I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a factory produces/makes sth
▪ The factory produces an incredible 100 cars per hour.
a firm produces sth
▪ Our firm produces computer software for the business market.
build/manufacture/produce sth to ... specifications
▪ The airport building had been constructed to FAA specifications.
cause/produce a sensation
▪ The drug can produce strange sensations in some patients.
create/produce a design
▪ Use your imagination to create an interesting design in the garden.
create/produce a sculpture
▪ Local artists were asked to create sculptures for the garden.
create/produce/establish a code
▪ They have established a code of practice for advertisers.
draw up/produce a checklist (=make one)
▪ Why not draw up a checklist of things you want to achieve this year?
farm produce
▪ Moldova provides Russia with large quantities of farm produce.
generate/produce electricity
▪ We need to find cleaner ways of generating electricity.
generate/produce energy
▪ a power plant that generates energy from household waste
make/produce a click
▪ He made a click of disapproval.
organic produceformal (= food produced by organic farming)
▪ The store stocks a wide range of organic produce.
produce a crop
▪ The land is so poor that much of the seed will not produce a crop.
produce a performance
▪ Tiger Woods produced one of the best performances of his career.
produce a result
▪ A different approach might produce some interesting results.
produce an effectformal
▪ If we combine these sounds, they produce an effect that is almost jazzy.
produce chemicals
▪ the dangerous chemicals produced by burning oil
produce evidence (=find evidence and prepare it for a court case)
▪ The case was adjourned to allow the police time to produce further evidence.
produce flowers
▪ The plant will produce beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers.
produce goods
▪ The company started a factory in Singapore, to produce goods for export.
produce light (also emit lighttechnical)
▪ the light produced by the sun
produce oil (=to have natural areas of oil, and take it out of the ground)
▪ The US does not produce enough oil to meet its own needs.
produce/bring out an edition (=of a book, newspaper, or other product)
▪ This special edition of the VW Beetle was produced in the 1970s.
produce/stage a play (=arrange its performance)
provide/produce an analysis
▪ The report provided an analysis of the problems we need to address.
provoke/produce/bring a reaction
▪ The decision provoked an angry reaction from the local tourist industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
▪ Martin Baloch, Manchester I work as a programmer for a company that produces business software.
▪ That will filter through to companies that produce goods and services.
▪ Equally there are commercial companies that produce, distribute, and market their product on a global basis.
▪ Other companies that produce site blocking software are expected to follow suit.
▪ We would love to see companies producing insulation, perhaps with money invested by other countries.
▪ Dramatists during the period frequently collaborated on their work and the dramatists were also close to the companies producing their plays.
▪ The new factory made it possible for the company to produce increasingly elaborate garments.
▪ In addition, most companies will produce an overhead budget and allocate responsibility for its monitoring and control.
document
▪ But it would have been useless to produce the documents in Rome, for they contained no decisive evidence in favour of the primacy.
▪ In this chapter, you will learn some methods for producing such documents.
▪ The teacher unions and professional associations have produced clear and accurate documents for their members which inevitably highlight these problems.
▪ Whilst these seminars will not produce a negotiated document, particular attention should be given to improving follow-up. 15.
▪ One of the Group's tasks is to produce technical briefing documents.
▪ The deadline for producing the documents is March 14.
▪ The White House has agreed to produce documents and to allow its officials to be interviewed by the Senate investigators.
effect
▪ The purpose is to determine which treatments produce effects over and above placebo levels.
▪ This plant grows abundantly over the whole aquarium and produces fine visual effects with an underwater light source.
▪ Chin-cloths were usually removed before the fitting of the headgear, the tapes of the latter producing the same effect.
▪ However, including blacks in real estate ads does produce positive effects for black readers.
▪ Embracing Mary Shelley, enjoying her love and her perfumes, had produced the greatest solvent effect so far.
▪ This fascination with image produced a strange effect.
▪ This does not produce the same effects as lifting the accelerator altogether; it just maintains a balanced throttle.
▪ There is some doubt as to whether a latent inhibitor can produce this effect.
goods
▪ In the next chapter we examine why the public sector may wish to produce private goods.
▪ Such economic nationalists favored import-substitution strategies that reduced the need for foreign currency by producing vital goods domestically.
▪ The whole place seemed designed to produce, not goods for the outside world, but misery for the inmates.
▪ If only those firms which produce goods wanted by consumers can operate profitably, only those firms will demand resources.
▪ IIb produces only luxury goods which are consumed solely by the capitalists.
▪ Rather, production decisions are dominated by actors who produce those goods that they believe will maximize their own resources.
▪ Both have had their chances and failed to produce the goods.
▪ In practice, however, many organizations produce and sell goods in markets which are not competitive.
number
▪ Book publishers all over the world have joined the rugby boom, producing a record number of books.
▪ In reality, outputs are being produced at a number of stages of the analysis.
▪ The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people.
▪ Natural numbers can be added or multiplied together to produce new natural numbers.
▪ The second variant is the one that has produced the greatest number of specific theories of cyclical crisis.
▪ If it stops producing, large numbers of other units whose work follows from this group can not function.
▪ In addition, it is planned to produce a number of purpose-built datasets for research and teaching purposes.
▪ Thus, while our diagonal procedure will produce some real number, that number will not be a computable number.
output
▪ Economic growth A country must experience economic growth if it is to produce a greater output of goods and services.
▪ Like all businesses, farmers must purchase inputs to produce a marketable output.
▪ Equating marginal cost and marginal revenue, each firm will produce an output at which price exceeds marginal cost.
▪ It is considered complete when the neural network produces the required outputs for a given sequence of inputs.
▪ Art can be created by groups, producing output that is a synthesis of their likes and dislikes.
▪ The new engine will produce a power output previously unheard of for a Harley.
▪ With suitable lowpass filtering either type of signal can be smoothed to produce a proper audio output.
▪ Each of these documents was processed by the confusion program to produce simulated recognition output.
product
▪ An example of such an organization is General Electronics that produces military products such as radar, underwater defence, and missile systems.
▪ Those who invented new products would produce those products during the initial, high-profitability, high-wage, Stages of their life cycle.
▪ Transport workers, therefore, do not have to be employed in the service industries to produce service products.
▪ This means that if countries are suffIciently unequal in size, whichever country is larger will produce all the increasing-returns products.
▪ During the summer these may include small animals known as dinoflagellates, which produce toxic waste products.
▪ Consider a world with a number of sectors, some of which produce differentiated products.
▪ Other grants are offered to help farmers produce the most suitable products.
▪ For example, a product manager in the marketing department may discover that one plant in manufacturing is producing defective products.
report
▪ Brown said the Navy had produced a report saying the island was stable.
▪ The basic idea is that the quicker it produces its report the better.
▪ We usually instruct doctors who specialise in producing medico-legal reports and who have proven themselves in giving evidence in the past.
▪ I assume the present senior chief inspector will produce his annual report next year.
▪ After various delays it produced a report, Nitrate in Water, in December 1986.
result
▪ But, until recently, to produce a professional looking result meant employing professionals to look after the work for you.
▪ Similar causes tend to produce similar results.
▪ They are easy to use and often appear to produce quite good results.
▪ A study in Luton produced similar results.
▪ The notion of accessibility strikes me as superficial, and produces the least interesting results.
▪ So no real number, positive or negative, squares to produce a negative result.
■ VERB
fail
▪ But if repeated calls fail to produce an answer the officer may subsequently need to account for himself.
▪ If they failed to produce, any-thing might happen in the competitive atmosphere of the Post newsroom.
▪ Clean-up contracts will be more stringently managed and terminated if they fail to produce results.
▪ It was quite a liberal adjustment, but failed to produce any measurable results.
