Example sentences of "[is] to increase [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) is to increase the availability of equity capital to companies . |
| 2 | Mr Milne claimed : ‘ The action taken by the Harbour Board is to increase the cost for importers using the harbour by 600 per cent . |
| 3 | Lawrie Smith , skipper of the leading British maxi , Rothmans , is to increase the size of the crew from 13 to 16 for the voyage to Fremantle in Australia . |
| 4 | The first solution is to increase the size of the corpus ( assuming that a larger corpus were available ) . |
| 5 | The idea is to increase the Barn Owl population in the country by 50 per cent over the next 20 years . |
| 6 | The result is to increase the attractiveness of non-offensive ( or non-provocative ) defence strategies , based on the principle that all the activities of the military forces — ranging from their size , structure , weapons and logistics to their training , manoeuvres and war games — can be designed to provide an effective defence , but with virtually no offensive capability . |
| 7 | The third priority is to increase the scope of the employee 's interest in information less obviously relevant to himself , that is background information such as : objectives of higher management ; the aim of training and education ; aims of the whole enterprise ; information on policy and finances ; changes etc . |
| 8 | The fatal injury was a blow to the head , not a very heavy blow but the deceased had taken a substantial amount of alcohol in the hours before he suffered the injury , and the effect of alcohol is to increase the flow of blood to the brain so that , et cetera , et cetera , et cetera . |
| 9 | God is the Great Factory Farmer in the Sky ; closer and closer we are crammed together , the Pope our Bailiff , hatching our young for his profit , for , as the Bishop said to Marie Stopes , the purpose of man is to increase the flow of souls to God and to stand between God and his purpose is surely sin . |
| 10 | Its aim is to increase the public 's awareness of funerary culture and all things death-related by illustrating human attitudes to death at different periods of history . |
| 11 | A part disposal is occurring here — the effect is to increase the stake of the minority shareholders from 20% to 45% . |
| 12 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 13 | One experimental difficulty is that the solar corona has a finite refractive index ( varying as 1/ ( frequency ) 2 ) and the effect of the corona is to increase the delay . |
| 14 | The decision-making age must truly be shifted from 16 to 18 ; the way to do that is to increase the number of A-levels to six for university entrance , and require passes in all of them . |
| 15 | One of the eight set goals of the NHS , the largest employer of women in Europe , is to increase the number of qualified women accountants . |
| 16 | The plan is to increase the number to 100 by the end of the year . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the whole purpose of the reforms is to increase the number of inspections in schools , not reduce them , and that the monitoring and regulation of the new system will be such that it would not be in the professional interest of any inspector to try to fiddle a report ? |
| 18 | The only way in which the position can be improved is to increase the number of occupational therapists . |
| 19 | We think that one way of encouraging more women 's participation is to increase the number of women coaches , and therefore provide girls with more positive role models . |
| 20 | Its goal is to increase the number of Scottish women Labour MPs from the present ‘ unacceptably low ’ number of three , out of 49 Scottish Labour MPs . |
| 21 | One of the aims of the new housing legislation is to increase the amount of rented accommodation available , but as this is dependent on private sector financing it is feared that it will be of greater benefit to the better-off section of the community . |
| 22 | The announced intention behind the 1989 Housing Act is to increase the stock of rented housing — which has steadily diminished over the years . |
| 23 | Through intensive management training , its objective is to increase the business performance of existing companies in regeneration areas . |
| 24 | The plan is to increase the efficiency of the rail services , both for passengers and freight , by allowing private sector operators to run services on the network , widening choice for customers and increasing competition . |
| 25 | One of the main objectives of the White Paper proposals is to increase the efficiency of the NHS . |
| 26 | Since one of the major objectives of the White Paper is to increase the efficiency of the NHS , it is important that health care objectives are evaluated from an economic viewpoint and that monitoring arrangements are put in place to ensure that HAs and FPCs rise to the challenge . |
| 27 | The effect they have on performance is to increase the time taken for transactions on the Working-Set database . |
| 28 | Because the upper limits of resolution depend on the acoustic wavelength being used , the path researchers are following is to increase the sound frequency , thereby shortening the wavelength . |
| 29 | The overriding aim is to increase the value of the reports by providing more information , but this should not be at the expense of clarity . |
| 30 | The secret in such cases is to increase the rate of emptying and cleaning the litter tray . |