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‘A commodity may undergo a production.’

[⟨det commodity.nundergo.v ⟨det production.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The U.S.’ aim in the Near East is not to grab Iraq’s oil for its own use, but to control the production and distribution of this vital commodity in order to dominate their imperialist allies and rivals in Europe and Japan.
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In Wikipedia:

This became known as the “Grand Lease”, and the Hostmen came to be known as the “Lords of Coal”, as they now controlled both production and export of this commodity.
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In Wikipedia:

As time passed, colonial agriculture, industry, transportation, trade, finance and government activities tended to be subordinated to the production of staple commodities for industrial Britain, and later for the rapidly – developing United States.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Expressed another way, the exchange – value of a commodity is not determined by the quantity of labor expended by each individual producer engaged in the production of this commodity, but by the quantity of labor socially necessary to produce it.
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In Project Gutenberg:

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In the British National Corpus:

While stabilisation of the production and price of essential commodities can be seen as legitimate functions of an international organisation, they inevitably involve purely commercial dealings which should not be carried out without the objective protection of an applicable legal system and the availability of a judicial or arbitral forum for the resolution of commercial disputes.
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In Project Gutenberg:

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In the British National Corpus:

The exertions of all the different kinds of labour that are directly or indirectly involved in making it; together with the abstinences or rather the waitings required for saving the capital used in making it: all these efforts and sacrifices together will be called the real cost of production of the commodity.
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In Wikipedia:

In 2006, the province contributed 608 billion VND (US $ 38 million) to the state budge (of the total US $ 15.68 billion) or 0.024 % only The province agriculture is comprehensively developed with the direction of production of commodities.
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In the British National Corpus:

Both can state powerful claims for import saving and the production of essential commodities.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Some good insight from the floor of the Senate on Monday: On the morning of October 30, 1929, President Herbert Hoover awoke the day after the biggest one – day stock market crash in American history, surveyed the state of the U.S. economy and declared,’ The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis. ’
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

On October 25, 1929, a day after what is now known as Black Thursday, Hoover declared: The fundamental business of the country, that is the production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
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In the British National Corpus:

In calculating the expenses of production of a commodity we must take account of the fact that changes in the amounts produced are likely, even when there is no new invention, to be accompanied by changes in the relative quantities of its several factors of production.
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In the British National Corpus:

The analysis of the expenses of production of a commodity might be carried backward to any length; but it is seldom worth while to go back very far.
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In Wikipedia:

The production of any commodity generally requires both labour and some produced means of production (or capital goods), like tools and materials.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Which statement belongs to which era – 1929 or 2008? a) the fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities is on a sound and prosperous basis b) the economy is fundamentally sound c) the fundamentals are sound d) when I look around the world and look at the long – term economic fundamentals we have in this country I think they compare favorably with what I see in any major developed country in the world.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The fundamental business of the country, that is, production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis. – Herbert Hoover, October 1929, in wake of Great Depression
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The argument that crisis is caused by the over production of commodities for which there is a lack of demand is called the’ ‘underconsumption’’ argument.
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In Wikipedia:

In both cases, the regulation is squarely within Congress’ commerce power because production of the commodity meant for home consumption, be it wheat or marijuana, has a substantial effect on supply and demand in the national market for that commodity Scalia’s opinion.
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Queried on 2013-06-18.