Example sentences of "[adv] provided a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sawdust and bran mixture not only provided a soft base on which to rest the corpse but also acted as a sponge for exuded matter ; the side lining masked the bare wood ; the side-sheets assisted in the presentation of the corpse ; and the frill along the visible top edge formed a seal when the lid was screwed down and helped to keep it all airtight . |
| 2 | But religious language not only provided a link between different political constituencies , it offered a set of concepts , a rhetoric of resistance and a strength of moral certainty powerful enough to take on the weight of the medical and political establishment . |
| 3 | Georgia had long provided a cadre for the Social Democratic movement , and the Tiflis Soviet was of more substance than many in the region . |
| 4 | Spiders have long provided a classic example of sexual dimorphism in body size , and provide an ideal opportunity for empirical study . |
| 5 | It was , of course , immediately adopted by the extreme left , which had , indeed , long provided a powerful component of evolutionary thinking . |
| 6 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 7 | It tied together Britain and the Six and so provided a potentially strong European dimension within NATO . |
| 8 | The stone-floored basement was converted into a huge , communal changing room , one of the first of its kind , and Bernard thoughtfully provided a large leather armchair for bored husbands or partners . |
| 9 | The cliff , land and seascapes , the salmon nets , the flowers and grasses , the straggling village all provided a richness , a maelstrom almost , of subject matter . |
| 10 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 11 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 12 | Within the committee , each member took responsibility for the committee 's work in certain Major Project schools , and thus provided a link between the committee and those who were implementing the project on the ground . |
| 13 | Potentially democratic ideas thus provided a justification for rule by a propertied oligarchy . |
| 14 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 15 | The study of bureaucracy thus provided a perspective on the supply side of the governmental equation , complementing the analysis of political demands through the study of voting , legislative behaviour and pressure groups ( Jackson 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The topics associated with this information — such as local attitudes and local networks of relationships — generally provided a more than adequate conversational resource . |
| 17 | But dipping has already provided a source of enormous pleasure . |
| 18 | This campaign has already provided a foretaste of what John Major , stripped of power , is like . |
| 19 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 20 | The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] . |
| 21 | Abbey National already provided a receipt for mortgage monies ; and a practice rule could be introduced requiring a solicitor who expected to receive evidence of payment to report the matter if this were not forthcoming in a prescribed period . |
| 22 | So it is especially a matter for satisfaction that the signatories nevertheless provided a chapter in support of the specified objective . |
| 23 | With all the problems of section 56 funding , and the learning curves involved in the Government — required design-built-and-operate contract , as well as being the first new street tramway built in Britain since 1949 , Metrolink has nevertheless provided a focus and showcase for the large number of light rail schemes at present being developed . |
| 24 | The Rubber Bishops meanwhile provided a refreshing change . |
| 25 | Ella , who has provided much sterling work towards the infant GCR , and over many years since , celebrated her birthday on board the 15.00 hours departure from Loughborough Central on Saturday , July 4 , along with many of the ‘ grass-roots ’ of the membership , of Main Line Steam Trust , who had specially provided a cake , complete with candles , and many cards signed by well-wishers of the railway . |
| 26 | Nottinghamshire based Delahunty Associates has always provided a diverse service of sports reporting but now sees its role in tennis , in particular , developing . |
| 27 | Farmers ' ingenuity in designing new bits of farm machinery and modifying existing tackle has always provided a rich source of features for this magazine . |
| 28 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 29 | The coast at Shurton Bars shelves more gently to the sea than at many points farther west , and in the eighteenth century still provided a landing-place for infrequent trading vessels which brought coal from Wales for coastal lime-kilns and West Somerset hearths . |
| 30 | Seacombe councillor Janet Jackson said the ferries still provided a lifeline for many people who used them to travel to work and back . |