Example sentences of "[to-vb] and improve [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | How we collect this information will certainly affect how well we can draw inferences from it in order to modify and improve the unit . |
| 3 | Or to try and improve the lives of the people who would one day be his subjects ? |
| 4 | The station was first created in 1960 when community leaders took specific steps to try and improve the quality of life in the community . |
| 5 | I also admire Bethany Megan Robinson for efforts to try and improve the Skerne Park Estate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Society will continue to promote measures to inform and improve the law including |
| 8 | It seems necessary to try to simplify and improve the machinery in the interests of the Board 's work , and also in order that the University and voluntary associations may be able to show to LEAs that their share in adult education will be effectively conducted . |
| 9 | Centrepiece of the celebrations will be the signing of the ‘ declaration of intent ’ in Central Gardens when Middlesbrough council and its partners in the project promise to preserve and improve the environment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | to darken and improve the colour of hair , and to increase its growth , to whiten teeth , and strengthen gums , an astringent and deodorant , for bath and washing water |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since nineteen seventy nine we have done much to extend and improve the tax incentives available in order to encourage individual and corporate donors to give to charity . |
| 14 | The ultimate responsibility of the state , in de Gaulle 's view , was to protect and improve the position of France in the world . |
| 15 | The 1970s saw the beginning of serious and substantial attempts to understand and improve the financial reporting practices of public sector organizations . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | to investigate and improve the drainage at the east ( Barnton Ave. ) end ; |
| 18 | Our aim is to maintain our leading position , to develop and improve the facilities and amenities offered to port users and to provide a top quality , efficient , value for money operation . ’ |
| 19 | When looking at how to develop and improve the management of its electronic information resources , a local authority needs to ensure that the same questions are asked about the electronic environment as are asked about the traditional ubiquitous paper record . |
| 20 | That we advocate the immediate implementation of the Scottish Old People 's Chapter , to strive to maintain and improve the standard of living of pensioners by ensuring that the pension will rise according to the cost of living or er or livings or earnings , which er whichever is the most advantageous . |
| 21 | That we advocate the immediate implementation of the Scottish Old People 's Chapter to strive to maintain and improve the standard of living of pensioners by ensuring that the pension will rise according to the cost of living or earnings , whichever is er is the most ad advantageous . |
| 22 | The report , leaked to Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) , contradicts the claim made in the government White Paper on the environment released last year that a great deal had been done " to maintain and improve the quality of our rivers " . |
| 23 | Demanding higher levels of technical efficiency from domestic suppliers is directly related to the need to standardize and improve the quality of inputs that are used in later stages of manufacturing , where closer physical location to the main plant is crucial . |
| 24 | ‘ In order to revitalise our economy , it is time for a dramatically new approach that recognises the strength and potential of America 's scientific and technological resources to change and improve the quality of our lives , ’ he said . |
| 25 | For the first time , monies are earmarked for training in the teaching of four-year-old children in primary classes , the specific purpose being to update and improve the knowledge and understanding of teachers and non-specialist advisers with responsibility for young children . |
| 26 | Simple indicators of colorectal carcinoma would help to rationalise and improve the efficiency of the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |