Example sentences of "improving [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He became especially good as a one-day containing bowler , playing a big part in his county 's successes , and contributing many useful , if very idiosyncratic , lower middle order runs ; while his Test bowling average was declining , his batting figure was improving all the time , and reached a handy 21 . |
2 | Only Haynes and Logie put up much resistance and 154 all out , with conditions improving all the time , presented England with few problems ; had the situation been reversed , one knew that West Indies would have won by eight or nine wickets , but English fans were happy enough to have six still in hand . |
3 | ‘ It still amazes me how much she has come on and is improving all the time . |
4 | But like the use of every fossil fuel there is some price to be paid at the tail pipe in pollution ( although diesel is improving all the time ) . |
5 | But diesel engines are improving all the time , and developments like turbocharging and direct injection mean that the power gap between the two systems is shrinking . |
6 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
7 | Specialized software and hardware for plotting is improving all the time ; there are several acceptable purpose-built packages now available , especially for drawing bar charts and circular pie charts . |
8 | In 1991 the Mondays appear confident , their sound — improving all the time . |
9 | With Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn improving all the time , we could just have a bright future ahead of us . |
10 | The medical treatments for some of the illnesses you may experience are improving all the time . |
11 | The current LTA scheme for juniors is improving all the time . |
12 | The quality of housing is also improving all the time . |
13 | I am delighted to repeat that the number of women in the top grades of the civil service is improving all the time and they , of course , will be the permanent secretaries of the future . |
14 | Current video printers can produce a paper image approaching the quality of a photographic print and are improving all the time . |
15 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
16 | Like Williams , Hill was defiant about his talent and ambitions , saying : ‘ I am not too disheartened because I am improving all the time as a Grand Prix racer and you have to remember it is my first season . |
17 | erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee . |