And inquiries at the small town hall produced the same shrugs.

But by nature, such an inquiry cannot produce a complete picture of how a historical event happened.

Such inquiries had produced a considerable number of names, the official added.

For investigators and the public, the inquiry has produced more questions than answers.

But the authorities said yesterday that these unusual inquiries had produced no evidence of criminal conduct.

Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour's vision of what inner-cities should be like.

The two earlier inquiries about the Yemenite babies produced only limited findings.

The commission also opened an inquiry on whether to let telephone companies produce programs.

But my inquiry (perhaps not very respectfully put to the heir of an empire who already thought me a threat) produced only anger.

His polite inquiry produced fear and anxiety in her face.