Example sentences of "[coord] to increase [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meat is not eaten and has no market value , but the dried eyes and the sexual organs of the boto are often sold as amulets to increase one 's attractiveness to the opposite sex , or to increase the bearer 's sexual powers . |
| 2 | As we shall see in Chapter 7 , the obvious policy solution is for the government to increase aggregate demand by increasing government expenditure or by reducing taxation , or to increase the money supply ( which will also increase aggregate demand ) . |
| 3 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 4 | Since the rail network has plenty of spare capacity and is environmentally more benign , the logical solution is either to subsidise rail fares , which the present government is obviously unwilling to do , or to increase the cost of motoring to the point where rail has the advantage ( and since rail is sometimes less convenient , it needs the edge on price ) . |
| 5 | A buy-back may be used to mop-up any " loose " shareholdings , return surplus cash to shareholders or to increase the marketability of the target 's shares as a consequence of it becoming known that the company itself is a potential purchaser . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 9 | Whatever the mechanism of the sale and to whom , the intention of privatisation is to increase economic efficiency ( Commander and Killick , 1988 ) and to increase the degree to which the country can become part of the global economy ( Vernon , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One solution was the improvement of administrative and managerial efficiency , but emphasis was increasingly placed upon the need to improve the physical and productive efficiency of the mass of the population , and to increase the size of that population . |
| 12 | And to increase the size of the economy tomorrow requires an increase — in saving and investment today . |
| 13 | The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society in Britain , for instance , has produced an information package for hospitals to attempt both to encourage a more sensitive approach by hospital staff to the management of stillbirth cases ( such as in disposing of the body ) and to increase the chance that families will rapidly be put in touch with their organisation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cash limits were intended to reduce the social cost of distortionary taxes elsewhere , to impose ‘ financial discipline ’ in the hope of attaining a performance that was closer to that which was cost-minimizing for any output , and to increase the bargaining power of management in wage negotiations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | $6,000 million shortfall Wilson unveiled plans to abandon promised income tax reductions from 26 per cent to 25 per cent for middle income earners , and to increase the income tax surcharge for upper income earners . |
| 19 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 20 | Compact should make it easier for schools to find industrial advisers for Mini-Enterprise and to increase the range of activities undertaken . |
| 21 | The origin of platelet activating factor released by the pancreas stimulated with caerulein is not known but it was shown earlier that caerulein and cholecystokinin are capable of increasing the incorporation of labelled acetate into platelet activating factor in the isolated pancreatic lobules and to increase the synthesis of this phospholipid . |
| 22 | i Cigarette smoking is believed to reduce fertility and to increase the frequency of abortion of chromosomally normal foetuses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We need to improve the levels of skills and qualifications of all our people and to increase the quantity and quality of the training that is available to them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Their refusal to curtail spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected . |
| 27 | Oestrogen is thought to reduce the rate at which bone is dissolved and to increase the rebuilding process . |
| 28 | It may not be possible to spend less on promotion and to increase the market share . |
| 29 | This economic lodestar was set to achieve for the UK a reduction in interest rates , a break in the long-ingrained inflationary tendencies that have afflicted the UK economy since the war , and to increase the momentum of developing trade links between the UK and the EC . |
| 30 | It was hoped to increase awareness of the library and its services and to increase the number of users . |