Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] increase the " in BNC.

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1 There are areas of activity where we will be producing improved services , and so we I think in this very difficult time we have managed to maintain our erm adherence to the principle that wherever it is possible we will improve and increase the services to the people of Oxfordshire .
2 Yet in the afternoon the council put its weight behind a scheme that would selectively subsidise and increase the earning capacity of a small group who are by no means the worst paid members of society , and this largely at the expense of the previously agreed underfunded NHS and the taxpayer .
3 Governments of varying political persuasions have attempted to either decrease or increase the role of the private sector .
4 Physical activity will maintain or increase the amount of muscle in the body and it is muscle that controls metabolic rate .
5 Productivity is also affected by the extent to which the employers can maintain or increase the intensity of labour — the proportion of the working day during which the worker is literally working and the speed of that work .
6 This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers .
7 All too often , when I visit successful schemes throughout the country , I find that they are about to announce that they can not carry on , or that they can not diversify or increase the take-up because the Government have not provided any money .
8 ( 6 ) You may not do or permit to be done in the premises anything which may invalidate or increase the premium payable for any policy of insurance maintained by our clients and you will comply with all requirements and recommendations of our clients ' insurers .
9 Figs , on the other hand , could be guaranteed to ‘ stere a man to veneryous actes , for they doth urge and increase the sede of generacyon ’ .
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