verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constitution provides for sth (=it says something must be done)
▪ Singapore's constitution provides for an elected president as head of state.
bring/provide benefits
▪ The new bridge has brought considerable benefits.
establish/create/provide an agenda (=begin to have an agenda)
▪ We need to establish an agenda for future research.
give sb ammunition/provide sb with ammunition
▪ His mistakes provided political opponents with even more ammunition.
give sb/offer/provide a chance
▪ I was given the chance to play the main part in the play.
▪ Sport provides a chance for you to get outside with friends.
give sb/provide the facts
▪ Newspapers have a duty to give their readers the facts.
give sb/provide training
▪ Employees should also be given adequate training in fire safety precautions.
give/go into/provide etc specifics
▪ Thurman was reluctant to go into specifics about the deal.
give/offer/provide reassurance
▪ They are offering practical help and reassurance.
give/provide a picture
▪ Her book gives us an interesting picture of ordinary people’s homes at the time.
give/provide a sample
▪ He said he had once fainted when giving a sample of blood.
give/provide an education
▪ The school aims to provide a good general education.
give/provide information
▪ a booklet giving information about local education services
give/provide protection (also offer/afford protectionformal)
▪ One dose of the vaccine provides protection against TB during childhood.
▪ They say they are afforded no protection whatsoever by the security forces.
give/provide shelter
▪ The trees gave shelter from the wind.
give/provide/offer an overview
▪ The report provides an overview of the recent policy changes.
offer/provide an alternative
▪ If your first choice is not available, we always have alternatives to offer.
provide a base
▪ It is essential to provide a sound base from which economic progress can be made.
provide a basis for sth
▪ The poem provided the basis for an interesting class discussion.
provide a challenge (=be an interesting one)
▪ Her new job provided a real challenge.
provide a clue
▪ Any information could provide the police with useful clues.
provide a commentary
▪ The helicopter was providing a running commentary to the police control room.
provide a comparison
▪ The test can be used to provide a comparison of a child's language development with that of other children.
provide a context for sth
▪ The study provides a context for future research.
provide a descriptionformal
▪ The diary provides a clear description of farming life in the 1850s.
provide a focus
▪ The church provided a focus for the community.
provide a forecast
▪ Analysts usually provide growth forecasts for no more than two years ahead.
provide a habitat (=be suitable and available as a home for particular animals or plants)
▪ Marshes provide the habitat of many species of wading birds.
provide a perspective
▪ Their research is concerned with providing an alternative perspective on our past.
provide a setting
▪ The hotel provides an ideal setting for conferences.
provide amusement
▪ The park provides plenty of amusement for the children.
provide an account
▪ Freud has provided an account of the human psyche’s stages of development.
provide an example
▪ Our brochure provides examples of the different villas on offer.
provide an income
▪ The properties he rented out provided him with an income.
provide an outline
▪ The first chapter provides an outline of the theory of evolution.
provide assistance
▪ There is no doubt that the US will provide assistance.
provide care
▪ The charity provides care and shelter for homeless people.
provide cash
▪ Campaigners are urging the government to provide more cash for health care.
provide comfort
▪ Talking about your problems may provide some comfort.
provide coverage
▪ Satellite coverage of the Olympics was first provided in 1968.
provide employment (=offer jobs to people)
▪ The new power station will provide employment for around 400 people.
provide entertainment
▪ Dancers and musicians were on hand to provide entertainment.
provide facilities
▪ Recycling facilities are provided by the local council.
provide feedback
▪ How can I provide feedback without making someone angry?
provide help
▪ The goverment should do more to provide help for people who are looking for work.
provide help
▪ If you have to move, we provide financial help towards the cost.
provide inspiration for sth
▪ The Malvern Hills have provided inspiration for many artists.
provide (sb with) an estimate
▪ Could you ask him if he can provide us with an estimate?
provide sb with an incentive
▪ Good teachers provide their students with incentives to learn.
provide supervision
▪ The tutors also provide supervision for research students.
provide/administer treatment (=give someone treatment)
▪ Paramedics are trained to administer on-the-spot treatment to patients.
provided...pretext
▪ The incident provided the pretext for war.
provide/give proof
▪ You will be required to provide proof of your identity.
provide...impetus
▪ The report may provide further impetus for reform.
provide/offer a reminder
▪ The case has provided a chilling reminder of how violently some people react to foreigners.
provide/offer a service
▪ Datapost offers a delivery service to over 160 countries.
