Example sentences of "it [vb mod] provide a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may provide a government , as do European parliaments , or just legislate and oversee one , as in America . |
| 2 | However , it may provide a part of a general theory , which might relate the mode of fertilization , the kind of parental care , and the system of mating , to explain the several general types of reproductive system . |
| 3 | It may provide a school with a sports strip , probably indicating sponsorship by having the firm 's name on clothing , or donate some surplus machinery to a college . |
| 4 | If the same anticorrelation can be applied to the longer-term decline in the Sun 's diameter , it may provide a clue to the dearth of sunspots during the height of the Little Ice Age , 300 years ago . |
| 5 | Since this strategy enables the elimination of many word strings as the transition probabilities between successive words are calculated , it may provide a solution to the problem of the large number of word strings that are derived when words are hypothesized from a mid-class input . |
| 6 | It should provide a measure of structure and sequence in what is learned , though that measure may vary a good deal from subject to subject and even student to student . |
| 7 | I quote further it should only be used to signify the unity of the church and it should provide a sharing in the means of grace . |
| 8 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 9 | A CCETSW spokesman said : ‘ Now we have our kitemark , it should provide a guide . |
| 10 | It should provide a starting-point from which students can formulate their own , more individual strategies . |
| 11 | It should provide a place where children can meet and talk with adults who live in and serve the local community — the fireman , the nurse , the secretary , the shopkeeper , the police officer , the craftsman and craftswoman . |
| 12 | It must provide a list of designated sites by mid-1995 . |
| 13 | There was a little parapet going round the arcade and it suddenly occurred to Owen that it might provide a vantage-point from which he could more pleasantly monitor proceedings . |
| 14 | It could provide a clearing-house for information , contributed by national governments . |
| 15 | Land reform had always been considered by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party to be a means to an end , indeed it could provide a way forward for China on economic , social , communist and ideological grounds . |
| 16 | They were trying to isolate the gene that produces insulin and insert it into the nucleus of a bacterium , so that you could get a self-replicating life-form which could then be used in the treatment of diabetes , or else it could provide a source of insulin that was n't animal-derived and did n't give you rejection problems . |
| 17 | The idea was largely motivated by political considerations , it would provide a sea route to the Far East in competition with the , then , unconstructed Suez Canal expected to be controlled by the French . |
| 18 | Besides being far more satisfactory , it is submitted , from a social as well as a legal-theoretical standpoint , it would provide a framework applicable to all unions . |
| 19 | At that time it would provide a resting place for six to ten clients a week , and the arrival of each one had the macabre side of me guessing what kind of corpse it was . |
| 20 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 21 | Some libertarians ( though not perhaps Mill himself ) hoped that such freedom would have consequent advantages : that it would provide a safety valve for dissent , encourage full expression of both majority and minority opinions , allow truth to drive out error , and provide some check on arbitrary misrule . |
| 22 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 23 | It would provide a reminder that the impact of Government policies on business should be taken into account before they are implemented , not left until afterwards , when the choice could be between damage to our competitiveness and a damaging climb-down by the Government . |
| 24 | Importantly , it will provide a base for education and health professionals to meet with parents . |
| 25 | Interleaf says it will provide a migration path for its 130,000 existing non-SGML users to move to the standard incorporated into version 5 of its package . |
| 26 | It will provide a teaching aid to direct teachers to current studies and to indicate the principal areas of concern as shown by the balance of topics covered in the published literature . |
| 27 | It will provide a range of high-technology treatment for skin diseases including dermatitis , skin cancer and psoriasis . |
| 28 | It will provide a framework for structured , creative thinking and produce a greater understanding of the business and of the markets and other conditions in which the business operates . |
| 29 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 30 | If this latest plan works it will provide a blueprint for transport policy throughout Europe . |