Example sentences of "to provide [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decoy system was once used to provide birds for the table . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The UKCC has failed in its organisation of the election to provide candidates with the opportunity to address their constituency . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The government was urged to provide funds for the training of staff and additional support for dealing with the more difficult pupils . |
| 9 | Secondary surveillance radar has made it very much easier to provide recordings of the radar situation at any time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Much pressure can overtly or unwittingly be put on grown up children , to provide grandchildren for the delight of the grandparents . |
| 12 | The jumble of different contents suggests a double motive in keeping the book : to remind him of past happiness and to provide ideas for the future . |
| 13 | Thus , we could begin to provide statements of the form " The greater the X , the greater the Y " , " A's are associated with B's " , " Q is inversely related to P " , and so on : statements which would be supported by , and indeed describe , quantitative relationships . |
| 14 | The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence . |
| 15 | It is a Baconian view , rather than an Einsteinian view ; students have a strong faith in the capacity of physics to provide explanations of the way the world works . |
| 16 | An expert system , in basic terms , contains three main elements : a knowledge-base ( rules and facts provided by experts ) , an inference engine ( a computer program which manipulates the knowledge-base and applies it to a particular problem ) and a user interface to make the system " user-friendly " and to provide explanations of the reasoning adopted and advice given by the expert system . |
| 17 | The aims of this first chapter are : first , to provide pointers to the nature of the experience with which these writers were concerned and an approach through which the sympathetic but uninformed reader of our own time might be able to respond to it ; second , to clarify those aspects of the medieval cultural context which particularly governed the mode of expression of these writers and , importantly , the expectations of their readers . |
| 18 | The 1992 programme seeks to tighten up the public purchasing process so as to provide businesses with the prospect that in practice , rather than theory , the whole of the EC market is truly open to their competitive offers . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman must recognise that we have not given a commitment to establish a funding council : we simply gave a commitment to provide powers for the Secretary of State to do so . |
| 20 | On July 14 the Congress had requested the US government to provide details of the type and number of US troops active in the country , with figures on those acting on community development programmes and anti-drugs operations respectively . |
| 21 | Please would you supply details of exactly what you sent to District Audit as , I understood I was supposed to provide details of the Parish Council bank accounts and copies of the bank statements at the audit on 7th May 91 . |
| 22 | Second , remember to provide details of the font you want , the System you use , software version number and , if possible , a laser proof . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) See note to s.08 regarding the requirement to provide meals with the sale of alcohol and what constitutes a " meal . " |
| 24 | Regan makes no attempts to provide answers for the complex and difficult questions which would confront us . |
| 25 | The research aims to bring to provide answers to the question ‘ How do we imitate what we see someone else do ? ’ |
| 26 | A one-mile link from Boathouse Bridge to the East Coast Railway bridge will connect with minor roads to provide routes from the centre of Edinburgh to the lanes of West Lothian and the Forth Road Bridge . |
| 27 | The industry is geared towards maximum use of the resource , short term profits , and foreign dollars , and overseas restaurants were keen to provide markets after the collapse of the Alaskan king crab fishery . |
| 28 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 29 | The current unit size , indicating the extent to which the complex object structure has been aggregated to provide results to the user , is indicated by the value for current.unit . |
| 30 | A need exists to provide pupils with the opportunity to use viewdata systems as part of their general education and to show pupils how use viewdata critically . |