▪ Our aim is to provide the best service at the lowest price.
▪ the supply of goods and services
provide/offer a solution
▪ I don't think that tourism will provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems.
provide/offer an explanation
▪ This theory may provide an explanation for the origins of the universe.
provide/offer contrast
▪ The plant is very attractive, and provides excellent contrast to other plants.
provide/offer/create a safe haven (for sb)
▪ The prime minister wanted to create a safe haven for the refugees.
provide/present/open up an opportunity
▪ The course also provides an opportunity to study Japanese.
provide/produce an analysis
▪ The report provided an analysis of the problems we need to address.
provides...insights
▪ The research provides new insights into the way we process language.
provide/supply details
▪ Hotels that join the scheme provide details of their accommodation and facilities.
provide/supply electricity (=produce electricity and make it available to people)
▪ The dam will provide water and electricity for 30 million people.
provide/supply equipment
▪ a contract to supply drilling equipment to the mine
provide/supply instructions (=give someone instructions)
▪ Detailed instructions are supplied with the software.
send/provide aid
▪ EU Ministers meeting in Belgium agreed to send humanitarian aid.
supply/provide energy
▪ The wind farm will provide enough energy for 100,000 homes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ We also provide interest free overdraft facilities in the first year of study.
▪ The group also provided the same service for the renovation of the Temple of Music and Art.
▪ This also provides an instant monitor of the distribution of actual and/or perceived problems presented by schools.
▪ The new contract, which Laws negotiated with the board, also provides additional compensation that is separate from the base salary.
▪ This also provides a valuable workshop for restoration of various projects, being a credit to all concerned.
▪ The increasing emphasis on meatless meals in restaurants and in cookbooks also provides inspiration to home cooks minding a budget.
▪ Rivers also provide a means of disposing of waste, and act as a transport medium.
▪ The language within the marks also provides a nice change from the narrative voice and gives your readers an interesting third-person perspective.
■ NOUN
act
▪ The Children Act provides a structure for working within them; but it does not provide a base for practice.
▪ However, like its predecessors, this reform act provided ample loopholes to those who wish to circumvent the legislation.
▪ In particular, the Act of 1988 provided a four-month transitional period.
▪ The Companies Act provides that companies must have directors but does not define their functions.
▪ The Legal Aid Act 1974 provides that solicitor and counsel may receive their remuneration only from the fund.
▪ But proposed tough legislation threatens the opportunities the Act provides.
▪ Sullivan felt sure that this final act would provide a logical conclusion to the investigation.
answer
▪ The intention is to make these publications easily readable with the objective of providing quick and basic answers to queries.
▪ They need to learn how to perform as facilitators who guide others toward self-discovery as well as experts who provide the answers.
▪ Examination of the theories which purport to provide an answer to this question is none the less important for a number of reasons.
▪ No one can provide definitive answers to these questions.
▪ Sampson has earned the opportunity to provide the answer.
▪ This stage of experiment should focus and direct inquiry by providing some answers to old questions and suggesting some new questions.
▪ Researchers hope that observations of behaviour within the hive will provide an answer.
▪ In some societies there is disagreement about this question, and many look to an authority source to provide the answer.
assistance
▪ When the need for assistance is not even recognised, there is considerable difficulty for any advice agency in providing assistance.
▪ It provides assistance to member states in improving safety practices in the chemical industry.
▪ Many people have kindly provided advice and assistance during the preparation of this catalogue.
▪ They provide technical assistance to teachers, especially in science subjects, and sometimes also deal with audio-visual equipment.
▪ He asked if the mechanics might stop on their way home and see if they could provide assistance.
▪ At what rate of interest will the Bank provide assistance when next it is asked?
▪ Legal aid is not available for representation, though advice and assistance under the Green Form scheme will provide assistance.
basis
▪ Neither of these styles provided the basis for the emergence of Aung San and Nu.
▪ An audit also provides a basis for dietitian / nutritionist accountability.
▪ Business planning also provides a rational basis for measuring performance and helps managers to work as a team.
▪ Such taxonomies provide us with a basis for thinking more clearly about the kinds of generalizations that we can articulate.
▪ Do moral arguments provide an unsatisfactory basis upon which to prohibit insider dealing?
▪ This provides a basis for its analytic determination.
▪ Application of the strong equivalence principle provides the basis for a definition of parallel transport in curved space time.
