Example sentences of "[vb past] to produce a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council proposed to produce a revised document by July 1976 and receive applications from institutions in the following academic year — a timetable that in the event was overshot by some three years . |
| 2 | In many statistical investigations , information from a variety of sources must be sifted and collated to produce a consistent and logical explanation of some phenomenon . |
| 3 | If not , the reagent is too acid and a further gram of mercuric nitrate added to produce a slight cloudiness should produce the yellow precipitate . |
| 4 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 5 | The last act began only when the deep-seated problems of the southern rural economy intensified to produce an endemic rural poverty that persisted even after the wartime prices had ended . |
| 6 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 7 | The pressure gradient needed to produce a given flow rate is much larger when the flow is turbulent than when it is laminar ( Fig. 2.11 ) . |
| 8 | The Elton Committee managed to produce a comprehensive and widely supported report and a coherent set of recommendations in a relatively short period of time . |
| 9 | RIBA Services Ltd , whose 1991 result had been poor , managed to produce a small profit in 1992 . |
| 10 | Her teeth chattered as she managed to produce a small smile . |
| 11 | YET ANOTHER collection of mis-matched Mancunians , Interstella managed to produce a dee-liteful brand of pop music , a mid-air collision between the KLF and KC And The Sunshine Band . |
| 12 | YET ANOTHER collection of mis-matched Mancunians , Interstella managed to produce a dee-liteful brand of pop music , a mid-air collision between the KLF and KC And The Sunshine Band . |
| 13 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 14 | MENZIESHILL and John Christie yesterday combined to produce a devastating performance in the European club championship , when Amit Bucharest were beaten 25-0 in the B Division in Basle . |
| 15 | The " Canal Duke 's " vision and determination and his employment of the self-taught engineering genius James Brindley combined to produce a true " deadwater " link over a completely new route . |
| 16 | As a patient , I do believe that if the government , the media , and the medical profession combined to produce a national effort then the ignorance , the indifference and the arrogance could be wiped out . |
| 17 | He is expected to give a vote of confidence to the players who battled to produce a priceless victory in the relegation clash at Nottingham Forest on Saturday . |
| 18 | First , spilitic lavas were extruded , layer upon layer , and weathered to produce a staircase-like scenery ( or " trap topography " ) . |
| 19 | Hence at any film output below Q * ; the marginal utility of films exceeds the marginal utility of meals sacrificed to produce an extra film . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , to receive their Urban Programme funding , they had to produce an annual programme for submission to the Department of the Environment . |
| 21 | Oh got to produce a few sheets of stuff and we 've got ta get the addresses of the bases and get it distributed and it 's a task I 'm gon na pass on |
| 22 | The main points were ( i ) a tax of 0.3 per cent on financial transactions ( ITMF ) , in force until 1994 , but not applying to wage cheques , pension payments and popular savings accounts ; ( ii ) to fight tax evasion an instruction to banks to report in specific cases and at the Finance Minister 's request all movements of individuals ' and companies ' accounts ; ( iii ) the simplification of the tax system with the elimination of three social contributions and their replacement by valued added tax ( VAT ) of between 7 and 10 per cent ; ( iv ) the elimination of taxes on manufactured products , fuel sales and additional income , and their replacement by a selective tax ( the rate of which had yet to be specified ) on cars , alcoholic drinks , fuels , electricity and telecommunications ; ( v ) the elimination of the separate collection of taxes by state and municipal governments and another by municipal government , so that all taxes ( except the ITMF ) would be collected by the federal government and shared with the states and municipalities , expected to produce a real increase in their revenues of 9 and 17 per cent respectively ; and ( vi ) a ban on the contracting of fresh debts by the Federal District , states and the municipalities until the year 2000 . |
| 23 | On February 6 , before the withdrawal was complete , last-minute talks in Islamabad between the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze and Pakistani officials failed to produce a peaceful settlement to the civil conflict . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the nature of the relationship was always contested , and ultimately it failed to produce a lasting system of part-time day continuation schools . |
| 25 | Thereafter , the Duma could not be abolished altogether — not least for fear of undermining the confidence of Russia 's foreign creditors — yet even the drastic franchise reform of 1907 failed to produce a stable far-Right majority . |
| 26 | In Team D , however , the data collection strategy failed to produce a comparable sample , for various reasons concerned in part with the way the CSW approach operated ( see below ) . |
| 27 | The Cowboys lost for the second time this season , going down 27–23 to the Los Angeles Rams when Aikman failed to produce a last-minute miracle . |
| 28 | The meeting , however , failed to produce a satisfactory outcome ( at least so far as Harold Wilson was concerned ) , and I wrote a letter to the BBC demanding an apology in some ensuing programme . |
| 29 | Recent calculations with doubled CO 2 using a low-resolution general circulation model failed to produce an Arctic ozone hole partly , it appears , because the modelled January zonal mean temperatures in the Arctic lower stratosphere with current CO 2 were much higher than climatology . |
| 30 | Although the March general election failed to produce an outright winner , it ended the political chaos which had been associated with the final months of Blaize 's administration . |