Example sentences of "[verb] not provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time Cleveland did not provide . |
| 2 | These early Acts stemmed very largely from sanitary powers , and did not provide any financial assistance beyond powers of borrowing money . |
| 3 | However such farmers were necessarily exceptions within a farming community where shortening bush/fallow cycles were retained ; they did not provide a solution to the underlying problem . |
| 4 | It was plain that the existing accommodation — two classrooms separated by a half-glazed folding partition , a head teacher 's office and WC block — did not provide an arrangement that could be easily adapted to give convenient living space . |
| 5 | Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved . |
| 6 | The favourite illustration of a public good was the lighthouse : the conditions of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption were both met , and it was obvious that if governments did not provide lighthouses nobody would . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , his teammates did not provide much support ; Tavaré managed an incredibly laborious 42 but everyone else failed . |
| 8 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 9 | Television did not provide the same variety of stations as the radio : in Ajdabiya and Kufra the only accessible signals were broadcast from the state television station . |
| 10 | But it did not provide enough segregated schools and enough women teachers to educate the girls separately from the boys in all cases , and it did not have the strength to insist that girls should be educated in mixed schools by male teachers : most Libyan parents would have objected strongly to laws compelling mixed education . |
| 11 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 12 | Although the 1944 Act did not provide detailed prescription for complementary relationships it was clear from the 1943 Education Bill that the LEAs were to be given the responsibility and duty to secure the development of adult education , in consultation with the universities and voluntary bodies . |
| 13 | For a long time , though , not only was contact thought of as inappropriate and as transgressing the traditional image of adoption , but there was also the view that the Adoption Act did not provide for access or contact . |
| 14 | The Act did not provide a clear answer to this crucial question and it depended very much on the courts . |
| 15 | It did not provide compensatory payments . |
| 16 | As Scott later pointed out , he then reversed his usual argument that Gothic did not provide enough light , by explaining how difficult it was for the Speaker to control the sunlight coming through the windows of his house in the Houses of Parliament . |
| 17 | For many years the College did not provide pensions for members of staff , let alone dependents . |
| 18 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |
| 19 | Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire . |
| 20 | Unfortunately Dutch law did not provide equality of treatment in every respect for the subsidiaries of foreign parent companies — certain social security rules were not applicable to them . |
| 21 | They did not provide any basis for extending substantial credit to Berg . |
| 22 | It had to be modified in 1961 when it became clear that a minority holding did not provide a certain defence against a determined takeover , but Whitbread continued to retain minority holdings in a number of regional brewers , which enabled them to retain their independence . |
| 23 | However , critics claimed that this scheme did not provide sufficient funds to those in real need . |
| 24 | The organisers did not provide the right equipment for the Stourbridge band . |
| 25 | In countries where the onset of industrialisation came later ( as in Sweden ) increasing mechanisation and mass-production techniques , with easily learned and repetitive tasks , did not provide particular occupations with resources to construct powerful unions . |
| 26 | Even in the periods of local committee or society expansion , although the groups were intended to draw in supporters to the cause , their operation did not provide unambiguous evidence of the politics of popular mobilisation . |
| 27 | Even so , this did not provide sufficient manpower , together with that of France , to contain the German Army of millions of conscripted levies . |
| 28 | The Big Four provided the patterns of organisational structures and methodologies in an untried and untested industry , but they did not provide people . |
| 29 | Although Soler did not provide any comparative evidence , our data show the opposite pattern . |
| 30 | Needless to say , despite Lombroso 's commitment to ‘ science ’ , he did not provide any evidence to support this preposterous assumption , nor could he have done . |