Example sentences of "be to improve the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , they are available and if individuals are to improve their lives , and companies and organisations are to improve the attendance and commitment of their staff , they must learn and apply the skills of emotional management .
2 But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated .
3 The overall aim is to improve the education and training environment so that a teacher/student ratio of 1:12 will be realised , and that ‘ the facilities available for education and training should be no less than the best provided in higher education establishment ’ .
4 The aim of the community art project is to improve the environment and to make an attractive feature of bare walls which would otherwise be prone to vandalism and graffiti .
5 In summing up what they learned from their primary and middle school case studies , Briault and West ( 1990:99 ) came back to the purposes of good management : The objective of management , in whatever sphere , is to improve the product and to meet the customer 's requirements .
6 Second , the purpose is to improve the health and functioning of school organizations .
7 We believe that the best chance of keeping out imports is to improve the efficiency and productivity of the industry .
8 The ultimate objective of introducing new technology is to improve the efficiency and competitive position of the firm .
9 The major project referred to in last years report was to improve the organisation and performance of the Governments Health Service transport .
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