Example sentences of "was to produce a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Its job was to produce a system of assessment , ‘ including the marking scale or scales ’ ( DES 1988a : Terms of Reference ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The overall mood was to produce a settlement without a hint of deliberate confrontation in the air , ’ he said . |
| 4 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 5 | His aim at first was to produce a body of work which would sell . |
| 6 | Originally the OSF was to produce a version of Unix based on IBM 's implementation , AIX . |
| 7 | The Eastern Arts report of nineteen eighty six was never completed what the Eastern Arts did in actual fact was to produce a draft report and promised that the final report would be complete and circulate it as to date which is nineteen ninety-one we have not received the final report of the Eastern Arts appraisal . |
| 8 | It was agreed that the key strategy for the next 18 months — two years was to produce a network of interested people who would be valuable both as a resource and as a means of disseminating ideas and information . |
| 9 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 10 | One of the aims of the review was to produce a formula which was empirically based as opposed to the original RAWP formula , which included standardised mortality ratio as a proxy for need on theoretical grounds . |
| 11 | The second stage was to produce a sequence of ideas , and in a genuinely collaborative discussion to which all pupils contributed the sequence in Figure 2.2 was decided upon . |
| 12 | The reaction of members of the Consumer Credit Association of the UK , whose declared aim was to promote the highest standards within the unsecured credit industry , was to produce a Code of Practice . |
| 13 | The students ( all over 18 years of age ) chose a topic of interest to themselves and of potential use to others The students ' aim was to produce a database and they were thus involved in skills of defining their information needs , planning methods of acquiring information , and assessing the information needs of the users of the database . |
| 14 | The intention was to produce a quality system and procedure which could be accredited to BS 5750 . |
| 15 | She never discovered what chemical it was , but the immediate effect was to produce a headache , sore throat and intense irritation of the nose and eyes . |
| 16 | The Irish government , for its part , had insisted that it must be represented throughout any such talks on the grounds that the objective was to produce an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agreement , to which it was a co-signatory . |