Example sentences of "[noun pl] increases [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This versatility combined with the brighter images increases the range of specimen types that may be examined . |
| 2 | But putting up more candidates increases the danger that each of them will contend as an individual rather than as a member of a team : it makes the campaign harder to co-ordinate . |
| 3 | Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons . |
| 4 | Putting on successively larger weights increases the extension and the " modulus ' is measured from the graphical plot of load against extension , corrections being made for the cross-sectional area and for the original length . |
| 5 | For younger women , smoking and the use of oral contraceptives increases the risk of a heart attack , stroke or other cardiovascular disease by tenfold . |
| 6 | Smoking combined with the use of oral contraceptives increases the risk of a heart attack , stroke or other cardiovascular disease by tenfold . |
| 7 | As it is , I think every hour that passes increases the risk of your not seeing your daughter again whether you pay the ransom or not , and that by paying you may well be signing her death warrant . |
| 8 | It has been shown experimentally that binding of lactoferrin by anti-lactoferrin antibodies increases the amount and duration of hydroxyl radical formation by granulocytes . |
| 9 | The second is that the multiplicity of authorities increases the number of administrators and clerical workers , so imposing a heavy cost on an economy that can ill afford to use its resources in this way . |
| 10 | This change is functional for the stability of monopoly capitalism because the pseudo-democracy of direct voting by a mass electorate for leaders or policies increases the legitimacy of the political system , allows the mass of citizens to be co-opted into compliance , and poses no real risk of losing control over key state decisions to the masses . |
| 11 | Forrest and Cushley have reported that incorporation of cholesteryl esters increases the permeability of model membranes to ions 10 fold . |
| 12 | Death rates increase approximately in proportion to the duration of smoking : doubling the duration of smoking from 10 to 20 years increases the incidence of lung cancer 16 times if daily cigarette consumption remains constant [ 2 ] . |
| 13 | As the number of phases increases the reduction factor tends towards unity and the system inertia has less effect on the low-speed pull-out torque . |
| 14 | Hippo says support for these commands on PCs increases the ease of multi-platform integration and systems admin . |
| 15 | Overall it lowers life expectancy and among other things increases the risk of high blood pressure , diabetes , heart disease , gallstones and gout . |
| 16 | Smoking pipes or cigars increases the risk of oral cancers almost as much as cigarettes , particularly if intake is heavy . |
| 17 | Like all British direct taxation , as the absolute level of profits increases the tax loses its progressiveness and becomes a flat rate [ Caves and Krause , 1980 ] . |
| 18 | A diet high in saturated ( animal ) fats and low in polyunsaturates increases the risk of heart disease . |
| 19 | The long-term inhalation of such gases is harmful to health and , although no acceptable exposure level has been submitted , studies have shown that breathing in hydrocarbons increases the risk of lung cancer . |
| 20 | It can do this because the capacity of an input neuron to activate any of the output neurons increases every time the ‘ output pattern generator ’ activates the output neuron simultaneously with external activation of the input neuron . |
| 21 | Firstly , ablation of these neurones increases the susceptibility of the rat gastric mucosa to injurious factors such as hydrochloric acid , acetylsalicylic acid , and ethanol . |
| 22 | The epidemiological importance of arrested larval development from whatever cause is that , first , it ensures the survival of the nematode during periods of adversity ; secondly , the subsequent maturation of arrested larvae increases the contamination of the environment and can sometimes result in clinical disease . |
| 23 | Any combination of these factors increases the risk dramatically . |
| 24 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 25 | For one thing , increasing the number of cells increases the amount of space that will be taken up by axons and their terminals , and this will alter the appearance of the tissue , so that regions of the brain will not always look the same in different species . |
| 26 | The use of a spacing device for the higher salbutamol doses increases the amount delivered to the airways and might also underestimate dose equivalence since airway and systemic effects of β 2 agonists are mainly due to inhaled drug . |
| 27 | However , reducing the raster size from 100 to 25 mapunits increases the disc space required to store the raster files by a factor of 16 as well as increasing processing times . |
| 28 | The in situ DNA methylation reaction is allowed to proceed without shaking of the tray , for a length of time sufficient to statistically obtain one methylation event per DNA strand , which is inversely proportional to the size of the DNA probe ( the restricted translational and rotational freedom of the DNA molecules embedded in the gel pores increases the stringency of the latter consideration ) . |
| 29 | A purchase or redemption by a company of its own shares increases the percentage which a remaining block of shares represents and can result in a shareholder or group of shareholders obtaining control of that company . |