Example sentences of "[be] to produce a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It follows from this that one of the main aims of nurse training must be to produce a nurse capable of a high standard of nursing care .
2 For example the task could be to produce a news item which would amuse the audience , or which would surprise the audience , or which would make them very happy .
3 This is not to suggest , however , that deconstruction in any sense brings another knowledge to bear : rather it involves a critique of Western knowledge that works by exploiting the ambivalent resources of Western writing , as if Marxism were to produce a critique of ideology without the advantage of its science ( which , given the current ambiguous status of Marxist science is not a possibility to be dismissed lightly ) .
4 The instructions eventually issued , as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says , were that every 310 ( probably rightly 300 ) hides were to produce a ship and every eight hides a helmet and byrnie .
5 If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes .
6 The form that came to the officers was a Conservative instruction that you were to produce a fire cover showing their fire cover idea and procedures saving money and that was the one which was thrown out .
7 Thirty seconds is to produce a film that 's a long time we did talk about seven second slots as well
8 The aim when developing painkillers is to produce a drug as potent as the narcotic analgesics such as morphine , but without their addictive effects and other undesirable impacts .
9 The effect of these is to produce a constraint like that in part ( c ) of the figure .
10 The art of blending is to produce a whisky with a distinctive flavour which will remain consistent , so that drinkers the world over will recognise and be able to enjoy their favourite blend .
11 If you are going to try to convince a reader that something wildly unlikely has taken place then one useful tool at your command is to produce a story that sweeps the reader along from incident to incident in a headlong tumble .
12 THE Government is to produce a scheme before Christmas to improve the position of pre-1973 war widows the Prime Minister indicated yesterday .
13 The long-term aim is to produce a book or series of case-studies analysing the interactions since the mid-nineteenth century between scientific and technical education and research on the one hand and industrial performance on the other .
14 The aim is to produce a grammar that generates all of those sentences — and only those sentences — that a native speaker judges to be well-formed .
15 An aid in setting down ideas and identifying the structure of the document is to produce a list of the matters to be covered by the terms and then arrange them in a logical order .
16 The net effect is to produce a loss if the share price does not move beyond the limits set by the high and low exercise prices but a small and limited profit if it does .
17 The first step is to produce a set of descriptive statistics of such variables as employment , unemployment , output , productivity and labour costs for Northern Ireland , at as detailed a level as the data permit .
18 The alternative is to produce a paper map and photograph it .
19 According to this position , the aim of narrative poetics is to produce a typology which includes all possible narrative forms , not only those that have been realized in the past .
20 In the first situation , the ideal , as suggested at the end of the previous section , is to produce a valuation of the chance of taking up a strategic option .
21 This batch of questions is called the test , and its main job is to produce a pattern of answeres called a ‘ normal distribution ’ .
22 The Home Office is to produce a Code of Practice on the use of video recordings for this purpose .
23 The challenge is to produce a car which is more attractive to more people and costs less to make , and to minimise or eliminate any social embarrassment in running one .
24 One line of the research is to produce an image database of authenticated diatom species which will be of international significance .
25 One of the duties of a Princess of Wales is to produce an heir .
26 Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry .
27 The result has been to produce a society of great institutional depth .
28 And the effect of this , over the last two thousand years odd , upon the intelligent observer , has been to produce a mood , or even a philosophy , of scepticism .
29 When putting together the range and support materials said , ‘ Our objective was to produce a range which is simple and exciting to sell , attractive for the merchant to stock and easy for the farmer to use .
30 Its job was to produce a system of assessment , ‘ including the marking scale or scales ’ ( DES 1988a : Terms of Reference ) .
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