Example sentences of "be [conj] it provide " in BNC.
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1 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |
2 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
3 | Donald Davie has suggested that one reason for the explosion of theory is that it provides ‘ a stamping ground for the innumerable people in departments of English ( also of French , of German , of Classics ) who have energy and intelligence but no literary sensibility . ’ |
4 | A third role of sleep is that it provides an opportunity for the growth and repair of tissues . |
5 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
6 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |
7 | One advantage of accepting this conclusion is that it provides , with its assumption that the context can act as a retrieval cue , a ready account of the various contextual effects discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 3 . |
8 | The advantage of this arrangement is that it provides an efficient means of defence against predators . |
9 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
10 | ‘ But the real danger of cocaine , ’ Robin-Anne continued softly , ‘ is that it provides ecstasy , Mr Breakspear . ’ |
11 | All that we ask is that it provides public answers to the question most people in this country are asking . |
12 | The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated . |
13 | The rationale for trying to obtain verbatim records of children 's speech in naturalistic settings is that it provides the best indication of what language a child actually uses in ordinary , everyday settings . |
14 | The particular relevance of that paper is that it provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on special needs and the under-fives , and a major theme pervading the NARE conference talk was the need to evolve policies of collective responsibility in the development of services to meet special needs of children under five , given the context that pre-school education is not statutory . |
15 | The importance of recognition as a goal is that it provides managers with unlimited opportunity . |
16 | The major drawback with the Byrne approach , however , is that it provides only an incidental guide to the way in which the services might be allocated between different types of local authority . |
17 | The joy of a golden thread approach is that it provides a way of moving between the past and the very different circumstances of the present . |
18 | … perhaps the main value of the Library-College movement is that it provides a speculative model for use in our thinking . |
19 | One other great advantage of the plate is that it provides a wide surface upon which to dry out . |
20 | The significance of this proposition is that it provides the basis for a theory of literary or poetic meaning which both distinguishes this meaning from the external world and relates it to it . |
21 | The innovation of the present paper is that it provides a formal model of union wage and membership determination where membership of the union is not compulsory . |
22 | One is that it provides scope for corruption ; e.g. , in the placing of government purchases , the allocation of commodities in excess demand , and in regulatory activities . |
23 | One of the differences , in my view , is that it provides a foot in the door for extremist parties of the sort that we do not want in Britain . |
24 | Thom 's main claim for his basic theory is that it provides a language enabling qualitative description of a system of moderate complexity embracing discontinuities . |
25 | Its importance is that it provides a potential link from Heriot-Watt University campus to the residential areas of Currie and Juniper Green . |
26 | A valuable feature of our case is that it provides a detailed profile of the natural history of EATCL over a period of 12 months from initial presentation to the introduction of chemotherapy . |
27 | The advantage of the new system from the employer 's point of view is that it provides a completely flexible framework of qualifications based on nationally accepted standards . |
28 | The value of the writing is that it provides points of reference for the voyager within . |
29 | A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) . |
30 | A corollary is that it provides an account of how more can be communicated , in his rather strict sense of non-naturally meant , than what is actually said . |