"provide the ground" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to offer or supply the necessary basis or foundation for something. Example: The company must provide the ground for a successful launch of their new product by conducting thorough market research and advertising campaigns.
Instead, they enact bankruptcy laws to provide the ground rules for creditor-debtor bargaining, thereby promoting efficiency and fairness.
I do not believe that the Kurdish forces or the Free Syrian Army have the capability to provide the ground offensive against Isis that we need.
Among the scars left by the heritage of slavery, one of the greatest is an absence: where are the memorials, cemeteries, architectural structures or sturdy sanctuaries that typically provide the ground for a people's memory?
In medieval and Renaissance times, gesso (usually made of plaster of paris mixed with glue) was applied to wood panels, plaster, stone, or canvas to provide the ground for tempera and oil painting.
Gen. Timothy P. McHale, found that the Predator operators in Nevada and "poorly functioning command posts" in the area failed to provide the ground commander with evidence that there were civilians in the trucks.
"I suspect they will have to see how it works in some of the bigger departments, see what the lessons are, where it does and doesn't work well," he says, adding that in the long term this may provide the ground for it to be used more widely.
"The Road Not Taken" is not the first book devoted to Edward Lansdale, and it is not quite of the calibre of "A Bright Shining Lie," in part because Boot can't provide the ground-level reporting that Sheehan could.
The Maazels provide the grounds and housing for the more than 200 participants.
You can side with Campbell's own point that age and experience provide the grounding for good judgment.
But if it compromises on the questions of maritime boundaries, it could provide the grounds for territorial challenges from another neighbor, Indonesia.
Hourly rainfall data observed at 126 raingauges in typhoon events provide the ground-truth information for adjusting radar rainfall estimates.
