Example sentences of "it provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unsatisfactory nature of project evaluation work and the inconclusive lessons which can be drawn from it provide little justification for the donor ‘ omniscience ’ which continues to characterize their negotiations with recipients . |
| 2 | But Nagel himself is content to take for granted that other creatures do have experiences , and he does not require of an objective phenomenology that it provide a philosophical proof of this presupposition . |
| 3 | HP claims that 7100-based business servers running it provide commercial users with the industry 's fastest uniprocessor server performance on TPS-A benchmarks . |
| 4 | It provided the subjects with a soothing and uplifting hope that whenever there appeared in their lives an oppressive mischance , some tormenting difficulty , His Most Unrivalled Highness would hearten them — by attaching the greatest importance to that mischance or difficulty . |
| 5 | It provided intellectual and spiritual leadership and some alleviation from hunger and starvation . |
| 6 | If anything , it provided some pleasant surprises — about , for instance , the ability of large crowds to demonstrate peacefully , and the ability of Hong Kong-financed factories in southern China to be all but unaffected by turmoil in Peking . |
| 7 | The most disturbing aspect of this incident was the evidence it provided of a residual antisemitism in Poland , disproportionate to the residue of a once-great Jewish community . |
| 8 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 9 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 10 | In voicing his theory of impersonality , and in searching for terms of extreme yet impersonal expression anthropology was important in terms of the ideas and structures which it provided , but also in terms of its vocabulary again often used for the communication of deep distress . |
| 11 | It facilitated Britain 's surprisingly rapid re-emergence as a major capital exporter , and it provided a framework for a major squeeze on the colonies . |
| 12 | It provided over £500m in capital in 1987 to nine hundred businesses . |
| 13 | I was always surrounded by strong images — the image of the café , how it looked and the service it provided . |
| 14 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |
| 15 | It provided the perfect sanctuary and Mountbatten was always there with time and interest to talk and advise . |
| 16 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it provided Harold Watkinson with just the precedent that he needed to swing the pendulum back into the centre of the spectrum of war . |
| 18 | It provided for a ban on imports of ozone-gobbling chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , of products containing CFCs , and of products which used CFCs in their manufacturing process . |
| 19 | America lavished $1 billion on Liberia in the 1980s , partly because it provided the freed slaves who settled the country last century , mainly because Liberia gave a home to a Voice of America transmitter , a navigation beacon , a relay station for diplomatic communications , and a huge airfield where arms could be discreetly trans-shipped . |
| 20 | It provided for Kurdish legislative and executive councils , but real power was retained by the central government in Baghdad . |
| 21 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 22 | In one respect the Free Presbyterian Church was a valuable resource of the DUP in that it provided a cadre of people who had considerable training and experience in organization and oratory : the ministers and elders . |
| 23 | But equally , it provided a home for some of the darkest forms of distrust of and revulsion from sex and marriage . |
| 24 | Such an attitude , though unfavourable to the concept of a universal church , could be of great benefit to cathedrals , monasteries , and parish churches , because it provided them with protectors , and because often a high standard of religious observance could be stimulated by family pride . |
| 25 | The September speech was said to have disappointed many in the Würzburg area because it provided no comforting words about the situation on the eastern Front . |
| 26 | For Hitler and the Nazi leadership , it provided only the base for racial-imperialist conquest and a war of annihilation . |
| 27 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 28 | However , it provided the basis for further advances , including the discovery that some animals can orient to previously unsuspected stimuli ( magnetic and electric fields ) , and von Frisch 's discovery that bees can communicate information about direction symbolically . |
| 29 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 30 | A SUSSEX businessman is threatening to sue National Westminster Bank over a reference it provided about a company that collapsed within four weeks of him supplying games worth more than £7,000 . |