Example sentences of "and improving the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Follow our guide to updating and improving the lighting in your home . |
| 2 | The Sun newspaper is to set up a service called ‘ Hard Views ’ aimed at ‘ cleaning up and improving the standards of journalism in television ’ . |
| 3 | Colourist Chris Walton used Medium Blonde and Terra Rosa from Wella 's Colour Touch range to change the tone and deepen the overall colour of Sally 's hair at the same time as encouraging its shine and improving the general condition . |
| 4 | People would judge it ‘ by how it considers questions of revitalising the economy , curbing shortages and improving the life of the workers , ’ he said . |
| 5 | … because the economic situation is now more serious than at any time over the last 25 years , the Government decided that resources must be released for investment and improving the balance of payments … |
| 6 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |
| 7 | Chairman Kevin Threlfall wants to continue expanding and improving the quality of the 583-strong store portfolio . |
| 8 | But in the last three years , they have invested more than £500,000 in improving the 30-acre Sunningdale site , adding huge glasshouses and improving the show gardens . |
| 9 | developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts . |
| 10 | Or , you could privatise it and charge for skate sessions , but making it successful this way is a hard slog , what with the initial funding for equipment , paying to keep the ramps skateable , and improving the park , all out of skate session fees . |
| 11 | Medium and long leys are put down with the object of increasing grassland production , extending the growing season and improving the nutritional quality of the herbage . |
| 12 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 13 | The private sector , for example , was central to the approach , and improving the city 's image was seen as vital . |
| 14 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 15 | The makers say that the solid machined brass construction maximises the transmission of string vibration through the bridge and into the instrument 's body , giving greater sustain and warmth and improving the general tone and clarity of any bass . |
| 16 | Other reasons given were the sale of subsidiaries , tightening controls on costs and improving the structures and systems of group companies . |
| 17 | During its first term ( 1979–83 ) the government 's main public sector policies involved achieving reductions in the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) and improving the profitability of nationalised industries . |
| 18 | British Gas Resource is dedicated to saving costs and improving the efficiency of industry and commerce . |
| 19 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Other Application Linking concerns include developing real-time object linking and embedding techniques and improving the level of data exchange . |
| 21 | Other ALT concerns include developing real-time object linking and embedding techniques and improving the level of data exchange . |
| 22 | It was already a specifically trade union response to the single most important question trade unions face : the question of maintaining and improving the wages paid to their members by employers . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’ |
| 24 | They were exactly characteristic of the era of ‘ modernization ’ ( I am grateful to Tim Blackman , 1987 , for this usage ) in which the leadership of the local Labour and Trade Union movement actively collaborated with regional capital , regional representatives of trans-national capital and the central state in promoting a series of strategies designed to facilitate the operations of trans-national capital , while simultaneously providing jobs and improving the environment . |
| 25 | Joseph Gandy , who claims in 1805 that his designs originate ‘ in the humane desire of increasing the comforts and improving the condition of the Labouring Poor ’ , makes little provision for them . |
| 26 | From the Mediterranean coastlands , it obtained its name from the Latin ros and maris , dew of the sea , and has had associations with the mind and improving the memory since classical times ; witness the famous quotation in Hamlet , of poor Ophelia : " There 's rosemary , that 's for remembrance " . |
| 27 | This may start a vicious circle and reducing levels of insulin are by losing weight , taking more exercise , and improving the quality of your diet . |
| 28 | The aim of much of this legislation was to increase the sheer quantity of housing available to the rural population , thereby relieving overcrowding and improving the state of repair of the housing stock . |
| 29 | The two policy approaches — attracting staff to deprived areas and improving the standard of deprived areas — are not mutually exclusive . |
| 30 | A lot of our time is spent generally keeping the reserve in good order — carrying out repairs such as painting and fencing , controlling bracken , mending boats and tractors and improving the standards of accommodation . |