Example sentences of "provide for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |
| 2 | They will want to be sure that you are prepared to give your time to care for the children , that you will provide for all their needs and take them out regularly , and that you really do like small children ! |
| 3 | Mr Laws submitted that ( 1 ) the expectation was that the doctor would in general provide for his patients a full-time service . |
| 4 | However , if a small company does n't provide for any one of these operations , it is unlikely that company can give its artists adequate service . |
| 5 | If sport was ‘ a good thing ’ , then the state should provide for it within the framework of the welfare state along with health and education . |
| 6 | The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ . |
| 7 | Your expenses , beyond stamps , which I can provide for you , will be nothing , I suppose , at Sandgate — no railway fares , & c & c . |
| 8 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 9 | If the law is to recognise the significance of the individual 's physical integrity , then it must provide for offences of this kind even if some of the conduct falling within the definition of the offence is properly kept out of the courts by prosecutorial discretion . |
| 10 | It might be imagined that Christianity would first provide for rulers those ritualistic and magical elements congruent with the expectations of converted pagans , and thereafter , with growing political and religious maturity , the moral dimension . |
| 11 | To know he ca n't provide for his family . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You ask : how do you advance the public interest , how do you provide for it in the best way ? ’ |
| 13 | There has been a revolution in the way people can provide for their retirement with the introduction of personal pensions and greater flexibility in preparing for retirement . |
| 14 | For a long time , though , not only was contact thought of as inappropriate and as transgressing the traditional image of adoption , but there was also the view that the Adoption Act did not provide for access or contact . |
| 15 | It seems a fair bet that the water companies will be less than enthusiastic about providing the public with evidence that will provide for their own prosecution . |
| 16 | This disjunctive , unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them . |
| 17 | Without these pupils , the new schools could not of course demonstrate whether or not they could provide for them as well as the grammar schools had . |
| 18 | And you can provide for your retirement . |
| 19 | This brochure is about : how individual company directors , partners , self-employed businessmen , and people in the professions can provide for the time when they stop working . |
| 20 | And you can provide for your retirement . |
| 21 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 22 | What do the English provide for the people of mid-Wales ? |
| 23 | ‘ She may be of age , but I wo n't allow her to marry someone who ca n't provide for her ! ’ |
| 24 | Sports such as judo or fencing can provide for these needs beyond fitness . |
| 25 | The Centre can provide for individuals as well as for groups and parties . |
| 26 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 27 | People who are self-employed are not included in SERPS and can therefore only provide for their retirement with a personal pension plan plus the basic state pension . |
| 28 | If the very young , and sometimes the educationally very backward , are taught , or perhaps more accurately indoctrinated , with the idea that there is a ‘ god ’ who approves the teaching , who is caring for them , and who will provide for their needs , they will believe this , even when a state of intense deprivation confutes this every day of their lives . |
| 29 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 30 | Such a clause may provide for the president of the professional body to appoint such a person . |