Example sentences of "it [modal v] provide [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may provide protection for its members as with a trade union .
2 On the one hand , it may provide confirmation for the " hunches " or insights we have about style .
3 Not only does the technique have potential in the perfume industry , but it may provide clues about how we perceive smells .
4 If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary .
5 It should provide teaching ( which can itself be analysed into a number of more specific methods , functions and contingencies ; see Squires 1988 ) .
6 If the family wants complete peace of mind , it should provide Customs with all the facts once the new activity has started and ask for a written ruling .
7 They admit it 's expensive , but say that by sharing the aircraft between them it should provide value for money .
8 Clearly if AI is to have some role within avionics fault diagnostics it must provide systems with a wide range of capabilities .
9 It must provide opportunities for social rehabilitation
10 Here is a machine which has historical value for its very design , but in working order it might provide facilities to access data resources and insights into Soviet data processing not otherwise accessible .
11 One approach was to attempt to revise the idea of a liberal education so that it might provide guidance as to the proper application of science within society .
12 In different forms it could provide marriage market ( 21st birthday party or coming-out-ball ) , gynaecological information service ( women withdrew from male company at some point during the evening ) , a seasonal celebration of community spirit ( harvest home , yuletide ) or a mark of respect to a human life ( funeral , wake ) .
13 For the person with special needs it could provide clarity of presentation .
14 Kenya could encourage further ‘ dependent ’ exports , or it could provide assistance for local producers to gain the necessary skills .
15 If a castle acted as one of a related group it could provide defence in depth : an army could be inhibited from penetrating behind a group of castles by the threat to its communications which they provided , and the danger of attack from the rear .
16 However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered .
17 This general doctrine applied particularly to the Middle East because : ( 1 ) it lay on the route of any Soviet expansion into Africa ; ( 2 ) it could provide bases for a Soviet role in Africa ; ( 3 ) it formed a forward position for the defence of South Africa and India ; ( 4 ) it was a base for bombing the Soviet Union ; and ( 5 ) it was an area crucial for its oil resources .
18 The question of whether Fahreddin Acemi was teaching at the Darulhadis is not without importance , since if Mecdi 's statement is correct , it would provide evidence of a certain continuity in one of the distinctive functions of the later Muftilik , from the time of Ali Cemali on , namely that the Mufti taught in an important imperial medrese ( in the case of Ali Cemali and his successors , that of Bayezid II in Istanbul ) : it ought , of course , to be recalled In this connection that Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan may well , while Mufti , have been teaching at the Manastir ( Sultan Orhan ) medrese in Bursa .
19 The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing .
20 Computer 2000 's partner in Poland , DHI , had initially welcomed the decision , arguing it would provide resellers with an opportunity to recoup lost margins .
21 On Sept. 14 Japan announced that it would provide $2,000 million to the frontline states , $600 million of which would be sent immediately .
22 At the same time , it would provide variety in the work of residential carers , and give purpose to the daily encounters which would be less demoralising for all concerned .
23 It would provide space for expansion if necessary , although no increase to the 45 staff was currently planned .
24 Firstly , the Bank of England ceased to announce in advance the rate at which it would provide assistance .
25 It would provide homes for the homeless , hope for the hopeless .
26 Morag Gillespie of the Scottish Low Pay Unit argues that if the 1973 Employment of Children Act was properly implemented , it would provide uniformity throughout the UK and its results would hopefully limit the exploitation and abuse of children by their employers .
27 Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football .
28 Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed .
29 Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder .
30 Certainly this definition would cover the Croat units , which were more closely integrated with German forces than any other Yugoslav formations , and it would provide McCreery and Keightley with the authorization they required .
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