Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] provide " in BNC.

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1 I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to .
2 As my friend say , we did provide them facilities like the Port of Kuwait for the incoming foodstuff and material which Iraqui needed came through our ports and through our roads to their erm to Bahrain to Baghdad .
3 We do provide high-quality mugs and T-shirts to print on but an operative is welcome to buy from cheaper competition if they can find it . ’
4 Well as I say I mean we 're doing very well and all the money and , and you know , ninety percent of the money comes out of the the er the members ' pockets really I mean ev even the sub for the open show , we put out a lot of that even the stuff and things like this , so we do provide an awful lot of money .
5 And we do provide you with sales literature to say well actually strange to say but it has gone up recently it is only fifty eight pounds a week .
6 Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need .
7 Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation .
8 it was not relevant that the insurer was prepared to make a payment in the event that they did provide insurance cover .
9 The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children .
10 Nevertheless they do provide a rough scheme for organising the multitude of empirical facts concerning the growth of unions .
11 However , they do provide the reader with some indication of the growth and size of the overall market .
12 Compendia of information can not solve all the problems associated with mapping out one 's life , but they do provide basic and practical information .
13 As a first attempt the results are no doubt crude , but they do provide a basis for further refinement .
14 It is the latter which are relevant to the chemical-sensitive patient , and they do provide some interesting and revealing parallels .
15 Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ .
16 They may not be used routinely , but there certainly are circumstances in which they do provide assistance .
17 Although within Goody 's own terms they do provide a challenge to his claims for the consequences of a shift from oral to literate culture , they do not provide an unambiguous or ‘ scientific ’ starting point from which to test those claims .
18 In high winds there is always the fear that they will buckle or blow away , but , in their favour , they do provide very easy access to the seating and , for a change , you do get two of them .
19 In all Compacts , the Partnership will also need to monitor the jobs on offer to ensure that they do provide " added-value " as a reward for rising standards .
20 erm but they do provide a regular and safe income .
21 The obvious difficulty with behaviouristic accounts of mental states is that , although in a way they do provide what was wanted , i.e. an account of mental states in which they are non-contingently related to behaviour , still they appear to ignore everything that is characteristically mental .
22 Such headings are open to a number of objections ; nevertheless , they do provide an initial framework for thinking about curriculum and culture . ’
23 Despite the limitations of the official figures , they do provide some indication of the overall historical trends in the distribution of income .
24 Thus , even when they do provide employment to otherwise unemployed people , they do so primarily to unregistered part-time job seekers .
25 They do provide a rapidly accessed source of data and they can be a fruitful source of issues and hypotheses which should be explored in other ways .
26 And they do provide , er er h I mean I know we want an open society , but that 's ridiculous .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 But , failing that , they do provide a lot of visual fun for those who will tune in each week .
30 Training schemes do not guarantee a job , but they do provide necessary skills . ’
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