Example sentences of "[noun] to produce a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1971 the United States legislature passed a National Cancer Act , requiring the Director of the National Cancer Institute to produce a five year plan of his intentions . |
| 32 | This statement still remains true today despite the valiant and continuing voluntary efforts of the Land Decade Educational Council to produce a national land use survey by the late 1980s ( Balchin , 1981 ) . |
| 33 | Bumper rice crops in the late 1920s , however , combined with rice imports to produce a catastrophic fall in rice prices in 1930–1 . |
| 34 | So a fluctuating beam changed the resistance in the circuit to produce a varying current in the ear-piece which in turn created sound . |
| 35 | Indeed , those reports with a murder together with explicit sexual activities , perhaps involving some son of celebrity , would be the ‘ ideal ’ ingredients to produce a national soap opera . |
| 36 | Macedonian religious and cultural life continued to flourish under the Byzantines , with Greek and Bulgarian influences fusing with the original Slav elements to produce a rich tradition in literature , wall paintings and wood carving . |
| 37 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 38 | The larva heaps sand or soil onto its head and jaws and then flicks it with some force up and behind it , working in a circle to produce a conical pit . |
| 39 | Commencing with only three Divisions with their own examination structure , the number of Divisions in the RICS increased to seven and periodically the wheel is re-examined to establish whether it should turn full circle to produce a smaller number of specialist groups once again . |
| 40 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 41 | The action depends on the ability of the remedy to stimulate the body to produce a healing response — or , to put it another way , on the body 's ability to mount a healing response . |
| 42 | There was clearly every incentive to produce a challenging set of guidelines but the opportunity was missed . |
| 43 | This problem can be eliminated by , for instance , producing a bus bar with a range of slot spacings or doping the fibre to produce a slight spread of magnetic field period . |
| 44 | Increasing leisure time , thanks to the near-universal introduction of a five-day working week and paid holidays , has combined with increasing affluence to produce a rapid increase in daytrips to the country and , more recently , in the number of long-weekend and off-season holidays . |
| 45 | Alternatively , the surface can be rubbed with grade 00 or 000 steel wool and wax polish to produce a smooth satin or matt finish . |
| 46 | TMOS staff continue to collaborate closely with the Engineering Geology and Geophysics Group to produce a comprehensive engineering geology database for the West Birmingham area , and with Digital Cartography and Information Systems to evaluate computer-generated coloured geological and thematic maps . |
| 47 | However , we can not use a simple average ( mean ) of the four ratios for each township to produce a single multiplier factor because they were determined by different methods . |
| 48 | Despite her subsequent burning of nearly 300 committed Protestants , her efforts to reimpose Roman Catholicism were ultimately doomed by the brevity of her reign and her failure to produce a Catholic heir . |
| 49 | But though Catherine was clearly disappointed by its failure to produce a new code of laws as quickly and easily as she had hoped , and perhaps not very reluctant to end its activities , there is no doubt of the sincerity of her motives in calling it . |
| 50 | The deep-grained uncompetitiveness of the British economy , most notably its persistent failure to produce a sufficient supply of needed skills , has to be part of the explanation of such a trade imbalance . |
| 51 | No suitable candidates have yet been detected , but it is readily understood how such traces could arise : solar uv radiation and the thunderstorms which are known to occur in the Jovian atmosphere could act on various atmospheric constituents to produce a rich variety of coloured substances . |
| 52 | Although the trend is towards larger farms in terms of both production and acreage , the decline in the labour force is sufficiently outpacing the rate of farm amalgamation to produce a continuing decline in the average number of workers employed on each farm . |
| 53 | All managed somehow to merge their identities to produce a Euro-election manifesto in the name of the Green Party , which is the generic name under which the party appears on the voting slips . |
| 54 | The measures are designed to reinforce each other to produce a combined accident reduction which will make their introduction as a package cost-effective , even in areas with scattered accidents where normal ‘ value for money ’ criteria for accident prevention treatment are not met . |
| 55 | As Alan Oliver points out : ‘ We always have new stuff in the pipeline and odious little poet Oswald works without rest to produce a steady flow of obnoxious material from which we select anything that 's printable . ’ |
| 56 | However , the work involved in generating enough statistical observations to produce a reasonable sample size for an examination of 10 potential shares is still considerable and beyond the means and inclination of most private investors and quite a few professional investors/fund managers . |
| 57 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
| 58 | Can I just say , what he 's really saying between the lines is , are we really saying that these few hundred people might be a necessary sacrifice to produce a greying plan to redevelop ? . |
| 59 | According to the inventor , the ear generates a reference signal which mixes with incoming sounds to produce a composite signal . |
| 60 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |