The phrase "argued to provide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a claim or assertion made by someone regarding the benefits or advantages of something.
Example: "The researchers argued to provide evidence that their new method was more effective than the traditional approach."
Alternatives: "claimed to offer" or "asserted to deliver".
MP3.com purchased 80,000 major-label CD's for its database in order, it argued, to provide consumers with easier access to music they had already bought.
"Ethnic capital" (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants.
The methodological approach used in this paper is argued to provide an informative way of studying the effects (or lack thereof) of cross-country variability in response style.
This finding is argued to provide on-line evidence for a type of enriched lexical processing posited in recent lexical semantic research.
Location-aware Augmented Reality (AR) applications are often argued to provide users with immersive experiences that are situated in the real world.
Furthermore, Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR) tests conducted at a pre-determined temperature were argued to provide more satisfactory comparisons across a number of bitumen types compared to MSCR runs at a pre-determined target viscosity.
Vinther, himself, is more positive: it has the potential, he argues, to provide a powerful, non-confrontational way for people to come together.
Policies are needed, argued Tyson, to provide both flexibility in the job market and security as people change from one job to another.
"Negligent boards of directors bore much of the responsibility for the crisis, he argued, failing to provide oversight or check risky activity," the cable said.
The work of the clinical psychologist, Marston argued, is to provide patients with an "emotional re-education": "People must be taught that the love parts of themselves, which they have come to regard as abnormal, are completely normal".
Releasing "a few billion" pounds would be likelier to ruin Britain's hard-won credibility with global financial markets, he argued, than to provide a meaningful fillip for the economy.
