Example sentences of "[vb infin] produced a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | unresolved oedipal problems ( which formerly might have produced a typical hysteria ) may today lead to a state of unrestrained and self-destructive acting out , and to delinquency , simulating a picture of psychosis , as the ego remains weak and the superego ineffectual in the face of uncontrolled drives . |
| 2 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 3 | These plants probably had high levels of insoluble carbohydrates in their cell walls , principally cellulose , and may also have produced a wide variety of toxic plant secondary compounds . |
| 4 | If a Labour Prime Minister had died or retired whilst in office the Parliamentary Party election procedure would have produced a new leader . |
| 5 | The 1931 result , of course , left a great deal of room for recoil , but even so , the average of these results , if reflected in a general election , would have produced a substantial Labour majority in the House of Commons . |
| 6 | So there were two key consequences ; one was that universities came to see that planning of such change might have produced a better result : the other that vengeful dons denied Mrs Thatcher her honorary degree from Oxford . |
| 7 | On the other hand , there were steps which de Gaulle might have taken in 1944 – 46 — steps which might have produced a better outcome on the ( to him ) all-important issue of the constitution and might also have bolstered his popularity . |
| 8 | More frequent change would have produced a counterproductive restlessness . |
| 9 | We can not know whether a British Government that genuinely wanted a Russian alliance could have produced a different result — but it would have stood a chance . |
| 10 | The London stockbrokers County Natwest Wood Mackenzie reported on Dec. 21 their calculation that the only major stock market in which a sterling investor would have realized an average gain during 1990 would have been Mexico , where booming market conditions would have produced a 53.2 per cent profit ; the UK , by comparison , would have produced a 7.7 per cent average loss , the West German market would have brought a 21.4 per cent loss , and the USA a 17.1 per cent loss . |
| 11 | The London stockbrokers County Natwest Wood Mackenzie reported on Dec. 21 their calculation that the only major stock market in which a sterling investor would have realized an average gain during 1990 would have been Mexico , where booming market conditions would have produced a 53.2 per cent profit ; the UK , by comparison , would have produced a 7.7 per cent average loss , the West German market would have brought a 21.4 per cent loss , and the USA a 17.1 per cent loss . |
| 12 | In 1985 , a television programme revealed that the solvent Skuse had used in the test for nitroglycerine , 1 per cent caustic soda , would also have produced a positive result if the men had handled nitrocellulose . |
| 13 | However , insufficient height was available to install windows copying the attenuated shape of the original ‘ lancets ’ and the unquestioning reproduction of the arch form in the new windows would have produced a weaker visual result than the treatment which was adopted — the insertion of new tripartite lights capped by a simple square-headed profile ( Plates 18 and 19 ) . |
| 14 | Therefore , if we had taken our cue from these public styles , we would have produced a top-heavy account that would have been of only marginal importance to the social ‘ life ’ of the speech community . |
| 15 | Some referees would have produced a red card instantly , but Alan Flood decided that the challenge only merited a yellow . |
| 16 | This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) . |
| 17 | Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions . |