Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] provide " in BNC.

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31 And they do provide , er er h I mean I know we want an open society , but that 's ridiculous .
32 The first four counts are of limited use to the historian for they do not list individual households , but they do provide population figures on a township basis .
33 The gross statistics of variation do not , of course , tell us exactly when ( or why ) these changes of footing happened , but they do provide evidence that they took place .
34 But , failing that , they do provide a lot of visual fun for those who will tune in each week .
35 Training schemes do not guarantee a job , but they do provide necessary skills . ’
36 They have worked on the basis of service , and certainly the hoteliers I know erm and their American visitors erm have a strong and excellent relationship because they do provide the service .
37 They help provide tuition materials and college facilities for examination candidates and some run revision courses .
38 And they were not mistaken , for He did provide , and provide abundantly : quails and bread , ‘ and he that gathered much had nothing over , and he that gathered little had no lack ; they gathered every man according to his eating . ’
39 Nevertheless , it did provide a stepping stone for some significant figures .
40 It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades .
41 The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy .
42 Now , Muze magazine may not have been a high profile organisation but it did provide a much needed platform for the flourishing Manchester rock scene .
43 I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open .
44 That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones .
45 The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding .
46 Its justification was primarily military — a guarantee of aid in the face of any future German aggression and , for Britain , the beginnings of an alliance against the Soviet Union — though it did provide for bilateral economic assistance and cooperation , and , indeed , a standing economic committee was established .
47 While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 .
48 However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead .
49 The monkey was eaten up in the trees , and was half hidden by leaves , but it did provide the key shot for the closing sequence of the ‘ Hunting and Escaping ’ programme in The Trials of Life .
50 Unfortunately a concrete path , provided by the builders , had to be broken up ; but it did provide a hardcore base for the paving .
51 It does not explain all the peculiar initial conditions of the big bang ; but it does provide some rationale for conditions that otherwise have to be accepted as given .
52 It does provide much of the mechanicals for the Brava pick-ups , now labelled Vauxhall not Bedford , and doubtless will contribute in no small measure to Vauxhall 's new Frontera 4 × 4 due out in a month or two .
53 However , it does provide a unique guide to Leonardo 's inner self .
54 Such action does not determine what economic activities should be undertaken , but it does provide a framework for discovering and solving problems common to the community as a whole .
55 However it does provide a useful introduction to the origins of the Alcohol Education Course reported here .
56 After all , it does provide 135 bhp as opposed to only 114 bhp and yet gives better fuel economy .
57 Such a plan will inevitably be modified , but it does provide a framework on which to build .
58 Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding .
59 This does not necessarily ensure wide application of the research but it does provide various ‘ models ’ of development in different environments which increase the likelihood that , by identifying with one or another model , other schools adopt and adapt the work to suit their particular needs .
60 Mammal Ecology by M. J. Delany does not set out specifically to connect ecology with evolution but it does provide a great deal of information packed into its 150 pages .
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