▪ It could provide the basis for a cheap, ecologically desirable, integrated transport system.
care
▪ Instead a growing number of elderly demented people were admitted because of the local authorities' failure to provide alternative care.
▪ Supporters argue that the measure would provide care centers protection from false accusations.
▪ They also perceive a danger that their skills in recruiting volunteers will be seen as a cheap way of providing care.
▪ Medicaid provides health care for the poor and eligible seniors.
▪ To provide specialist care on a selective or exclusive basis - for example, for families of a particular religious denomination or area.
▪ Some patients report troubles persuading their managed-care health plans to provide cutting-edge care.
▪ A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children.
clue
▪ Consequently, there are rarely any really diagnostic ceramic or metal artefacts that can provide any clue as to their age.
▪ The river bottom will also provide clues about the current.
▪ Genetic research may provide clues to overweight.
▪ Immunohistochemistry provides some clues, but caution must be exercised in drawing conclusions.
▪ The myth of the dismemberment of Dionysos by the Titans, however, provides a possible clue to the solution.
▪ The Parish Registers provide no obvious clue.
▪ A curious detail of the governance conflict between the Titans and Zeus provides a clue to their significance in Orphism.
company
▪ Most companies will provide one-off initial sums expecting to realise the investment within three to seven years.
▪ Both companies consequently emphasized providing leadership, developing subordinates, and maintaining long-term partnerships with clients.
▪ The company provided accommodation for those taking advantage of the week-end visits.
▪ All its scientific equipment is leased from a venture company that specializes in providing such equipment.
▪ Fishing companies simply need to provide fish bait for their fishermen.
▪ A cottage industry has even sprung up among companies that provide information about other people seeking information.
▪ Using recruitment companies Recruitment companies can provide an important service for the catering trade.
▪ As many as 60 companies are expected to provide the local service later this year.
detail
▪ Further Information - A 24 house answering service provides details of opening times and latest information on special exhibitions and forthcoming events.
▪ Ashcroft did not go into specifics of his plans publicly, but black lawmakers provided details given to them.
▪ Page 7 of this Update provides more details.
▪ Anderson said Apple has plans to further reduce its expenses but he declined to provide details.
▪ They provide details of the furnishings and fittings of each particular type of room.
▪ The official declined to provide more details.
▪ He can provide details of the job, our selection criteria and career opportunities.
▪ Thousands of pages of documents Gramm filed with the Federal Election Commission provide some details about where it all went.
evidence
▪ Psychophysical laws, in other words, provide no independent evidence for a physical basis of perception.
▪ Mary divorced her husband and became an important witness for police, providing evidence and the names of more victims.
▪ These experiments provide strong evidence for the existence of a system of abstract letter detectors.
▪ Many kinds of pollution provide visible evidence of their presence.
▪ Shells from marine and freshwater molluscs often provide evidence of the food eaten by inhabitants.
▪ Agreement is extremely close and provides little evidence for selection between families or against new seedling recruits.
▪ These provide evidence that, if Spenser's tract was not published before 1633, it obviously circulated in manuscript.
example
▪ The career of George Pearson provides an interesting example of the commercial and creative impulses fighting against each other in one person.
▪ Alfonsina Storni would not have objected to providing such an example.
▪ Rothenbuhler's experiments on the hygienic behaviour of bees provides a very clear example of the genetic control of behaviour.
▪ Healy provides a prIme example of this error.
▪ Cubicles for accommodation were also needed and Lydney Park provides an excellent example of these provisions.
▪ The pegging episode is discussed because it provides such a strong example of a purely accommodative policy.
▪ She provides her own examples of sudden changes in behaviour, some of which are very close to Pope's characters.
▪ This chapter has provided a variety of examples of how to win big by organizing small.
explanation
▪ I announce, expecting Mat to provide an explanation for this amazing event.
▪ And it provides a useful explanation for the power house that fuels certain cosmic sources.
▪ Without calling Josta a carbonated love potion, Pepsi provides a little explanation on the back of each can.
▪ Viewing professionalism as a market strategy provides an explanation for the differing rewards of various so-called professions.
▪ And they had to provide an explanation if they took any longer than five minutes.
▪ Certainly this can be done, though whether it provides any sort of explanation is questionable.
▪ Heather had never seen this in him before but it provided an explanation to something that had been bothering her.
facility
▪ He also insisted that any private bidders must prove that they are capable of providing better facilities at a reasonable price.
▪ Many authorities provide extensive occupational health facilities which are not available in all employment situations.
