Example sentences of "and improve the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In establishing its parameters for employment land provision of county in its eight constituent districts , the County Council 's intention has been to sustain and improve the economic wellbeing of the county by ensuring that continuous supply and a wide choice of sites can be made available . |
| 2 | James V certainly moved to meet the threat , with acts like those of 1535 and 1541 against heresy , and , more interestingly , acts designed to safeguard and improve the spiritual standing of the Catholic church : reform , in other words , from within . |
| 3 | This project has five aims : to extend and improve the data base by field visits , especially of urban immigrants ; to correct and improve the existing archives ; to devise ways of incorporating some qualitative detail from field notes ; to devise ways of incorporating some qualitative detail from field notes ; to devise ways of analysing and manipulating the archive to support a published account of the changes in the villages in terms of the idea of a published account of the changes in the villages in terms of the idea of a complex network of causal interactions ; and finally to collect initial experimental data in planing marriages and on finding non-agricultural employment , with a view to collaboration in a future study of the social sources and social distribution of knowledge , using data from Pakistan , turkey and London , in collaboration with Dr Michael Fischer . |
| 4 | The 1970s saw the beginning of serious and substantial attempts to understand and improve the financial reporting practices of public sector organizations . |
| 5 | Casting a critical eye over the mock-up , Adml Eaton said : ‘ We are always wishing to get fewer people in ships and so one of ways is to try and improve the human interface with the machinery . |
| 6 | At present there are very few CAD products which will significantly aid and improve the ideas-centred design process . |
| 7 | Thus Byrne ( 1981:70 — 84 ) creates five categories : ( 1 ) protective services , such as police and fire , that seek to Protect the citizen from various dangers , ( 2 ) environmental services to control and improve the physical environment such as highways , transport and planning ; ( 3 ) personal services , such as education , housing and social work , that seek to enhance personal welfare ; ( 4 ) amenity services , such as museums , theatres and sports facilities that provide for citizens ' leisure time ; and ( 5 ) trading services for which local authorities make commercial charges . |
| 8 | Anthropologists in various parts of the world have found groups of men who have gone to remarkable lengths to modify and improve the sexual equipment with which nature endowed them . |