Example sentences of "[conj] to provide [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 2 | Or to provide development capital where your expansion may be limited by the fact that you are nearing the limit of what you can raise by other conventional means . |
| 3 | These caring visits could be by neighbours , friends or relatives , whose visits could be to check that the sufferer was all right , to give emotional support , or to provide help with personal or household tasks . |
| 4 | Here again the standing orders , which prohibit proposals to raise taxation or to provide relief if this would mean that other taxes would have to be raised , limit debate to general proposals about overall rates of VAT , supertax and corporation tax . |
| 5 | It is very important that a particular report can be found quickly , even after years ; it might be needed to establish some point or to provide evidence in an argument or court case . |
| 6 | There will be the customary banquet and Ladies ' programme and companies wishing to exhibit or to provide sponsorship may still do so . |
| 7 | Machinery and money are available to lay drains in fields or to provide irrigation water so that crops grow successfully . |
| 8 | There is no attempt , for example , to design-in the ability to run minibus services on direct routes through housing areas to give door-based service , or to focus foot- and cycle-ways on bus stops , or to provide cycle facilities and shelter at bus stops , and so on . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) The offeror may wish to use the assets of the target to help pay for the bid or to provide security for the offeror 's borrowings . |
| 10 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 11 | Some of them were out to show that they could achieve good quality community care at a lower cost than hospitals , or to provide community care which was at least no more expensive than a hospital . |
| 12 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it proposed no changes in the law of libel , other than to provide redress to victims of untrue statements which were not defamatory . |
| 15 | Efforts were being made to develop the country 's substantial water resources , both for export and to provide electricity , through the Highlands Water Project [ see p. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 16 | Use the glazed cupboards to display attractive china and to provide storage space for attractively packaged dry goods . |
| 17 | The in-house solicitor is often expected to tackle virtually anything , from a multi-million pound project to a minor disciplinary employment issue , and to provide cost effective , commercially attractive and legally correct solutions to problems . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To allow the hot water to expand as it heats up , an expansion vessel is fitted ( together with an expansion relief valve in case the vessel should fail ) , and to provide protection against overheating three levels of safety must be built in — thermostat , energy cut-out and temperature/ pressure relief valve . |
| 20 | The sports and leisure accident plan offer two levels of cover for injury during leisure time — standard or premium — with the option to include particularly hazardous sports and to provide cover for cardmembers ' spouses . |
| 21 | These churches were built in honour of God and to provide shelter and succour in times of need . |
| 22 | The real solution therefore is to constri construct an orbital relief road system so as to reduce traffic flows in the towns and to provide scope for implementation of a balanced package of transportation measures within the urban area . |
| 23 | These overseers were empowered to levy local rates , to set the poor on work , to apprentice poor children and to provide relief in the form of clothes , food , fuel and rents for the ‘ lame , impotent , old , blind , and such other among them being poor and not able to work ’ . |
| 24 | Local programmes to help old people view their homes from the point of view of accident prevention and to provide assistance in remedying problems could form a vital part of a preventive strategy which would tackle a commonplace but nonetheless highly significant element in the risks of community care . |
| 25 | This would include commitments by industrialized countries to cut carbon dioxide emissions , and to provide assistance to third-world states to do the same . |
| 26 | Others sip nectar during their brief lives to renew their energies and to provide sustenance for egg production , but none need to feed in order to build their bodies ; their growth has come to an end . |
| 27 | The obligation to provide free school milk and to provide school meals was removed , allowing LEAs to provide milk or meals or not as they wished , at whatever cost or standard they chose ( including free milk or meals , if they wished , for families on low incomes ) , apart from a responsibility to provide free meals for children of families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement , and to provide facilities free of charge for pupils to eat food brought from home . |
| 28 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 29 | This chapter has examined the responsibilities of salespeople , i.e. to gain sales , to prospect for new customers , to maintain customer records and provide information feedback , to manage their work , to handle complaints , and to provide service . |
| 30 | The essence of a ‘ contrat de programme ’ or ‘ contrat d'entreprise ’ is that a state enterprise agrees to achieve targets for economic performance , physical output , productivity , quality of service , and so on in return for a commitment from the government to provide necessary finance , and to provide compensation for obliging the enterprise to undertake non-commercial activities in the public interest ( Durupty 1986b : 357–96 ) . |