Example sentences of "it provided the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 2 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 3 | And as Nick Clark reports it provided the perfect platform for the Falcons from RAF Brize Norton . |
| 4 | It provided the perfect sanctuary and Mountbatten was always there with time and interest to talk and advise . |
| 5 | To have lost the 1987 election could be forgiven ; it provided the final catalyst for Labour 's long-drawn out policy reform . |
| 6 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 7 | Not simply was a market the only effective mechanism for the exchange of commodities and services in a large-scale modern society ; it was also the foundation of democracy , as it provided the economic independence that made a dictatorship impossible . |
| 8 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 9 | Yes , if it provided the additional flexibility |
| 10 | America lavished $1 billion on Liberia in the 1980s , partly because it provided the freed slaves who settled the country last century , mainly because Liberia gave a home to a Voice of America transmitter , a navigation beacon , a relay station for diplomatic communications , and a huge airfield where arms could be discreetly trans-shipped . |