Example sentences of "provide [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Core holdings in large blue-chip companies that are infrequently traded provide them with a solid investor base and reduces share price volatility , whilst active trading and analysis of smaller company shares adds to the liquidity and marketability of these securities , and ensures accurate pricing .
2 So it seemed sensible to move into this area , take advantage of that for ourselves , and provide them with a better service .
3 Many bodies have stated that the grant aid procedures and the application form provide them with a ready basis for an effective budgeting system .
4 Furthermore , the idea of network impinges fairly closely on the notion of sociolinguistic functions , as we have presented this in chapter 2 , because it is a fundamental postulate of network analysis that individuals create personal communities that provide them with a meaningful framework for solving the problems of their day-to-day existence ( Mitchell 1986 : 74 ) .
5 Former Glamorgan player John Derrick struck an unbeaten 30 of 21 balls to see Wales safely home and provide them with the perfect tonic for their Nat West Trophy game with Sussex at Hove next Tuesday .
6 ‘ We must also fight for the interests of British business in world markets and provide them with the best environment in which they can compete and succeed . ’
7 When we provide theory , we provide them with the underlying rationale for methodology in general .
8 You then have to call an agency in order to obtain emergency relief , and they not only provide you with a temporary chef , but promise to send you details of all their head chefs currently seeking employment .
9 I provide you with a one inch to the mile map , and a box of matches each one inch long .
10 What do we charge for this service ? — generally nothing , as our costs are normally covered by commissions payable on business that we introduce but we provide you with a full statement of our Terms of Business before any transaction takes place .
11 They provide you with a short summary of the context to help you assess the tone of the extract .
12 I think you will have to treat yourselves to one of those records ( or , I suppose , tapes ) that provide you with an orchestral piece minus one instrument — for instance , I believe you could obtain a Beethoven concerto minus the piano part , which you then supply .
13 He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ .
14 These views , laid out primarily in The Constitution of Liberty and his three-volume work , Law , Legislation and Liberty , provide us with a powerful insight into the liberal theory of government and law .
15 But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years .
16 Recent developments of Darwinian theory provide us with a new and deeper understanding of the processes of natural selection .
17 Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image .
18 They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century .
19 Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere .
20 Turtles provide us with a different example .
21 The improvements in performance over the last two years provide us with a secure base from which to move forward .
22 The changes , which were taking place in the economy and society during the period of formative influence on the functionalist style , provide us with a further dimension to consider .
23 Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side .
24 Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education .
25 The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus .
26 Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform .
27 Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals .
28 Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper .
29 Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines .
30 As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances .
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