Example sentences of "to provide [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To provide foundations for the walls , we formed a toe around the outside , 75mm deeper and a shovel width ( like a moat ) , and skimmed off the sharp corner . |
| 2 | It was also to incorporate the sabra or prickly pear , the cactus which is a symbol of Israel , to provide hope for the future not only for Jews but also for all the persecuted people of the world . |
| 3 | The decoy system was once used to provide birds for the table . |
| 4 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |
| 5 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 6 | The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 8 | At the conclusion of the programme , the Minister of Conservation will reassess the regulations required to provide protection for the downunder dolphin . |
| 9 | In the end the police decided not to seek to ban the march but to police the route and to provide protection for the marchers against the violence which had been threatened by opposing factions . |
| 10 | There were also reports of clashes between troops and localized vigilante groups established to provide protection against the activities of Duvalierist supporters . |
| 11 | So , from their viewpoint , management 's job is to use the factors at its disposal to provide returns to the shareholders , but also to provide returns to employees . |
| 12 | Funds from the IMF and the World Bank , needed by the government to provide part of the collateral , would also be jeopardized if Brazil missed a second consecutive set of quarterly targets under its IMF-approved economic programme [ see pp. 38719-20 for terms of January IMF agreement ] . |
| 13 | Pre-dating the National Health Service by over thirty years , in 1916 the Venereal Disease Regulations were passed instructing all local health authorities to provide clinics for the diagnosis and treatment of the venereal diseases . |
| 14 | They had their work cut out in simply trying to provide defences against the incursions of cattle raiders from the North Tyne valley , over Bewcastle Waste , or through that tract of the western fringe so unsure of its ownership that it was known as the Debatable Land ; and their own people were themselves frequently as unruly as their enemies . |
| 15 | The London governors were by now contemplating extreme measures but they could not persuade the Royal Agricultural Society of England to provide support of the kind Dick was getting in Scotland and their veiled threats in the petition were likewise unsuccessful . |
| 16 | At Straiton , however , a combination of the grout injection method and the placing of a heavy-duty geotextile membrane at rockhead level was used to provide support to the road embankment over the limestone and Pentland oil shale workings . |
| 17 | A constructed exchange control index is used to provide support for the hypothesis that financial deregulation has provided a boost to foreign portfolio investment . |
| 18 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 19 | The Indians attempted to provide support against the LTTE by arming and training a Tamil National Army ( TNA — a coalition of three pro-IPKF Tamil militias ) . |
| 20 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
| 21 | The local authority may also be able to provide literature on the subject if your Home is run by one . |
| 22 | Sheringham finally completed his move from Nottingham Forest yesterday and will be out to provide Spurs with the firepower that has been missing since Gary Lineker left . |
| 23 | The team , led by Margit Laimer , injected a gene into apricot tree cells which earlier work had shown to provide resistance to the plum pox virus which causes Sharka disease affecting , among others , apricots , peaches and plums . |
| 24 | There is no Building Control requirement to provide toilets for the public , but if they are provided , then at least one must be suitable for use by the disabled . |
| 25 | Quarterly returns allow the CIA to monitor trade in these substances and to provide data for the Department of Trade and Industry , the Home Office and Customs & Excise . |
| 26 | The manpower database for each health authority should be able to provide data on the number of staff residing in each location of the staff catchment area . |
| 27 | The nearest McIntosh comes to direct criticism is when he says : ‘ What we are trying to do is to provide clients with the services that they want and I think that will be the difference . |
| 28 | The main aim of this chapter is to provide guidelines for the introduction of a microcomputer into the school library or the extension of microcomputer work involving microcomputers in the school library and in the classroom . |
| 29 | Fairburn had a busy quarrying industry at one time , and to provide transportation of the stone from the quarries to the River Aire a tramway was constructed early in the nineteenth century to link up with a short section of canal to the river . |
| 30 | The UK government was said also to have agreed to provide aid for the repatriation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan . |