Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to improve the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A petition calling for action to improve the safety of the London Road was launched this week . |
| 2 | Heightened awareness of Aboriginal health inequalities , coupled with acknowledgement of how disadvantaged Aborigines are in other aspects of life , has elicited cross party support for action to improve the situation . |
| 3 | The offer of further help was widely interpreted as attempt to improve the chances of the treaty being ratified by the requisite two-thirds majority of the 23-member Philippine Senate . |
| 4 | Phil Barber , Barnard Castle National Farmers ' Union branch secretary , condemned the Intervention Board 's decision , saying the operators were particularly upset because they had just spent a lot of money to improve the facilities to offer a better service to customers . |
| 5 | Puritano and Korb ( 1981 ) report the directions of the Secretary of Defense to improve the effectiveness of the PPB system . |
| 6 | A few additional strips around the top edge allow a strip of cedar to improve the looks , and shaping to improve comfort . |
| 7 | In Edinburgh a team of investigators from the Centre for Applications Software and Technology at the University of Edinburgh headed by Peter Burnhill will be using the University 's data library facilities as a test bed for the development of software to improve the links between user and software and software and data . |
| 8 | Were this competitive process to run its course to completion — in other words , were all decisions to become fully dovetailed — each participant would no longer be under pressure to improve the opportunities he is currently offering to the market , since no one else is offering more attractive opportunities [ … |
| 9 | Chief tourism officer for Blackpool Barry says work is already under way to improve the sea water there . |
| 10 | A £1.15m project has got under way to improve the drainage system and prevent homes in the Danesbury Drive area of York from flooding after heavy rain . |
| 11 | But the families in the little awkward places , at the heads of the small glens , on boggy ground that would not drain — they were nearly helpless , they trembled on the threshold of destitution , impaled on the horn of the one-year lease , uncertain whether it was worth going into debt to improve the ground and knowing that , even if they did , they could still be turned out next term day and their place annexed to the holding of a better-off neighbour . |
| 12 | In part , these studies have been designed to improve scientific knowledge of river systems and in part to improve the ability of hydrologists to forecast how changes in land use , for example through increasing urbanization , will affect river levels ( though the two are not necessarily distinct — improved scientific knowledge generally leads to improved accuracy in forecasting ) . |
| 13 | Together , these policies and policy statements reflect an overwhelming official concern in the current period of high unemployment with the position of young people in the labour market and , conversely , a lack of interest in action to improve the employment prospects of older workers . |
| 14 | Nevertheless an object , resting on the ground by its own weight alone , can be a fixture , if it be so heavy that there is no need to tie it into a foundation , and if it were put in place to improve the realty … |
| 15 | For instance the responsibilities of the four officers were rearranged to reflect the structure of the first resolution conceptual model ; the OIC personally addressed the issue of developing performance indicators for the system as a whole and the associated sub-systems ; and measures were put in hand to improve the handover of information about residents between shifts . |
| 16 | Regarding the parent body as a potential task force — using the technical skills of parents within school to improve the school fabric and the school grounds . |
| 17 | The National Library of Scotland is collaborating with the British Library and the other legal deposit libraries of the British Isles in a pilot project of shared cataloguing in order to improve the currency and coverage of catalogue records for British books by sharing the responsibility for the creation of those records . |
| 18 | Links were made and any experiences that black groups have had with the CAB were identified ; the work of the CAB was described and help was enlisted from the black community in order to improve the services that the CAB could offer them . |
| 19 | The question must arise again now , if only because people have suggested that in order to improve the education of our children we need to move back to some system of selection ( see for example Whose Schools ? |
| 20 | In February 1988 , the Church of the Stork 's Nest , on the corner of Stirbei Voda and Strada Berzei , not far from the shell of the new National History Museum , could be seen moving to a new resting place in order to improve the angle of the street . |
| 21 | We are considering many other aspects in order to improve the position of women in the civil service — to make it easier for them to take jobs , leave to have children , and return later . |
| 22 | The future of the PCE , which was the main component of the United Left ( IU ) coalition , was similarly subject to debate as some trade unionists and party activists suggested it should be dissolved into the IU at the PCE congress in December , in order to improve the IU 's electoral prospects . |
| 23 | The sensitivity and specficity of Helico-G in our study are also comparable with those of another , but it is worth noting that some workers had to modify the manufacturer 's instructions in order to improve the performance of this test . |
| 24 | In order to improve the broadcasting system and make it better able to resist political pressure — a prime duty of the libertarian/social responsibility media — they favour a wider range of representation on various broadcasting boards . |
| 25 | 1991 has seen many changes both external and internal ; some placed upon us by legislative bodies and the fluctuating state of the economy , others initiated from within in order to improve the working environment for all employees . |
| 26 | Commitment and firm action are necessary in order to improve the standard of financial accountability in the public sector . |
| 27 | A number of factors can be examined in order to improve the chances of sales success in both sales negotiations and pure selling . |
| 28 | The reformers , until 1964 mainly outside the House , argued that since the public wished to vote governments in or out of power and since every serious vote had become an issue of confidence , it was no longer possible to restore freer voting in order to improve the independence and power of the House . |
| 29 | It also indicates ways in which the landscape can be modified in order to improve the flow of energies and thus the well-being of the inhabitants . |
| 30 | These factors have to be considered in order to improve the reliability of serodiagnosis because of the potential advantages of these methods in identifying active H pylori infection . |