The phrase "a whole provides" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the benefits or contributions of a complete entity or system.
Example: "In a collaborative project, a whole provides the necessary resources and support for individual members to succeed."
Alternatives: "a complete entity offers" or "a whole contributes".
The shopping centre as a whole provides a mixed-use environment for locals – it has, in fact, regenerated itself.
The book as a whole provides a functional analysis of corporate (or company) law in Europe, the U.S., and Japan.
I'm a practicing Episcopalian, and the series as a whole provides as profound and knotty and empathetic a meditation on human existence as anything I've heard in church.
Sophisticated, broadly interdisciplinary....the book as a whole provides a fine example of careful intellectual argument, a model, in fact, for students not only in philosophy.
The collection as a whole provides insights into events related to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in early 1917 and the ensuing hostilities that enveloped Eastern Europe.
Nine out of 10 young people use BBC services every week, and the corporation as a whole provides a good range of quality content for this group, concluded the report.
We focused our final analysis on the benefits to the British economy as a whole, providing the economic business case for investment in a spaceport.
This watches the field as a whole, providing co-ordinates that map the radar and optical data onto broadcasters' video feeds.
These documents taken as a whole provide an incredible opportunity to examine the evolution of an endangered language as it wrestles with the lexicon and conceptual world of the dominant language and that language's culture.
Unfortunately these studies, taken as a whole, provide little comfort for those who would like to believe that dogs are little different to humans, apart from an inability to talk.
*Page 7 of the 2004 I.G. report notes that the detention-and-interrogation program as a whole provided intelligence that "has enabled the identification of other terrorists and warned of terrorist plots," without specifying which aspects yielded the information.
