Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] to increase [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 3 | In Mozambique TRANSAID is also helping SCF and the Government to rebuild roads and bridges destroyed by civil conflict and to increase the capacity of water transport to handle relief and rehabilitation supplies . |
| 4 | The administration 's " empowerment " agenda was intended to help low-income families with home ownership , to encourage parental " choice " in education and to increase the " choice " of poor families in such areas as child care and child health insurance . |
| 5 | Their effect would be not to stabilize output but to increase the fluctuations of output around its natural level — the precise opposite of what Keynesian policies aim to achieve . |
| 6 | When the Duke of Montrose arranged for his own appointment as bailie of the regality of Glasgow in the winter of 1714/15 , in order to prevent the office from being obtained by his rival the Duke of Argyll , the object was not to make money out of the profits of the court but to increase the duke 's influence in the city of Glasgow . |
| 7 | Even then , the Court had a discretion whether to increase the sentence or not . |
| 8 | A Bill will be presented to create an offence of prison mutiny and to increase the maximum penalty for aiding prisoners to escape . |
| 9 | Page sixteen structural maintenance of local roads erm I know that there is some possibility that er groups will propose an increase er a reduction in in that area and to increase the contribution from the management reserve fund . |
| 10 | The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net . |
| 11 | It may not be possible to spend less on promotion and to increase the market share . |
| 12 | It is possible to programme additional consequences into your weight control regime to strengthen your motivation and to increase the probability that what you want to happen actually does take place . |
| 13 | I assure him that the money spent on the health reforms will lead to greater efficiencies and savings — its purpose is to improve patient care and to increase the number of patients treated — and it is extra to the maintenance programme . |
| 14 | i Cigarette smoking is believed to reduce fertility and to increase the frequency of abortion of chromosomally normal foetuses . |
| 15 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 16 | Real wages were rising for those in , work , and living standards improved markedly in the Midlands and the South-East , serving both to diminish the political impact of unemployment and to increase the differentiation of the country . |
| 17 | In these circumstances this cost would therefore be relevant in the decision whether to increase the range of products . |
| 18 | In the factories the major focus of Communist activity was the campaign to increase production , waged in such a way as to increase the power of shop steward organizations , often in alliance with Government officials , at the expense of traditional managerial prerogative . |
| 19 | Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors ' overall responsibilities . |
| 20 | Every physical or chemical process in nature takes place in such a way as to increase the sum of the entropies of all the bodies taking part in the process . |
| 21 | In acupuncture , needles are inserted into specific acupuncture points in order to discharge an excessive build-up of energy or to increase the amount of energy , depending on the points used . |
| 22 | The M25 is being lit in an attempt to reduce the number of accidents , to enhance driver comfort and to increase the security of motorists whose vehicles have broken down . |
| 23 | The campaigns of the Black Prince in 1355 and 1356 , the defeats of French armies at Crécy and Poitiers ( not to mention that at Brignais in 1362 ) served to underline that lack of effectiveness and to increase the fears of the doubters . |