▪ Parks, moreover, can provide significant leisure facilities - and revenue - in their own right.
▪ If this service is not available press the council and local retailers to provide facilities for recycling.
▪ Until more people accept it and shops and restaurants provide proper facilities, bottle feeding is by far the easier option.
▪ The charity that provides the opportunities and facilities for disabled people to take part in sport.
▪ It will provide the best facilities in the area for people suffering from mental health problems.
▪ The first priority is to provide sewage treatment facilities.
focus
▪ Less than two minutes away are the three pools which provide the daytime focus.
▪ That provided a focus, a dynamism, and a sense of obligation to their activities that had been missing before.
▪ And environmental factors provide an obvious focus for a consideration of preventive options.
▪ Detailing the study of specific groups provides a focus for research components and presents a more coherent view of research efforts.
▪ The duke, in other words, contributed to the royal connection as well as providing a focus for existing royal servants.
▪ An up-front market study can provide valuable insights and provide sharper focus for the subsequent search.
▪ Conclusion Simmel's work provides a focus for a review or the metamorphosis or the concept of objectification.
▪ The use of an analytical inventory to provide a focus for review sessions.
foundation
▪ What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.
▪ Yet throughout it all, the tomographic maps provided the foundation on which these other discoveries were raised.
▪ These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
▪ But are they providing information that will satisfy these needs and provide a foundation for successful strategies and meaningful performance measurement?
▪ Consequently, they had to drop concrete piles 8 metres into the soil to provide a foundation.
▪ A tribunal is master of its own procedure, and this provides the foundation from which it can permit such representation.
▪ This identification of the problems provides the foundation for the solving of these endemic deficiencies.
▪ Good relationships and good communications will provide the best foundation for making the right decisions for the school.
framework
▪ One of the functions of that difficult process is to provide a ritualistic framework within which people can function.
▪ These agendas provide the framework and parameters within which they act.
▪ Henceforth this system provided the framework for his preoccupation with the problems of the extinction and origin of species.
▪ This hierarchy provides the framework upon which textual units are dynamically aggregated to satisfy varying user requirements.
▪ LEAs can offer schools significant support in maintaining the balance, and can provide appropriate frameworks to encourage this.
▪ By providing an intellectual framework through which people interpret reality and understand history it must of necessity shape our culture.
▪ The markets, while not identical with fields, provide a skeleton framework for the latter.
▪ This module provides a research framework to help teachers examine some aspect of their own professional development.
incentive
▪ This should provide you with the incentive to train harder and achieve even more.
▪ Meantime, businesses increasingly are providing employee incentives to reduce traffic.
▪ This will provide them with an incentive for continuing their education. 14.
▪ They provide another incentive to include skimmia in the garden.
▪ The current low gas price does not provide any incentive for the massive use of gas in power generation.
▪ He wanted to provide Marcy with incentives.
▪ It is these private goods, available only through union membership, which may provide the incentive to join for potential members.
▪ The commission provides the incentive and opportunity for higher earnings.
information
▪ While definitive answers may not yet be possible, recent court hearings and interviews with Lee's colleagues have provided new information.
▪ Westrell seemed flattered and provided some information about McCord, his friends and his background.
▪ There are excellent review articles in, for example, Advances in Polymer Science, which provide up-to-date information.
▪ Here I will briefly comment on a few items and themes in the unpublished section of the commentary which provide significant information.
▪ The agencies have previously provided information by address.
▪ In these conditions serum pepsinogen C provides additional diagnostic information, especially when expressed as pepsinogen A:C ratio.
▪ The second it to ask the suppliers to provide information on the correlation between different census variables and the various geodemographic systems.
▪ The initial aim of the network was to provide information about women working in grassroots organisations, health care and politics.
insight
▪ An up-front market study can provide valuable insights and provide sharper focus for the subsequent search.
▪ They are included to provide insight into the conceptual underpinnings of the team-based, decentralized approach.
▪ A visitor centre provides a fascinating insight into this traditional farming method.
▪ They provide the only insights you can be sure nobody shares. 9.
▪ This model provides considerable insight, but is not complete.
▪ Even simple models can provide new insights.
▪ This capability provides even greater insight into the structural significance of anomalies and trends than conventional image-based systems do.
means
▪ One further possibility is that the extracellular material provides a means of communication.
▪ People who work provide the means by which we get the goods and services we want.
