Example sentences of "to produce a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * I always think that it is best to pour the tea onto milk in the cup as this distributes the milk more evenly — it also seems to produce a better colour . |
| 2 | As well as being an aid then , being cool is also seen as an obstacle to digging deep into the ultimate reserves under stringent conditions to produce a better performance . |
| 3 | Neither in the production of variations nor in the elimination of disadvantageous variations is there any reference to an ‘ end ’ of producing ‘ fit ’ or successful species : the probability of variations occurring , or of a particular variation occurring , is independent of the need for change to produce a better ‘ fit ’ between organism and environment , or of that variation being successful . |
| 4 | Any regularity in monitoring activities allows the discharger , in anticipation of a sample being taken , an opportunity to step up his pollution control to produce a better effluent . |
| 5 | They painted samples in an exercise designed to produce a better understanding of the Ecotech concept of more environmentally sensitive products . |
| 6 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 7 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 8 | An inspection of the Models and the Testimonials of the most eminent of the Medical Profession of the country can not fail to produce a decided conviction in their superiority . |
| 9 | Thus the traditional coppiced woods , in which chestnut trees were cut close to the base to produce a regular supply of straight sticks , left grassland in between that was sometimes open ( when the sticks were harvested ) and sometimes shaded ( when the crop was grown ) . |
| 10 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 11 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I then switched all the processors on at once , each with a different patch to produce a compressed , pitch shifted sound with reverb and a really big delay … and it all worked ! |
| 14 | The effort is apparently different from DICOP , an action previously undertaken by Mitsubishi Electric Corp , Unisoft Ltd , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , Novell Inc , Unisys Corp , Seiko Epson Co , ASCII Corp and even DEC to produce a Japanese version of the COSE desktop . |
| 15 | The effort is apparently different from DICOP , an action previously undertaken by Mitsubishi Electric Corp , Unisoft Ltd , In C Olivetti & Co SpA , Novell Inc , Unisys Corp , Seiko Epson Co , ASCII Corp and even DEC to produce a Japanese version of the COSE desktop . |
| 16 | Where there is some coloration of the water or fine silt settling very slowly , the water can be dosed at this stage with an agent such as aluminium sulphate , to produce a flocculent precipitate that settles fairly rapidly and carries down colour and silt . |
| 17 | One recoils from the obvious answer , which is that the Home Secretary wants yet again to produce a cheap headline in the popular press such as ’ Crackdown on crime ’ , by producing , as the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said , a modest and short Bill . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 20 | The burial plots were used to produce a temporal and spatial guide to regional maturity and gas generation history . |
| 21 | It should be an easy task to produce a comparative table listing official language policies . |
| 22 | As the purpose of teaching is to produce a planned change in students , it is essential that those whose responsibility it is to produce the change should be clear not only about their intentions but about the assumptions on which those intentions are based . |
| 23 | I do not believe that it is possible to produce a predictive model of code switching , in other words , to derive inductively a set of rules which would predict the actual code of any " next utterance " in a conversation . |
| 24 | Roland seem to be almost alone in their grim resolve to produce a usable , glitch-free machine that will coax the average guitarist through that door marked MIDI . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Quantifiable problems can be resolved by mathematical techniques , to produce a quantifiable decision . |
| 27 | It boasts a stirring menu of international wordsmiths including two Inuit Eskimos who will ‘ throat dance ’ — they stand nose-to-nose bouncing their voices off each other 's throats to produce a bewildering array of sounds . |
| 28 | Bentham ( 1970 : 179 ) himself propounded the principle of ‘ frugality ’ ( or ‘ parsimony ’ ) , which states that punishments should be no more severe than they need to be to produce a utilitarian quantity of deterrence . |
| 29 | Thomson , and a reformist journalist called Adolphe Smith , set out to produce a similar but better document on urban poverty , this time using photography for more accurate illustrations . |
| 30 | After failing to persuade his employer to produce a similar program , Ward developed one of his own , in partnership with an American programmer called Rusty Luring . |