Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] to provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary objectives in producing cost accounts are to provide : ( a ) The detailed information to determine the profit or loss on individual projects or an aspect of the company 's business transactions . |
| 2 | If local authorities are to provide less , then the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors will need to provide more . |
| 3 | They believe that a degree of privacy and understanding is essential if Their Royal Highnesses are to provide a happy and secure upbringing for their children , while continuing to give a wholehearted commitment to their public duties . |
| 4 | Units were to provide local solutions to local problems . |
| 5 | SCOTTISH Homes is to provide £4 million in extra grants for the management of community care initiatives , the agency announced yesterday . |
| 6 | The method used in all modern computers is to provide a " subroutine call " ( or " link " ) instruction , which jumps to a specified store location and saves the value of the program counter , to enable control to be returned from the subroutine . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the best way to raise standards in our schools is to provide more testing and to make the results of those tests publicly available — both of which the Labour party opposes ? |
| 8 | In Robert Robson 's view , Mayfest 's main functions are to provide a platform for major Scottish work , to play host to quality work from overseas and to celebrate community initiatives . |
| 9 | Two of the rigs were to provide transport for the ordinary sect members , after their release . |
| 10 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 11 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 12 | The function of fiduciary duties is to provide the courts with standards of review that enable them to guarantee that corporate managers do not act outside the limits of their special competence . |
| 13 | For others , governments are to provide the main resources for and be the principal actors in public communication . |
| 14 | A second use of the study of hoards is to provide information about the quantity of coins put into circulation ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 15 | The aim of the awards is to provide candidates with evidence in the form of certificates to show that they are proficient in the skills necessary for them to operate in a business environment in at least 2 European languages . |
| 16 | Apart from providing a mechanism for the transmission of payments , the other important role of the banks is to provide financial intermediation . |
| 17 | The grazier 's main problems are to provide leys of palatable and nutritious grasses and clovers and to see that these are consumed in the lush , leafy state before they grow to stem and seed . |
| 18 | The aims are to provide data that is not currently available about the earliest stages of diabetic eye disease , and enable a reassessment of the screening strategies that are currently used by GPs and optometrists for detecting the condition . |
| 19 | Aims are to provide an opportunity for industry and the University to meet , and assess each other 's needs , and for industry to find out what we are doing . |
| 20 | Local firms were to provide the skills in political manoeuvring , multinationals the technology and the state to supply the institutions and the arena in which to forge a common set of goals to unite the alliance and manage the national economy . |
| 21 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 22 | An alternative to the gathering of ewes for these treatments is to provide anthelmintic incorporated in a feed or energy block during the periparturient period . |
| 23 | Among the Board 's principal aims is to provide the leadership that can negotiate a further reduction in betting tax to help put racing on a firm financial footing . |
| 24 | The principal aim of this national survey of these small businesses is to provide previously unavailable data regarding the nature of their operating efficiency , staffing , and potential training needs , in order to identify strategies for improving performance . |
| 25 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 26 | The usual function for these wheels is to provide power for auxiliary equipment such as a saw-bench , apple crusher etc , but in this case , the system also worked in reverse . |
| 27 | When the Forum for Educational Research in Scotland was inaugurated in 1986 , one of the aims was to provide a way in which teachers and others working in education could contribute to the identification of priorities for educational research . |
| 28 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 29 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
| 30 | We are convinced that the philosophy which was originally intended to predominate in the post-war UK child care legislation — namely that the work of public agencies was to provide supportive services to families , part of which could include admission to care as a means ultimately of preserving family relationships in the long run — has been lost from current practice . |