Pundits surely provide much that enriches our national political conversation.
Athletic scholarships surely provide an opportunity for the less economically advantaged to receive an education.
Meanwhile, for the next three weeks, football will surely provide its own swings, roundabouts and seesaws.
So a longer study involving a larger number of patients would surely provide better insight.
A merger should surely provide BAE and the British government with some influence over the future direction of EADS.
Winning at White Hart Lane on New Years' Day would surely provide another vital boost to their confidence.
One woman, in the security of being doubly beloved and beneficiaried, can surely provide life-extending companionship to two men.
What California would surely provide, however, is an early test of a candidate's appeal to a big and varied electorate.
The general confusion as prices in the euro-11 area are re-expressed in euros will surely provide a smokescreen for various kinds of fraud.
But a government contemplating war should surely provide a credible advance estimate of the final bill, akin to what Mr Stiglitz and Ms Bilmes have done.
And while there will be limited opportunities for the fast-twitch racers, the early sprint showdowns among Cavendish, Farrar, and Petacchi will surely provide for compelling theater.
