Example sentences of "[conj] it provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a child or adult lacks the ability to deal with lactose , the sugar passes through into the intestine , where it provides a bonanza for waiting bacteria . |
| 2 | Second , as the stores fill up , their buffering capacity will be reduced , thus leading to a pacemaker elevation of cytosolic calcium ( Fig. 4 b ) , which often appears at a specific initiation site where it provides the trigger to detonate the process of CICR ( Fig. 4 , step c ) . |
| 3 | The company is contracted to look after engines at two big RAF bases , where it provides unscheduled attention beyond the scope of routine maintenance . |
| 4 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 5 | Although it is an intense period of development and although it provides the basis of values , attitudes , and feelings — as well as darker things like repressions and obsessions — that may last a lifetime , it soon passes . |
| 6 | Supporters say that although it provides vital support for millions , Oxfam has hardly any effect on the real causes of poverty and illness . |
| 7 | But Nagel himself is content to take for granted that other creatures do have experiences , and he does not require of an objective phenomenology that it provide a philosophical proof of this presupposition . |
| 8 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 9 | What I did n't discover until recently was that it provides a bonus for organic gardeners . |
| 10 | Donald Davie has suggested that one reason for the explosion of theory is that it provides ‘ a stamping ground for the innumerable people in departments of English ( also of French , of German , of Classics ) who have energy and intelligence but no literary sensibility . ’ |
| 11 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 12 | A third role of sleep is that it provides an opportunity for the growth and repair of tissues . |
| 13 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 14 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |
| 15 | Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty . |
| 16 | One advantage of accepting this conclusion is that it provides , with its assumption that the context can act as a retrieval cue , a ready account of the various contextual effects discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 3 . |
| 17 | The revision phase of the operation differs from the initial phase in that it takes account of weaknesses ( and strengths ) inherent in the stock from previous years ' book buying , and also in that it provides indications of the need for weeding the stock of individual categories , in addition to purchasing . |
| 18 | And a wet carpet still does the job it was meant for , which also includes the fact that it provides a soft base on which to unhook fish , preventing to a great extent the removal of mucous and damage to scales and fins . |
| 19 | Since its inception in the early 1970s , genetic engineering has been welcomed as a major scientific breakthrough because of the potential that it provides to manipulate organisms from the most simple life-forms , such as bacteria , to the most complex , including Homo sapiens sapiens . |
| 20 | Biotechnology is widely applied in the treatment of industrial effluents and sewage and reference has already been made , in section 6.3.2 , to the potential that it provides for the denitrification of water intended for domestic consumption . |
| 21 | To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service ) |
| 22 | The advantage of this arrangement is that it provides an efficient means of defence against predators . |
| 23 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
| 24 | What is more , although the quantity for the day looks relatively modest in dry state , once it is mixed with milk you will find that it provides two good and satisfying servings . |
| 25 | The comprehensive range of facilities that it provides makes it possible for you to create patterns for all of these popular garment shapes , to suit your own individual tensions and measurements . |
| 26 | ‘ But the real danger of cocaine , ’ Robin-Anne continued softly , ‘ is that it provides ecstasy , Mr Breakspear . ’ |
| 27 | All that we ask is that it provides public answers to the question most people in this country are asking . |
| 28 | The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated . |
| 29 | The rationale for trying to obtain verbatim records of children 's speech in naturalistic settings is that it provides the best indication of what language a child actually uses in ordinary , everyday settings . |
| 30 | The exhibition 's logic is more artistic than art-historical and it is the insight that it provides into the majestic statement and the creative response which so engages the viewer 's attention . |