Example sentences of "they provide a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it does pay you to be a member of R A C , National Breakdown , A A or whatever because at least most of them provide a service where they can take you to your destination and or arrange further transport for you . |
| 2 | For the Roman period , they provide a wealth of information about the names of festivals and magistracies , as well as the names of the people who held them . |
| 3 | They provide a way for a testator to secure some of the dispositions in his will even if the will fails and intestate succession ensues . |
| 4 | But classroom practice is not put at the service of the principles , designed to test them out ; conversely , the principles serve classroom practices in that they provide a way in which they may be more clearly understood and more systematically carried out . |
| 5 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 6 | They provide a way for Topic Criteria and more general processes to be assessed in context . |
| 7 | They provide a way in which the student can cover up his true self by finding a vocabulary acceptable to most people and a set of facts which are generally known among people generally considered to be generally educated . |
| 8 | Instead , he argues , they provide a tonic input to the cortical units that are processing input relayed by X-cells , modulating the activity of these units to improve the efficiency of visual processing . |
| 9 | The dictionaries and reference works devoted to surnames are useful to the local historian in that they provide a framework of knowledge on which more specific researches may be built . |
| 10 | An undoubted limitation of liability rules in promoting managerial efficiency is that while they provide a deterrent , they can not , unlike the market and market-linked devices , create a more positive motivational environment . |
| 11 | They provide a base for meetings , social events , the celebration of festivals . |
| 12 | They provide a kind of basic emotional energy which we need in order to keep relationships alive , and to put energy into our life 's work . |
| 13 | The activities of the sbcC and sbcD gene products have not been determined , but the available evidence suggests that they provide a nuclease that disrupts palindromic DNA ( 6 , 7 ) . |
| 14 | The courses are powerful because they provide a link between the newcomers and the local indigenous population who find that working together can help them learn to influence the decision makers . ’ |
| 15 | If the Britons who were defeated by the Goths were the followers of Riothamus , they provide a date of 469 . |
| 16 | By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market . |
| 17 | They are forced to call in the help of the gods , and the first episode describes how they provide a companion and foil . |
| 18 | Their main virtue in this respect is their currency , since they provide a pointer to likely public demand ( much of it stemming from the reviews themselves ) . |
| 19 | they provide a structure for allocating responsibility for end-results . |
| 20 | Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance . |
| 21 | They provide a standard against which cleaning staff activities can be measured . |
| 22 | They provide a reference point and by comparing our behaviour with the reference point we can tell what adjustments are required . |
| 23 | The essence of these national schemes is that they provide a monitoring of the system as a whole and do not identify individual schools or students . |
| 24 | The Family Policy Studies Centre ( address on page 146 ) calls women carers ‘ the forgotten army ’ and says they provide a service which saves the government billions of pounds a year . |
| 25 | Fifty to eighty percent of my time goes to meetings , either with one of my engineers or in development meetings , or in planning functions , or — we have a series of meetings set up with this group since they provide a service to us — and oh , I do n't know — ten to twenty percent of my time [ is spent ] on the phone … and the rest of my time , either in filling out forms that I have to fill out or thinking , sometimes . |
| 26 | They provide a diversity of colour and shape not encountered in any other group of coldwater fish . |
| 27 | Because one of the commitments I hope John er may have told you on the phone , one of the parts of the contract we have with G A is that they provide a list of businesses . |
| 28 | They provide a set of descriptive categories , many of which are similar to some of those presented by Tough . |
| 29 | They provide a context within which to understand the beliefs and practices of the Bangladeshi and Welsh mothers : this in turn allows practices — potential risk factors or protective factors — to be identified . |
| 30 | While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance . |