Example sentences of "to provide [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 A SCOTLAND-WIDE effort to provide aid to the starving in the famine-stricken countries of Africa was begun yesterday by the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund , writes Gary Duncan .
32 Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day .
33 Jobs which are designed to give the worker autonomy will produce the experience of responsibility , and designing in mechanisms to provide feedback from the job provides knowledge of the actual results of the work activities .
34 The purpose of this section of the Personal Accident and Sickness manual is to clarify some of the ‘ grey ’ areas that can , and have , proved contentious in the past and to provide guidance for the handling of such situations in the future .
35 It is intended to provide guidance for the chemist or technician in the laboratory .
36 The UKCC has failed in its organisation of the election to provide candidates with the opportunity to address their constituency .
37 In return , the Bank has guaranteed always to provide funds to the houses if , either as a result of these purchases or as a result of the rest of the monetary sector demanding repayment , the houses should find themselves short .
38 The contras claimed that their action was intended to focus attention on the government 's failure to provide funds for the resettlement of former contras and their dependents .
39 The government was urged to provide funds for the training of staff and additional support for dealing with the more difficult pupils .
40 Secondary surveillance radar has made it very much easier to provide recordings of the radar situation at any time .
41 Such consent helps to provide uniformity among the police forces when considering prosecuting for an offence which can be committed in so many different ways and for so many different reasons .
42 Their symbolic political struggle is in defence of a cultural order in which there exist strong moral rules to provide solutions to the problems of the appropriate constituents and roles of the family .
43 Friends of Elizabeth Patterson have contributed handsomely to the Fund in her memory , one object of which is to provide books for the Library on the History of Science .
44 The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm .
45 Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways .
46 We will continue to develop new innovation schemes for small and medium-sized businesses , including the highly-regarded SPUR programme to provide help with the development of new products and processes .
47 These ‘ others ’ comprise housing workers , people skilled in developing and supervising work and other forms of daily occupation , welfare benefits negotiators , domestic care staff to provide help in the home and with personal care , teachers , counsellors and sympathetic listeners , people willing to act as befrienders and companions and , finally , responsive general practice services .
48 Conscious of their responsibilities as landlords the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry determined to provide assistance for the people of the area .
49 The Accommodation Service is available to provide assistance during the vacation periods as well as during term-time .
50 ‘ We won the £25,000 contract in competitive bidding through the Overseas Development Agency as part of the UK Know-How fund which has been set up to provide assistance to the countries of Eastern Europe .
51 However , if your elderly parent has no telephone and neither of you can pay for one , you should contact the local authority social services department , who are empowered to provide assistance towards the cost or , in some cases , free telephones for disabled housebound elderly people and others , under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 , although the extent of need is determined by the local authority in the light of resources .
52 ‘ It is unlikely that the store could be operational before around 1990 but it should be available in time to provide flexibility to the timing of the reprocessing plants that will be needed in succession to THORP . ’
53 It can also be a tool of social and economic policies to help the aged , the homeless , single-parent families and the handicapped to obtain housing , as well as to provide flexibility in the attraction of key workers .
54 Much pressure can overtly or unwittingly be put on grown up children , to provide grandchildren for the delight of the grandparents .
55 Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy .
56 Pinochet , C.-in-C. of the Army , speaking before 1,500 officers at Santiago 's Military Academy on March 29 , described the report as having no " historical or legal validity " and opposed government plans to provide compensation for the families of the victims of repression .
57 Coupled with attempts to provide compensation for the victims of crime , they represent an attractive package to a public deeply concerned with crime .
58 By the late tenth century the coronation service included a royal promise to provide peace for the nation , to forbid wrongdoing , and to guarantee just judgements , all matters referred to elsewhere in the service too .
59 Funding from OBAT ( Outer Belfast Action Team ) has been used to provide equipment for the centre as a community facility .
60 teachers in ‘ feeder ’ middle schools were invited to read the study and two schools subsequently redesigned their humanities course to provide continuity with the curriculum at Sir Frank Markham ;
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