Example sentences of "[vb past] provide [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 2 | However , it did provide some valuable indications of what to expect in the races ahead . |
| 3 | But these concepts did provide some women with categories of self-definition around which to mobilize , negotiate and occasionally disrupt and claim as their own . |
| 4 | … for all those unfortunate and aged people the institution of the poor law did provide some genuine relief , especially in small communities where the poor were personally known and acknowledged to have a legitimate claim on the assistance of their neighbours . |
| 5 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |