Example sentences of "increase or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are covered by flaps projecting from the lower edge of the thorax that can be opened or closed so as to increase or dampen the sound like shutters on an organ . |
| 2 | ‘ This is a very serious question about the methods of funding the expansion of higher education and to say that we are seriously interested in the proposal that fees should be charged at full cost is not going to increase or widen access . |
| 3 | By including the words , avoiding areas of significant landscape value , you are by implication , directing it at areas which can be improved by for example a structure plan to increase or improve the landscape value of that area . |
| 4 | But it 's difficult , who should you look after — your solicitors who are trying to increase or break into criminal work or should you look after the client 's interests by giving him only solicitors who are already tried and tested . |
| 5 | Whilst we reserve the right to increase or decrease brochure prices at any time , the price of your holiday as shown on your Holiday Details Form and will not be increased unless you amend your booking after it is issued . |
| 6 | When investigating a transformation to promote symmetry in a single batch , we first examine the midpoint summaries — the median , the midquartile , and the midextreme — to see if they tend to increase or decrease . |
| 7 | Throttle control is n't enough on its own to do this and riders play a treacherous and delicate juggling act , weighting the footrests , shifting body weight and manipulating the throttle to increase or decrease rear tyre grip as required . |
| 8 | In addition , it typically becomes very difficult indeed to keep people continually awake without keeping them moving , and this naturally confounds the effects of physical fatigue with those of sleep deprivation per se ( although purposely increasing exercise levels during a vigil does not seem to increase or decrease the impairments attributable to sleep loss ) . |
| 9 | 3 ) Using the up and down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the highlighted value . |
| 10 | For steady mean conditions the first term of eqn ( 19.20 ) is zero , but it indicates the physical significance of the equation ; in view of the summation convention and so each term in the equation represents some process tending to increase or decrease the kinetic energy of the turbulence . |
| 11 | It was the NSF 's statistics that led President Carter 's administration to feed more funds to basic science , though it is doubtful whether the numbers help in decision making at a more detailed level — whether to increase or cut a laboratory 's budget , for example . |
| 12 | We reserve the right to increase or reduce these prices or amend these offers at any time after publication and in future editions of this brochure . |
| 13 | I agree with my honourable friend er one of the er satisfactory features of the C B I er survey last week , one of the many , was that eighty four percent of firms er in the U K intend to increase or maintain their spending on training and of course she 's absolutely right , they will be the firms that will benefit most from that investment in training as we continue through recovery into growth in the longer term . |
| 14 | The aim of the programme was to help patients increase or restore their physical strength with the help of enhanced knowledge and coping skills . |
| 15 | The law states that if a physical system is thermally isolated ( that is , if no heat enters or leaves the system ) , the thermodynamic quantity known as entropy must increase or stay constant . |
| 16 | As the flow , or ( annual ) amount of the commodity increases , the supply price may either increase or diminish ; or it may even alternately increase and diminish . |
| 17 | It was feared that an emphasis on individual tribal culture might increase or encourage separatism : was it possible to find common ground out of which would emerge a truly indigenous Tanzanian culture ? |
| 18 | A number of the writers we discuss below have as their primary concern the extent to which technological change will either increase or reduce class consciousness and class conflict . |
| 19 | It is not clear whether European Economic Integration and the rules governing the completion of the Single European Market ( SEM ) will increase or reduce regional disparities . |
| 20 | Basically government can increase or reduce unemployment by increasing labour demands through just handing out more jobs in the sector . |
| 21 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 22 | Mrs Mitchell wants to know if she can increase or decrease the width of the pattern , in order to get complete repeats of the pattern on a sweater that is a different size to the one she used her 23-stitch repeat for . |
| 23 | Once within the council sector , tenants may find their circumstances changing : families may increase or decrease and places of work or school attendance may change , so that many tenants apply to transfer accommodation . |
| 24 | If their model is correct , the variance of futures returns may increase or decrease as the delivery date approaches . |
| 25 | Natural constituents such as ammonia , soil particles , seaspray , and volcanic emissions of sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide can increase or decrease the pH of precipitation . |
| 26 | If , without any transfer of angular momentum to the Earth-Moon system , the Moon were shifted into a circular orbit half the radius of its present orbit ( which is nearly circular ) , discuss whether its sidereal orbital period would initially increase or decrease . |
| 27 | Substitution of specified material may increase or decrease costs to the employer and the engineer should ensure that the employer obtains a refund if a cheaper alternative is used . |
| 28 | Considering the particular forms of ‘ socialisation ’ which have emerged with the development of the impersonal capital , to what extent do these increase or limit the opportunities for socialist transformation of the economy ? |