▪ Rivers also provide a means of disposing of waste, and act as a transport medium.
▪ This is to provide a means of transmitting payments.
▪ In other words, cyberspace provides a means for individual expression that would not be appropriate or acceptable in real life.
▪ Freud acknowledges the unconscious and provides a means of exploring it and of living with it.
▪ This culture provides both the means and the incentives for discovering and remedying errors.
opportunity
▪ On the one hand this provides an excellent opportunity for the group to tap into a wide diversity of views.
▪ In fact, it might even provide an opportunity to convert them.
▪ How do you ensure that Compacts provide equal opportunities for all?
▪ How accessible must education be for a society to provide equality of opportunity to those who dwell within its borders?
▪ Paneth was a keen traveller, an interest which provided many opportunities for photography.
▪ A job program that provides genuinely equal opportunities for ghetto boys and girls will only reinforce the girls' economic edge.
▪ Stepping to the open side provides more target opportunities, but also gives the opponent opportunities too.
▪ These post-demonstration activities provide students with an opportunity to review the demonstration and the new vocabulary.
protection
▪ It may provide protection for its members as with a trade union.
▪ The General Accounting Office reports that airbags do not provide adequate protection for small children and others not sitting in normal position.
▪ Thus breastfeeding provides some contraceptive protection.
▪ Supporters argue that the measure would provide care centers protection from false accusations.
▪ Compared to open-reel tape machines they are also easier to load and store and provide better protection for the tape.
▪ In turn, the nearby uncut patches of forest provide the shy animals protection.
▪ The collar is cut high to provide good face protection in high winds.
▪ The world was less kind to Storni, for whom paternalism provided no protection.
service
▪ In addition, the county might end up charging the new cities for services it once provided free.
▪ Lettings are encouraged, not only by the head and governors, but by the service provided by the caretaker.
▪ Fire-fighting and other services are being provided for the area at a cost of more than $ 170, 000 a year.
▪ Determine how these services will be provided efficiently and well.
▪ None of these public services had previously been provided by the city.
▪ As with all services provided by the Regional Council you may also contact your local Regional Councillor.
▪ On-line services are providing different but equally rich information to analysts.
support
▪ My own work on middle school teachers provides some support for this view.
▪ Another new company will be based in California to provide administrative and support services for the combined companies.
▪ From April 1st, the responsibility for providing support will be transferred to local councils.
▪ We provide the support to get customers up and running and allow their system to operate over the Internet.
▪ The ceiling had a double layer of plywood, which would provide strong support.
▪ All these departments provide a support service to the Group in their specialised fields.
▪ Such feedback can be valuable as a reality check and provide you support when you actually implement your plan.
system
▪ The honours system provides governments with a means of distributing favours at no cost.
▪ The immune system provides another example.
▪ The University of Maryland System could provide that, but Maryland taxpayers should not make up the difference; federal taxpayers should.
▪ We believe that in future clinical computer systems will provide support for making detailed clinical decisions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lay/provide the foundation(s) for sth
▪ Tests on healthy people may lay the foundation for a vaccine to prevent AIDS.
▪ I think you have to lay the foundation for your success in terms of defense and rebounding.
▪ It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves, particularly the young.
▪ These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
▪ This theory also laid the foundation for the modern revolution in our understanding of the deepest parts of the earth.
▪ To generate fundamental knowledge that can lay the foundation for future advances in high-performance computing and communications.
▪ We could say that she is laying the foundations for dressing herself later on.
▪ What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.
▪ While incomplete, the steps that were taken laid the foundation for Workplace 2000.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Free parking is provided for hotel guests.
▪ Liz's painful story provides a clear example of the dangers of drug abuse.
▪ The money will be used to provide the school with new computer equipment.
▪ The university should provide more facilities for disabled students.
▪ Your bank should be able to provide financial advice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Game theory provides the appropriate vehicle of study.
▪ He told the rancher he wanted a place where he could develop as an artist, and Shipp provided it.
▪ His despairing tackle merely provided an easy far-post chance for Artak Minasyan.
▪ Most of these ideas are ill-founded, some are downright harmful, and a few actually provide some relief.
▪ Petrographic descriptions have been provided for core plugs from five wells.
▪ The Labour party believes in service and in spending money wisely on providing that service.
▪ Unfortunately, public affairs do not provide this degree of predetermination and control.
▪ Yet a link was sometimes provided by music, where the cathedral organist was involved with diocesan music festivals and other events.