Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to improve the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Schools have been accused of neglecting economic and industrial understanding and its relationship with social standards ; partnerships have the opportunity to improve the quality of this aspect of the curriculum .
2 A facility such as VIEWINDEX , while not an essential feature of a word processing package , nevertheless gives school users the opportunity to improve the quality of their reports .
3 For the second step , an ‘ anti orange-peel skin' liposome is designed to transport specific plant-extracted flavonoids and butcher 's broom extract into the skin to improve the micro-circulation ( and thus expel toxins more efficiently ) and fortify the capillary walls .
4 The decision is controversial in its reasoning , but it may be explained as an attempt by the judiciary to improve the workability of an ageing legal structure .
5 It is hoped to be able to use the results of the research to improve the OEDIPUS system .
6 The result to improve the players perks and packages , but keep within the Rugby Union amateur code .
7 Later other improvements came along such as putting a cylinder of safety glass around the flame to improve the illumination , and covering the gauze by a metal bonnet to protect it from accidental damage .
8 Measures adopted by the IMO to improve the safety of passenger ferries became international law in October 1989 and April 1990 .
9 The determination to improve the harbour to admit larger ships dated from the middle of the 16th century .
10 At the heart of the Dearing Report 's proposals for a new system for setting accounting standards is an attempt to create a new alliance between accountancy and the law to improve the quality of financial reporting .
11 The battle to improve the movies had also been a battle in which the showmen had fought to maintain control of what they had invented .
12 — A feature on the campaign to improve the treatment of dyslexia in County Durham will appear in The Northern on Monday .
13 So how come so few of the 141 organisations which have joined Opportunity 2000 , the campaign to improve the balance of men and women in the work-force , are accountants ?
14 There are a number of experiments at the moment to improve the noise environment on our motorways and they include the most modern technology for noise barriers .
15 These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent .
16 The aim to improve the quality of space in front of John Knox House and St Giles is also fraught with difficulties .
17 Within GIS the unique appeal of the GUI has been the desire to improve the ease of use for systems involving complex graphical display and spatial manipulation .
18 Reformers who advocated social welfare regulation were motivated by ideals , but also by the desire to improve the productivity of the working class and to attract its support for particular political causes .
19 Most parents of children at poorer schools already know about those schools , though they do not have the information to confront the governors , teachers and heads to urge them of the need to improve the school .
20 However fascinating the ‘ social gospel ’ has proved to historians , it was not the most important aspect of the ministry to Nonconformity : this was the need to improve the quality of ministers ' education in order to equip them for the position they had achieved in English life .
21 ‘ The success of the over-haul has given us the incentive to improve the plant systems and procedures even further , ’ added Ian .
22 These tapered towards the top to improve the draught .
23 Mr Parker said he had asked St Albans District Council in the past to improve the lighting on the path from the car park .
24 The Child Poverty Action Group has urged the government to improve the take-up of benefits and the service provided to claimants .
25 After the war he founded the Disabled Society , lobbying the government to improve the quality of artificial limbs .
26 Many of these headings are cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric , but this requires more skill to achieve and is also more extravagant on fabric .
27 It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens .
28 It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens .
29 It then makes sense to make the effort to improve the lighting .
30 The more you increase the resolution to improve the output quality , the larger the file size becomes and the slower it is to work with .
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