Example sentences of "[noun] to produce a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an attempt to produce a play of classical dimensions in a modern idiom , which in 1963 was a brave thing to do . |
| 2 | On Jan. 23 , in an attempt to produce a consensus , a temporary " consultative council " was created , bringing together representatives of all major political forces in Georgia , including the leaders of the military council , to work with Sigua and his ministers . |
| 3 | The Government 's attempt to produce a solution has failed . |
| 4 | An array of sanctions — ‘ fizzers ’ , ‘ on the peg ’ — informal and formal , regulated the beat in an attempt to produce a display of robotic precision and efficiency . |
| 5 | In June 1976 the Hansard Society Commission on Electoral Reform observed that " certainly in Ireland there is no conscious attempt to produce a slate of candidates across the political spectrum within a party " . |
| 6 | Another recent attempt to produce an incidence curve using 126 patients who were screen positive for polyps , determined that 10% were detected after 40 years of age . |
| 7 | Cézanne worked with a full Impressionist palette , and it is evident , not only from a visual analysis of his painting , but also from his letters and from Emile Bernard 's observations on his method of work , that Cézanne relied on the exactness of tonal relationships to produce a sensation of volume and recession ; indeed , the necessity he felt to verify these relationships was one of the reasons why he was compelled to turn back continually to a study of nature . |
| 8 | Blaney 's intention to produce a study of evil was as clear as if the portrait had been labelled . |
| 9 | Despite this , they defied a cold and boisterous wind to produce a game full of movement and commitment . |
| 10 | An extended writing task requiring candidates to produce a report , article , memorandum , etc , on a choice of role-related topics drawn from the business and economic life . |
| 11 | The scheme requires schools to produce a self-evaluation report which must cover aspects of the school laid out in a set of guidelines . |
| 12 | At Snape Maltings Concert Hall , they have a ‘ Celebration of Schools Music ’ week , when they ask a number of schools to produce a band or orchestra , or anything musical for their concerts . |
| 13 | Concealed drip rails and careful sealing around body panels combine with other details such as an underbody deflector to smooth airflow in the area of the rear suspension , fuel tank and spare wheel to produce a Cd of 0.32 or 0.33 depending on model . |
| 14 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 15 | Abraham 's attack was of sufficient weight to produce a preamble to the biennial report published by the BDDA in 1905 . |
| 16 | Segments are then matched against a database of character shapes to produce a lattice of the likely characters . |
| 17 | It flows despite the fact that there is an insulating vacuum between the tip and the surface : thanks to the vagaries of quantum mechanics , electrons can ‘ tunnel ’ through the gap to produce a current . |
| 18 | We want each police force to produce a charter telling local people , for example , how quickly the police will aim to respond to emergency calls . |
| 19 | The bonds carry a five-year maturity and will be priced on Tuesday to produce a yield of 0.42-0.44 per cent above the five-year US Treasury yield . |
| 20 | In Victorian times there was a flourishing ‘ marble ’ works here , of which only the site remains ; it engaged in the cutting , dressing and polishing of dark grey limestone won from nearby quarries to produce an appearance of marble , but which was made even more attractive by the presence of fossil patterns in the stone . |
| 21 | There is a great deal of reluctance in the Industry to produce a version of DOS which is not ‘ backwards-compatible ’ as this would make existing software obsolete at a stroke and users would be reluctant to make such a drastic ( and expensive ) move . |
| 22 | There is a request for action to produce a decision . |
| 23 | In their ambition to produce a cinema version of Granta , the editors have not solved the problem presented by the fact that film-makers who want to write about their films probably are not making them . |
| 24 | At a conference on academic diversification in higher education in 1977 William Gutteridge suggested that the main questions regarding the DipHE now included : its purpose within higher education ; the problem of the coherence of a two-year programme and modular structures ; possibilities for outlets and transfer , and the feasibility of a one-year ‘ top-up ’ course of study to produce a degree . |
| 25 | The reflected waves interfere with the incoming waves to produce a pattern of standing waves or clapotis , the crests of which always appear in the same places ( Fig. 8. 1A ) . |
| 26 | A ‘ radical ’ new procedure , under which complaints staff make inquiries by telephone or face to face with the parties to produce a summary for the complaints committee , is proposed . |
| 27 | It hastened the growth of the kulaks , peasant farmers hiring labour to produce a surplus for the market , and increased their productive power . |
| 28 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 29 | the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) worked with the Head of Additional Studies Faculty to produce a framework for a study-skills course which would link with the work of all other departments ; |
| 30 | This promoted the HCIMA to produce an Education Brief and also A Guide to NVQs . |