Example sentences of "have provided a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The occasional beachings of pilot whales must have provided a welcome source of protein . |
| 4 | It may have provided a perfect ‘ apprenticeship ’ for building a movie empire . |
| 5 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 6 | The Little Avon must have provided a reasonably reliable source of power for , in an era when mill owners were beginning to install steam engines to supplement or replace water power , during the 1830s New Mills still relied solely on water . |
| 7 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 8 | If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads . |
| 9 | The sounds , as we have already said , must have provided a constant cacophonous background to the daily round , while the smell of a street which included a butcher and chandler 's shop , stables , a smithy , clothiers , workshops and a liberal supply of earth closets would be scarcely credible to modern sensibilities . |
| 10 | After an abortive attempt to merge with Standard Chartered , whose international network and weak UK base would have provided a good fit , the Midland started |
| 11 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 12 | The Harlequin man could n't have provided a better distraction . |
| 13 | The research on lawyers , presented below , could have provided a basis for continuing to classify together lawyers , doctors and vicars . |
| 14 | I would have told him if I 'd thought there was a cat 's chance in hell he 'd have provided a guard for you — a constable on your doorstep . ’ |
| 15 | The lack of fully operational IPPs , which could have provided a safeguard against inconsistency , adds to workers ' anxiety that Elizabeth and Helen are being let down . |
| 16 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 17 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 18 | The process of identifying and defining the target group , and the research required to do this , will usually have provided a lot of information , too , about how the consumer thinks about our brand . |
| 19 | The general growth of awareness of environmental problems may have provided a problem-centred focus which helps to overcome any sense of theoretical looseness . |
| 20 | However , there are no easy solutions to the problems of an area such as the Highlands within the constraints of the existing national economic structure , and there is no certainty that small-scale industries would have provided a better base for employment growth . |
| 21 | The case , brief and obscure though it is , might well have provided a basis upon which judges could later have built to develop a principle that money demanded ultra vires by a public authority was prima facie recoverable . |
| 22 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 23 | Certainly the industry must have encouraged the growth of local villas and houses exploiting the potential of their agricultural resources to the full , while the town in its turn would have provided a workforce and essential access to the necessary marketing facilities . |
| 24 | An open-fronted building at Holditch , containing cooking vessels , a large quern and an oven might have provided a similar service , while the evidence for a counter in the vicus at Greta Bridge points to another obvious gap in the evidence . |
| 25 | Some will also have provided a range of facilities for those officials and private individuals travelling along the highways , which would have been an important element in those small towns which housed a mansio or , to a lesser extent , a mutatio , though there is surprisingly little evidence to demonstrate this . |
| 26 | I understand that feeling because we have had to do things that are counter intuitive and very difficult but unless we had driven inflation out of the system we would not have provided a proper platform for secure long term growth . |
| 27 | Until now , Livingston has consistently protested total innocence of how he could have provided a positive sample in a Sports Council test just before the Games . |