▪ Talks with commercial bank creditors over two days were reported on June 21 to have failed to produce concrete results.
▪ The change from adversity to prosperity, according to Aristotle, fails to produce the proper tragic effect.
▪ Extra-time failed to produce a winner so a penalty shootout was needed.
▪ And it failed to produce a ticket more welcome in the South.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dairy products/produce
▪ Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce.
▪ However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish.
▪ However, households also paid sharply more for some items they bought every few days, such as gasoline and dairy products.
▪ In general, nondairy products such as whipped toppings coffee creamers, and margarine are replacing the corresponding dairy products.
▪ No oil, dairy products or sweeteners are added so the principle of slow rise will prevail.
▪ She pruned her diet drastically, cutting down dairy produce and other foods high in cholesterol.
▪ The most harmful type are saturated animal fats, found in meat and dairy products.
▪ Vegans: Vegetarians who eat neither eggs nor dairy products may have a tough time consuming enough vitamin B-12.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a factory that produces high-quality steel
▪ Aaron Spelling has produced numerous hit TV shows.
▪ Anthea felt pressure from the family to produce a son.
▪ Cancer is destroying his body's ability to produce white blood cells.
▪ Carbon dioxide is produced during respiration.
▪ During the argument, one of the men produced a knife.
▪ Failure to produce a valid insurance certificate may result in criminal prosecution.
▪ Kuleto's Bakery produces some of the finest pastries in town.
▪ Nuclear power plants produce twenty percent of the country's energy.
▪ Poisonous gases are produced by improperly burned fuel.
▪ The company produces over 200 sewing machines a month.
▪ The dairy produced over 1500 tonnes of butter per year.
▪ The defendants were able to produce documents showing they were the legal heirs.
▪ The drug is known to produce severe side effects in some people.
▪ The man fired from the car window when he was asked by a police officer to produce a license for the weapon.
▪ The region produces most of the state's corn.
▪ The stomach produces acids which help to digest food.
▪ They produce cheap goods for export to the United States.
▪ Very few artists are producing the kind of original work Larson is.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A ledger was produced from within the desk, its pages blue-ruled, like a composition book.
▪ Any herbs that are added are also organically produced on the farm.
▪ If only a single copy is needed then it is logical to produce it on the page printer.
▪ Its bite produces a worm which swells up the blood vessels, causing ulcers and, in the worst cases, blindness.
▪ The electrodes intersect at each pixel to produce the required activation voltage.
▪ Walsh produced a static listing at first, updating it once a month.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
▪ A readjustment of prices for agricultural produce would also be needed.
▪ There are three exceptions, relating to land, primary agricultural produce and unprocessed game.
▪ But tariffs on such key goods as steel, agricultural produce, vehicles, and textiles average between 25 and 50 percent.
▪ The markets are well supplied with agricultural produce, and with linens and yarns from the surrounding country.
▪ With little or no industry, Savoy exported next to nothing apart from agricultural produce.
▪ Gradually coffee came to replace maize as the main agricultural produce of the community and foodstuffs were bought with surplus cash.
▪ From the beginning of 1992 agricultural produce was to be traded at free market prices throughout the country.
fresh
▪ Bernie takes his bland government sedan to the local grocery store and trundles his way down the fresh produce aisle.
▪ Some of our frozen products are fresher and taste fresher than our fresh produce, Ginsburg said.
▪ Good home-cooking is prepared, using fresh and local produce.
▪ Generally, neither fresh meat nor produce is stocked.
▪ Eat as much fresh produce as possible rather than relying on tinned, packed and frozen foods.
▪ The beamed Burgundy Restaurant offers a tabled'hôte and àlacarte menu using fresh local produce.
local
▪ The adjacent Gelli Farm Restaurant offers a high cuisine with local produce and home cooking.
▪ Using local produce, the food is imaginative, wholesome and substantial.
▪ The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible.
