Example sentences of "provides a good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracting for other parts of the group , and even other manufacturers , provides a good half of the company 's income , and , just as importantly , enables it to invest in a high level of machinery which could not be justified for the volatile business of light aircraft manufacturing alone . |
| 2 | The operating profit of £23 million reflects the underlying trend of a sound business and provides a good base on which to build , he says . |
| 3 | It also provides a good base for later phases of the New OED Project . |
| 4 | Its attractive foliage provides a good backdrop to later flowering plants in the border . |
| 5 | The process provides a good opportunity for correlating economic change with patterns of crime . |
| 6 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 7 | It provides a good contrast to more elaborate music . |
| 8 | The value of the modulus provides a good indication of the state of the polymer and can be obtained from the curve . |
| 9 | It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints . |
| 10 | Our view of the value of very further provides a good explanation for its otherwise puzzling absence following indefinite articles : ( 26 ) this is a very oak in which King Charles hid after the battle ( 27 ) walking into the bakery , I met some very men If very did indeed qualify some aspect of the following noun ( sense or referent ) , the contrast of grammatical status between ( 27 ) and ( 19 ) would be quite puzzling . |
| 11 | This type of survey provides a good guide to a build-up of recognition of a product , and some measure of what the advertising is achieving . |
| 12 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 13 | The event also provides a good time for parents to see evidence of the caring nature of the school and gain a flavour of the ethos and quality of relationships . |
| 14 | Apart from the simple work of recovery , Lonsdale provides a good deal of new biographical information about the poets , and , perhaps most importantly , his long introduction provides a comprehensive history of women poets through the century . |
| 15 | The argument is that it therefore provides a good basis for a fair and orderly grading structure . |
| 16 | The advantage of this sort of work is that the descriptions of cellular mechanisms are very detailed and this provides a good basis for determining whether the same cellular mechanisms are available in mammals . |
| 17 | The general SVQ provides a good breadth of understanding . |
| 18 | It has to be closely supervised but provides a good job for any adult who might be feeling somewhat self-conscious . |
| 19 | The par-four 14th provides a good example of how difficult the flag position can make a hole . |
| 20 | One recent case provides a good example of unlawful appeal procedure . |
| 21 | However , the sequence of somite formation and what they will form seems to be programmed early in development long before the somites themselves appear and provides a good example of how , once the programme is specified , the cells follow it even when they are placed in abnormal relationships . |
| 22 | The period between Johnson 's demise in 1916 and the rise of Ali , provides a good example of how reflective sport can be . |
| 23 | The exploration of clients ' adaptations provides a good example of this before and after' approach . |
| 24 | Again , the US , where concern over the concentration of economic power is most strong , provides a good example of this sort of regulatory measure . |
| 25 | The Unidroit Convention on International Financial Leasing provides a good example of all three cases . |
| 26 | Hardy provides a good example of a wider kind of practical response to a perceived shift of " taste " , and with the need to develop forms of English teaching of sufficient flexibility to be extended beyond the traditional narrow student elite . |
| 27 | Voltaire provides a good example of the way in which the philosophy of rationality implied a theory of irrationality , which was based upon psychological ideas about the source of erroneous thought . |
| 28 | The evolution of state education during the nineteenth century provides a good example of a series of ad hoc responses . |
| 29 | Pettigrew 's ( 1973 ) study of the implementation of a computer network in a large retailing firm provides a good example of group solidarity amongst employed professionals . |
| 30 | However , not all teachers found curriculum-specific organization easy to implement or operate , and it provides a good example of a practice commended in the name of ‘ flexibility ’ which makes the work of some teachers less , rather than more , flexible ( a tension which emerges in research elsewhere — Alexander 1988 ) . |