Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the number of facts established by observation and experiment grows , and as the facts become more refined and esoteric due to improvements in our observational and experimental skills , so more and more laws and theories of ever more generality and scope are constructed by careful inductive reasoning . |
| 32 | Leaving aside for the moment purely defensive moves , not calculated to increase efficiency , responses may , following Eisenberg 's terminology , lead to improvements in operating efficiency or resource efficiency . |
| 33 | His main thesis was that the rapid rise in earnings in advanced industrial societies was due to a large extent to improvements in the education and skills of workers . |
| 34 | One strategy involved tackling the profession on its own terms , refuting statistics and medical claims that the acts led to improvements in morality and public order through a mass of published tracts and pamphlets . |
| 35 | If symptoms and cognitive function were not dissociable then clozapine , noted for improving symptoms , should also lead to improvements in cognitive function . |
| 36 | This will be linked to improvements in the existing communities . |
| 37 | Solicitors ' firms believe that the most important changes which have led to improvements in their efficiency are the introduction of new technology and better management systems |
| 38 | The grass roots practitioner can play a major part in the process , by identifying phenomena whose investigation may lead to improvements in teaching and learning , and which may otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 39 | The Government have given renewed priority to improvements in the infrastructure — in roads and railways and other transport . |
| 40 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 41 | Is the Financial Secretary aware that , in some instances , greater competition may lead to improvements in quality , but that that does not automatically follow ? |
| 42 | The findings will contribute to improvements in the effectiveness of health education materials concerned with substance abuse . |
| 43 | They have also led to improvements in the managerial skills of staff in these organisations . |
| 44 | We strongly feel that the implementation of sound information policies will lead to improvements in efficiency , and hence to cost savings , whilst supporting a much higher level of research within the organization . |
| 45 | The workers were members of the Federation of Free Trade Unions , and were carrying out their July strike threat [ see p. 39021 ] , demanding rights and recognition equal to those enjoyed by former communist trade unions , in addition to improvements in pay and conditions . |
| 46 | Departmental research programmes , with several researchers working on different aspects of a single large problem , may lead to improvements in efficiency through sharing the costs of overheads , and should also decrease each researcher 's isolation by improving internal communication . |
| 47 | There are ample claims that reflection , proactive planning and a defensible allocation of resources lead to improvements in teaching and learning . |
| 48 | Cost reductions and a new IT system led to improvements in our chemicals distribution in North America and performance in Australia also advanced . |
| 49 | It will ultimately lead to improvements in yield . |
| 50 | The increased detection of anti-HEV in adults in our study could reflect a cohort of Turkish residents infected with HEV in the past and a younger generation unexposed to virus , due perhaps to improvements in sanitation . |
| 51 | These changes to the supply-side also lead to improvements in public sector budgetary positions , because of reductions in the costs of public procurement , and the growth of GDP which increases taxation revenues . |
| 52 | The Orion is also noticeably quieter , thanks to improvements like flush-fitted doors and glass and a sleeker shape all round . |
| 53 | Recovery was due mainly to improvements by Netherlands subsidiary Logica BV , both as a result of its reduced headcount and improved sales performance . |
| 54 | Not only are there fewer titles published today but the process of decline has also led to monopolies within large cities . |
| 55 | There was no initial prospect of romance between her and Ian , but it was suggested her admiration for the man would sometimes lead to under-currents of antagonism between her and Susan . |
| 56 | It is , he argues , almost impossible to gain access to the nature of working-class consciousness in the past ; secondly , political practice is more strongly related to strategy and tactics than to views of society ; and thirdly overarching concepts such as culture presuppose internal coherence . |
| 57 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 58 | On the southern flank great ridges stretch upwards to views of the crests and glaciers of the Italian Alps . |
| 59 | As to views of the stations , the numbers are as follows : |
| 60 | That your views were on those two questions , and let's take erm , let's stick to views of why do we need influencing , first of all . |