Example sentences of "it has provided " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , it has provided young , highly enthusiastic professionals with unprecedented access to some of the jewels of English carving .
2 Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets .
3 Since its launch , it has provided a base line for studying global warming .
4 He said Norwich had faced calls on 60 of the 1,200 so-called ‘ property-backed ’ guarantees it has provided to Lloyd 's members .
5 Apart from the fact that it 's not the way we like our work to come to us , it has provided some other difficulties .
6 It has provided a valuable structure for our thinking and discussions , but , because we have had to focus less on teachers and more on pupils , we have not found it appropriate to map programmes of study directly on to the model .
7 Gay intellectuals may dismiss essentialism as a bogus utopia , but it has provided the emotional power behind a great deal of gay activism — it is much harder to claim civil rights for a discursive construction .
8 In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level .
9 Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it .
10 Right from the start of the period and up to this present time late in the twentieth century , it has provided numerous examples of the manner in which mankind has failed again and again , in his efforts to mitigate the suffering inherent in the ruthless laws of evolution by replacing them with something better , something which it called ‘ civilisation ’ .
11 In addition , it has provided £100,000 for a national environmental projects competition and backed dozens of local schemes .
12 If any good has come out of the Mandy 's story , it is the barrage of publicity it has provided on under-age sex .
13 But it is idle , and indeed pernicious , to suppose that it has provided solutions of any worthwhile generality .
14 For centuries , it has provided an excuse for people to kiss each other , even encouraging shy folks to kiss their hearts ' desire .
15 It has provided the spark to get me going again . ’
16 It has provided an advice service to staff and students , conducted research and published information , but perhaps most of all has provided through its regional and local groups , and national conferences , an opportunity for teaching staff and others to meet together on a regular basis to share ideas and experience .
17 It has provided the framework for the acceptance of Japan as a leading member of the top Western nations ' club , on the basis of an apparent willingness to accept many Western political and cultural values and a devotion to the pursuit of economic activity within the parameters of the US-dominated international economy .
18 It has provided unique information on the pattern of food consumption and expenditure in Great Britain for fifty years .
19 While it has never resolved long-standing tensions between discourses on " culture " , " science " , " philanthropy " ( later transmuted to " welfare " ) , and " national efficiency " ( later , " wealth creation " ) , it has provided a cultural domain apparently immune to the ravages caused by their continuing conflicts .
20 While the practical impact of PPB can best be described as marginal , it has provided an important contribution in terms of new ideas for the potentiality of a system of output budgeting .
21 However , Joanne and her parents agree that having the baby has brought them all closer together as a family , and it has provided a focus and role for her mother who , after Joanne 's account , tells her version of the way that this has positively transformed her life .
22 The other political factor against which town planning has to be seen in context in the post-war period relates to the local government and the institutional setting it has provided .
23 It has provided them with a stronger sense of purpose and mission , ’ he says .
24 It has provided excellent service in the past , and wishes to do so in the future .
25 It has provided an essential cement for the whole of the United Kingdom .
26 It has provided an opportunity to develop many aspects .
27 First , by removing entrenched collective bargaining arrangements embodied in nationalisation legislation it has provided management an opportunity to restructure employee relations .
28 At the same time it has provided a setting for counter-inflation policy during a period when the emphasis of policy shifted , world-wide , towards the control of inflation .
29 Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains .
30 The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes .
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