Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | 20 miles of cable will provide 1 000 000 watts of light and 24 kilowatts of sound … for the first ever Wiltshire Festival at Lydiard Park in Swindon . |
| 2 | Conservation groups and the Labour Party fear that privatisation of the Commission 's 900,000 hectares of woodland would provide less public access and weaken the drive for " sensitive forestry " . |
| 3 | Leavis believed that English was concerned with central moral issues and the study of literature could provide some opposition to the dehumanizing effects of modern industrial society . |
| 4 | The identification of the ’ theme ’ or subject area of a passage of text can provide valuable information concerning the likely semantic content of that passage . |
| 5 | A single pound of uranium , it was claimed , could produce the same energy as a thousand tons of coal , whilst a hundred tons of uranium could provide all the electricity that the country could possibly need . |
| 6 | Half a pint of skimmed milk provides just 100 calories , while other kinds of milk can provide twice this number . |
| 7 | The principle of analogy will provide a reasonably secure framework for interpretation for the hearer and for the analyst most of the time . |
| 8 | A FOOTPRINT in a pool of blood could provide the key to the brutal murder of a 99-year-old widow . |
| 9 | For example , a questionnaire designed to investigate attitudes towards work may provide respondents with a list of statements indicating a point of view to which they have to express a level of agreement or disagreement ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 10 | If a person suffers loss or damage as a result of a defect in some product , whether it be hardware or software , one or more of the following areas of law might provide a remedy : |
| 11 | The pharmacokinetics of morphine may provide at least part of the explanation , but there are too few data to justify the editorial 's subheading ( morphine-3-glucuronide does not , by the way , bind to opiate receptors ) . |
| 12 | The laws of war may provide one possible means ( though not the only one ) of achieving this difficult object . |
| 13 | Families in the rural areas or in the countries of emigration may provide financial assistance for some of their unmarried males to travel many hundreds of miles to seek employment . |
| 14 | The Department has published the results of trials which suggest that a single hectare of coppice can provide up to 15 tonnes of fuelwood every year — sufficient to heat a large farmhouse . |
| 15 | With one exception , no new categories of institution were to be created : the Regional Colleges of Education would provide opportunities for higher education and provide ‘ the seedbed for some further growth of institutions to university status ’ . |
| 16 | Two minutes of video can provide an hour of classroom work , or it can be used to introduce a change of activity for five minutes . |
| 17 | Furthermore , with carbonic anhydrase blocked there is not enough HCO production in the cell to provide one HCO per unitary charge of the observed uptake current , whereas dissociation of water could provide enough OH - to account for the current ( Fig. 3 legend ) . |
| 18 | A cup of black tea or black coffee contains no calories , but a cup of white tea or coffee with 2 teaspoons of sugar can provide up to 60 calories — and with an average of 6 cups per day , that could be 360 calories per day ! |
| 19 | ’ . It should come as no surprise , therefore , to find that a well-disciplined human body with clearly defined parameters of correctness will provide a symbolic mirror of the preferred police social formation in which the human condition can be enacted . |
| 20 | If some conception of the nature and dimensions of the relevant political community provides the framework for the operation of the doctrine , equally some conception of democracy must provide its substantive political content . |
| 21 | Both types of scale can provide advantages to only the largest players and lead to a concentration in the industry . |
| 22 | " It is n't , after all , as though we had any reason for not having them , because now that Amelia and Magnus and Gabriel are all married there 's plenty of room , and my parents are anyway worried , politically speaking if you know what I mean , about having so much empty house ( though he 's hardly the kind of tenant that that kind of consideration would provide ) , and he even pays some rent from time to time . |
| 23 | ‘ The University of Teesside will provide a focus for the further development of the cultural , social and economic life of the region . ’ |
| 24 | Commenting on Mr Keating 's argument that his country needed ‘ the unique and unambiguous identity ’ that an Australian head of state could provide , Mr Greenway said : ‘ That is a pathetic argument . |
| 25 | I hope that the Minister of State will provide information tonight that will assure the House that something positive will be done . |
| 26 | Furthermore , identification of the sources of happiness will provide a basis for understanding the duration of certain emotions in connection with particular events in life . |
| 27 | Higher levels of analysis can provide extra knowledge , both to aid detection of errors , and to make alternative suggestions for possible correction of a detected error . |
| 28 | Do n't worry too much about providing her with a healthy diet for the time being — the strangest combinations of food can provide an adequate intake of nutrients and children can be perfectly healthy on remarkably little . |
| 29 | A new theory holds that the level of unemployment may provide a key . |
| 30 | This type of program could provide a systematic approach to the game environment suggested in the other sections . |