Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ecu link may provide a firmer anchor for inflationary expectations . |
| 2 | If a school can tailor its in-house courses and make them relevant to the needs of the whole school staff , then the dynamics of that collective and shared experience may provide greater rewards . |
| 3 | The employer , or the architect on his behalf , for certain sections of a contract may provide a list , in or attached to the contract bills , of at least three sub-contractors from which the builder must select one able and willing to carry out the respective work . |
| 4 | The contract may provide that the obtaining of some or all of these consents is a condition to completion , waivable by the acquirer . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) A construction contract may provide for the determination by |
| 6 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 7 | Other procedural clauses may restrict the evidence which can be used in support of a claim : for instance , a contract may provide that a certificate of quality by an inspector or surveyor shall be conclusive evidence that goods conform to the contract ; or that " failure to notify the sellers of any defects or shortages within three days shall be conclusive evidence that the goods were in conformity with the contract in all respects " ; or even that " acceptance of the goods shall be conclusive evidence of their conformity with the contract " . |
| 8 | Patients bleed from large submucosal veins within the small bowel and although surgical excision of the affected segment may provide long term relief , recurrent bleeding can occur as further adhesions are formed . |
| 9 | Assessment may provide the foundations for an intervention programme because it describes an individual 's strengths and weaknesses , irrespective of the presumed underlying causes of those difficulties . |
| 10 | I have considered this previously in the context of necessity , and have suggested that necessity may provide an adequate ground for ignoring such a request . |
| 11 | Central nervous system regulation of hepatic function may provide a mechanism by which bile production is integrated with other metabolic activities particularly , digestive functions . |
| 12 | The experience should provide a general introduction to the world of work and the opportunity to begin self-awareness of the individual 's skills , aptitudes and interests in relation to work . |
| 13 | The supplementary guidance to our terms of reference notes that ‘ the curriculum should provide equal opportunities for boys and girls . ’ |
| 14 | A layer of peat and gravel , or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium . |
| 15 | If it is necessary for the expatriate couple to learn a new language , the course should provide them with details on where they might go or the steps they should take to achieve this . |
| 16 | Thus , in producing a narrative , the writer must provide some indications of change of time and place , as Grimes ( 1975 : 102 ) has pointed out . |
| 17 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 18 | Designed unfashionably from the inside out ( Erskine remains a committed Modernist ) , the building should provide some of the most relaxed office space in London . |
| 19 | people should be encouraged to make provision for themselves and their families , and state support should provide a safety net for the very poor , without stifling private initiative and self-help . |
| 20 | The workshops mentioned later in the chapter may provide a hub for the self-directed learning by basing them on the problem(s) . |
| 21 | Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird . |
| 22 | A domain-specific dictionary may provide good performance within its own particular domain , but outside this its performance is brittle and inflexible . |
| 23 | Alternatively , the statute may provide for the reasonable practicability of precautions . |
| 24 | The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme . |
| 25 | At one extreme , an encoder may provide only a bibliographic identification of the text . |
| 26 | This usually means little pruning and , potentially even more serious , since large problems frequently have to be terminated before they have been completely solved to avoid excessive computation time , frontier search may provide no solution at all . |
| 27 | This is perhaps one of the few areas in which more research may provide genuinely useful insights for more realistic conservation programmes . |
| 28 | In general , dementia can not yet be treated , though research may provide some form of treatment before long . |
| 29 | This simplifying assumption may turn out to be incorrect — future psycholinguistic research may provide evidence that different lexicons are involved in the perception and production of language , or that different lexicons are involved in the processing of spoken and written language — but at present there are no good reasons for rejecting the simplifying assumption of a single mental lexicon . |
| 30 | Finally , there is a growing consensus ( epitomised by the Clothier committee report ) that it is ethical to use gene therapy in a variety of somatic ways , but not in gametes or embryos , and indeed that gene therapy may provide a new general enabling technology for protein and drug delivery as well as for gene therapy through the entry of normal genes . |