Example sentences of "they provide a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it does pay you to be a member of R A C , National Breakdown , A A or whatever because at least most of them provide a service where they can take you to your destination and or arrange further transport for you . |
| 2 | The year before , Maxims services had been tried out when the Ministry of the Court commissioned them to provide a banquet in the desert for a hundred people . |
| 3 | With its egalitarian tradition of periodic redistribution of the land it seemed to them to provide a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition to socialism . |
| 4 | In general the railways , at all events in Britain , took little interest in third-class travel , though the government forced them to provide a minimum of it . |
| 5 | Services required are spread over three separate construction sites , however CCG 's expertise in co-ordinating multi-site activities gained from their experience on previous construction projects such as BP Wytch Farm Project enable them to provide a quality service to all those areas . |
| 6 | Such sums may have been trivial in comparison with the financial resources at the disposal of the larger American combines , but they provided a base that could have been built on . |
| 7 | Oh yes , the interesting part there , in those days , was that the majority of the children were in the same boat , we were all poor and er m the Town Council had got this skating ring at Mansfield , roller skating ring , near the Gas Works , where they provided a school meal for all the children that could there during the hour lunch . |
| 8 | They provided a sounding board , enabling the civil servants to keep abreast of the state of reformist opinion , and for the penal reform groups and academic researchers to obtain an insight into current thinking at the Home Office . |
| 9 | Peter Cook , Jonathan Miller , Alan Bennett , and Dudley Moore came from public and grammar schools , juvenile mandarins of the meritocracy , they provided a show lodged in the half-way house between the angries of 1956 and the arts labs and tepees of the later 1960s , and , unlike much of what was to follow , it was very English . |
| 10 | They provided a bus , you had a bus ride and you picked up a couple of guides er , who during the night would take you over the er take you over the er Pyrenees , er over the mountains er , the Pyrenees , you see becau er you 're in need of a guide because the er the frontier posts etcetera etcetera were shut , were closed . |
| 11 | But the problem remained that the physical basis of Ampère 's equations was implausible ; they provided a model which could be adapted to fit new discoveries , but which did not lead to new predictions or give a convincing explanation to those whose first language was not mathematics-like Faraday . |
| 12 | And , finally , they provided a charter and sense of function for petit-bourgeois professionals within the educational sphere , both at school and university levels . |
| 13 | They provided a meeting point for people who were increasingly diversified in language , manners , status and even political allegiance . |
| 14 | For all the pioneer ideology of frontier self-sufficiency which came to surround the early Americans , increasing in both numbers and wealth , they provided a market for consumer goods by 1740 which was not unlike that which had emerged in England itself . |
| 15 | For the Roman period , they provide a wealth of information about the names of festivals and magistracies , as well as the names of the people who held them . |
| 16 | They provide a way for a testator to secure some of the dispositions in his will even if the will fails and intestate succession ensues . |
| 17 | But classroom practice is not put at the service of the principles , designed to test them out ; conversely , the principles serve classroom practices in that they provide a way in which they may be more clearly understood and more systematically carried out . |
| 18 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 19 | They provide a way for Topic Criteria and more general processes to be assessed in context . |
| 20 | They provide a way in which the student can cover up his true self by finding a vocabulary acceptable to most people and a set of facts which are generally known among people generally considered to be generally educated . |
| 21 | Instead , he argues , they provide a tonic input to the cortical units that are processing input relayed by X-cells , modulating the activity of these units to improve the efficiency of visual processing . |
| 22 | The dictionaries and reference works devoted to surnames are useful to the local historian in that they provide a framework of knowledge on which more specific researches may be built . |
| 23 | An undoubted limitation of liability rules in promoting managerial efficiency is that while they provide a deterrent , they can not , unlike the market and market-linked devices , create a more positive motivational environment . |
| 24 | They provide a base for meetings , social events , the celebration of festivals . |
| 25 | They provide a kind of basic emotional energy which we need in order to keep relationships alive , and to put energy into our life 's work . |
| 26 | The activities of the sbcC and sbcD gene products have not been determined , but the available evidence suggests that they provide a nuclease that disrupts palindromic DNA ( 6 , 7 ) . |
| 27 | The courses are powerful because they provide a link between the newcomers and the local indigenous population who find that working together can help them learn to influence the decision makers . ’ |
| 28 | If the Britons who were defeated by the Goths were the followers of Riothamus , they provide a date of 469 . |
| 29 | By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market . |
| 30 | They are forced to call in the help of the gods , and the first episode describes how they provide a companion and foil . |