Example sentences of "of production was " in BNC.

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1 Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs .
2 Marx referred throughout his work to other systems than the capitalist system , especially those which he knew from the history of Europe to have preceded capitalism ; systems such as feudalism , where the relation of production was characterized by the personal relation of the feudal lord and his serf and a relation of subordination which came from the lord 's control of the land .
3 In any case , neither the Germanic nor the Slavonic mode of production was of much significance for Marx 's and Engels 's later work , and the same is true for most Marxist studies .
4 The sequence of production was as follows : 1 Centre drill shell base ; 2 rough machine outer surface ; 3 finish machine outer surface ; 4 recess base for base plate ( this removed the centring ) ; 5 turn base plate ; 6 roll to secure base plate ; 7 reface base end ; 8 heat shell nose end ; 9 press form shell nose ; 10 finish turn shell nose and thread internally for fuse ; 11 part copper driving band from tube ; 12 heat copper band ; 13 press copper band into recess in shell body ; 14 turn copper band to profile ; 15 inspection ; 16 shellac spray shell cavity and 17 grease outer surface .
5 The peak of production was reached between 1850 and 1875 , during which period up to 200 men and women were employed in the trade , mainly in Mauchline but with a few in neighbouring villages .
6 Disproportionality between the branches of production was therefore seen as a result of the basic disproportion , i.e. that between production and consumption .
7 About 85 per cent of production was for BGS projects , and minor repayment contracts accounted for the rest .
8 Later elite theorists , often disillusioned ex-Marxists , also argued that private ownership of the means of production was not the basis of economic class formation in either pre-industrial societies or the industrialized state-socialist societies ( Wittfogel , 1957 ; Burnham , 1941 ) .
9 Althusser suggests that although Marxist history is defined as a theory of the modes of production , Marx did not give us any theory of how the transition was effected from one mode of production to another , nor of how each mode of production was constituted .
10 For the present , let us note that in Marx 's view of history as a dialectical process , just as in a society whose mode of production was feudal , with its ‘ contradictions ’ , a ruling class of landowners had been overthrown by an exploited peasantry , so too in a society whose mode was bourgeois would the capitalists be overthrown by the proletariat .
11 Before that time the largest unit of production was what Defoe calls in Yorkshire the ‘ work-house ’ .
12 The accepted explanation was that the capitalist system of production was based on selfishness since only some in the community could prosper , as their prosperity had to be at the expense of others .
13 Although its moment of production was restricted to the years 1931–3 , the time sequence in the novel itself covers the historical period 1864–1929 , corresponding with the life-span of Antoine Bloye , the central character .
14 Over 3 g C m -2 were fixed daily during the summer peak , and the annual rate of production was estimated at 173.0g C m -2 ( Light et al . ,
15 Under feudalism , Marxists argue , the dominant mode of production was based on the ownership of land .
16 For instrumental Marxists , however , a change in the power structure of society arose , not because of conscious efforts by committed individuals at the political or social levels of society , but because this feudal mode of production was fundamentally challenged by an alternative and technically more efficient mode of production .
17 In those societies where the third estate was initially weak — and during its subsequent development in the nineteenth century became more clearly divided into distinct classes — the bourgeoisie , already threatened by the labour movement , embraced a more conservative type of nationalism , and the creation of a modern nation state based upon the capitalist mode of production was accomplished in a more authoritarian fashion by what has been called a ‘ revolution from above ’ ( Moore , 1967 ) .
18 However , most of the production capacity was still in place during the 1990/91 period covered by the survey and in any case the majority of production was destined for the home market .
19 Contrasting the different methods of production was a valuable exercise to those unfamiliar with traditional weaving methods with many unique sales points being identified in the process .
20 The stock of these means of production was 2½ times as great in 1973 as it was in 1952 .
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