▪ Good home-cooking is prepared, using fresh and local produce.
▪ The beamed Burgundy Restaurant offers a tabled'hôte and àlacarte menu using fresh local produce.
▪ He brought that idea back and transformed his business from a local produce store to the beginnings of national distribution.
▪ The menu at Ayton Hall is based on fresh local produce and there is a comprehensive wine list.
▪ Good home cooking is served and fresh local and garden produce are used.
organic
▪ If you can only afford to buy a certain amount of organic produce, potatoes would be a good choice.
▪ Everything depends upon the on-going premium for organic produce.
▪ The trouble is, organic produce is not cheap.
▪ Retailers are constantly unable to meet demand for organic produce and import around 60 percent from abroad.
▪ He also recognised a growing market for organic produce.
▪ The report anticipates sales of organic produce to rise from last year's £900 million to £2.7 billion by 1995.
▪ Whenever possible, organic and free-range produce is served.
▪ Comfortable restaurant with an imaginative menu using organic produce.
■ NOUN
dairy
▪ Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce.
▪ She pruned her diet drastically, cutting down dairy produce and other foods high in cholesterol.
▪ Chapter 2 has touched on food intolerance in the case of dairy produce.
▪ It is also obtained in liver, kidney, dairy produce, and eggs.
farm
▪ Besides our farm produce and the agency supplies, fish were plentiful and so was wild meat.
▪ We should add that animals and farm produce are no longer allowed on public transport.
▪ There is also the possibility of genuine rotation which will fit in with other farm produce.
▪ At the Wednesday market an open-air auction of poultry, farm produce and second-hand items of great variety is conducted.
▪ Moves towards free markets for farm produce and other commodities were firmly rejected.
▪ The farm produce was now used exclusively to feed the troops.
▪ Similarly, anyone who engages in an activity once removed from farming, such as processing farm produce, will not qualify either.
garden
▪ In particular, millions of pounds of market garden produce will be destroyed by dust during the construction period.
▪ In addition, an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products.
▪ He also owned a shop on the main street, selling hardware and tinned foods and some garden produce.
▪ The island of Porto Santo grows cereals, vines, figs, market garden produce, melons and pumpkins.
▪ But even this little collection of cottage garden produce won't change hands without some stern bargaining.
▪ Good home cooking is served and fresh local and garden produce are used.
▪ Coconuts and other garden produce were grown everywhere and fishing was an important industry in seaside villages.
▪ Peasants put more energy into growing coconuts and garden produce for the market.
■ VERB
grow
▪ The hotel grows its own produce and its wines are highly recommended.
sell
▪ An expert in the field of marketing, he has been successful in selling his produce to large multiples and wholesalers.
▪ He finally sold the produce to an apple slicer for less than what he says the fruit cost to grow and harvest.
▪ At every station the locals wandered through the carriages selling local produce: plates of stew, sweets, bags of oranges.
▪ Flat rate farmers will be able to charge the flat rate addition when selling zero-rated agricultural produce to VAT-registered traders.
▪ They have to widen their skills to sell and market their produce.
use
▪ Cliff is the cook, and loves the job, especially as he can use produce from the greenhouse and herb garden.
▪ The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible.
▪ Good home-cooking is prepared, using fresh and local produce.
▪ The beamed Burgundy Restaurant offers a tabled'hôte and àlacarte menu using fresh local produce.
▪ It fitted in with my policy of using fresh, natural produce.
▪ Comfortable restaurant with an imaginative menu using organic produce.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a produce market
▪ fresh produce
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He brought that idea back and transformed his business from a local produce store to the beginnings of national distribution.
▪ Look like produce been rolled over by a truck.
▪ On the back wall of the produce shed hangs a schoolroom map of the continental United States.
▪ The hotel grows its own produce and its wines are highly recommended.
▪ Third World governments build roads which help farmers to market their produce and schools which create a literate and numerate workforce.