Example sentences of "provided a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottinghamshire based Delahunty Associates has always provided a diverse service of sports reporting but now sees its role in tennis , in particular , developing . |
| 2 | THE GREEN bandwagon has provided a fillip for many companies concerned with tackling environmental problems . |
| 3 | This is seen particularly in the USA , where the very large domestic market has provided a safe haven for many companies of substantial size . |
| 4 | This declaration proved to be premature , although a recommendation that there should be a longer term for the candidate stage towards full party membership must have provided a useful mechanism for sifting the wheat from the chaff . |
| 5 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 6 | Substantial foreign aid had helped ; weather conditions seemed likely to give good crop yields , and the early returns of the spring harvest had provided a new supply of food . |
| 7 | His Future of Socialism in 1956 had provided a point of reference for the party , and progressives throughout the nation , over the past twenty years with its emphasis on social equality rather on public ownership as the instrument of change . |
| 8 | The Association can be justly proud of this project which has provided a fitting memorial for Lord Dowding and a long term investment in much needed welfare accommodation . |
| 9 | At this point it is difficult not to be drawn back towards the work of Anthony Quinton , who has provided a helpful model of the basic Conservative claims to political wisdom . |
| 10 | In the last fifteen years successive laws have provided a continuing escalation in racism , irrespective of the government which brought them in . |
| 11 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 12 | Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 13 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 14 | The occasional beachings of pilot whales must have provided a welcome source of protein . |
| 15 | In many ways , the St Lawrence belugas have provided a perfect opportunity for scientists to study the effects of contaminants on a wild whale population , since they are isolated from other groups , and live in a river system known to be contaminated . |
| 16 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 17 | These were items buried with their princely owners , male and female ; the Celts , in a touch worthy of Obelix , also provided a whole roasted boar and a sharp carving-knife . |
| 18 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 19 | Stability had not provided an increase in the number of occupational pensioners , but it had provided a secure environment for the lucky half of the nation who were covered . |
| 20 | Much earlier still , potassium-argon dating has provided a chronological framework for the early hominid finds in East Africa . |
| 21 | It may have provided a perfect ‘ apprenticeship ’ for building a movie empire . |
| 22 | Farmers ' ingenuity in designing new bits of farm machinery and modifying existing tackle has always provided a rich source of features for this magazine . |
| 23 | The beauty , variety and good nature of these wonderful plants has provided a marvellous educational experience at our village school . |
| 24 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 25 | It was a category , a catch-phrase , a summation ; and it also provided a mild but pleasing joke because it used ‘ government ’ to refer to its absence , and because the arabi ( ‘ people 's government ’ ) of tradition contrasted with the sha bi ( ‘ people 's government ’ ) of the present regime , seen in this context to be the opposite of what real people 's government ought to be . |
| 26 | We 've provided a grammar school education for the people of this area for 700 years and intend to go on doing so . ’ |
| 27 | Admittedly , in recent years , top coaches such as ‘ Chalkie ’ White at Leicester and Alan Davies at Nottingham has provided a focus and created a centre of excellence which has attracted players but I am not so sure that the same parameters still apply . |
| 28 | Since its launch , it has provided a base line for studying global warming . |
| 29 | As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him ! |
| 30 | In so doing he has provided a book which has been a tremendous help to pastors in every generation since , up to and including the present day . |