Example sentences of "[adv] to increase [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour-wise it looks a bit anaemic ; I presume its cellulose finish will darken , if you can wait that long , although I would have preferred Fender to have tinted the lacquer a little to increase the ‘ butterscotch ’ element in the colouring . |
| 2 | As schools become more practised and expert at constructing and implementing them , they should guarantee that the resources available to the school are used effectively to increase the range of opportunities and the quality of education for the pupil population . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it was the British navy which pioneered the two inventions which did most to increase the efficiency of eighteenth-century men-of-war . |
| 4 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 5 | As you will see from my strategies — all of which , let me repeat , are derived not from my own beliefs but from what teachers say they actually do — what works for one person may seem quite bizarre to another , and serve only to increase the distress of a third . |
| 6 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 7 | Luke Thackray 's warning served only to increase the sarcasm in his mother 's face . |
| 8 | All the more reason perhaps to increase the franchising activity north of Watford . |
| 9 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 10 | In the last 200 years the irrigation system has been extended to increase the number of crops grown annually and especially to increase the cultivation of cotton which is a major export crop . |
| 11 | Moreover , since roubles are inconvertible , the National Bank has been obliged to issue dinars to Yugoslav exporters in exchange for blocked roubles , and thus to increase the domestic money supply . |
| 12 | In the medium term , the pace of political reform in neighbouring Poland and in Hungary is bound further to increase the dissatisfaction of East Germans . |
| 13 | Bruner ( 1983 ) refers to this as a ‘ communicative ratchet ’ which enables adults gradually to increase the demands which are placed upon linguistic communication , while at the same time minimising the consequences of misunderstandings . |
| 14 | We complete if five degrees nose-down , still hammering along at 250 knots , but I push harder to increase the speed to 3400 , brace my stomach , and ease back until the g-meter reads a steady four . |
| 15 | Accordingly , Drudy and Drudy ( 1979 ) have advocated the provision of professional and office jobs , and Gilg ( 1976 ) has advocated more jobs in office employment and tourism , as well as jobs in manufacturing , as an alternative to agricultural employment , so that not only the aspirations of the whole ability range of young people may be met ( Drudy , 1975 ) but also to increase the level of female activity rates found in many rural areas ( Moseley and Darby , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 17 | They should be detected early and recorded both to increase the awareness of the local population and to motivate prompt reaction from the international community . |
| 18 | Law Society guidance to these amendment rules emphasises that the new requirements are not intended materially to increase the reporting accountant 's workload . |
| 19 | Thanks to the German and Italian aid , Franco was able substantially to increase the number of troops being transported daily from Morocco to Spain , while the Republic remained apparently unable to stop him . |
| 20 | Ministers should take the opportunity offered by falling school rolls to act seriously now to increase the quality and quantity of science education in schools . |
| 21 | What was it doing proportionately to increase the general availability of jobs ? |
| 22 | If there was a resolution on the agenda today to increase the subscription , and I hasten to add there is n't , but if there was then that increase by convention would take effect on the first of January nineteen ninety four but the full value of the increase would not reach our income and expenditure account until the year nineteen ninety five to ninety six and this means that we are not well placed to respond to short-term financial problems . |
| 23 | Today developers are trying hard to increase the size of North Dalton , wanting to build houses on every spare piece of land . |
| 24 | LCCIEB has worked hard to increase the availability and take up of modern languages , both within the UK and overseas , and it views the developments in NVQs as a natural extension of this work . |
| 25 | I hugged the bundle more tightly to increase the warmth . |
| 26 | This was rebuilt with a large single-indicator box at each end , and fitted with bench seats upstairs to increase the capacity to 94 . |
| 27 | To do so , it is necessary briefly to increase the rate of insertion of bricks at a particular point in the house — the roof — without changing the rate of removal ; bricks thus accumulate as the chimney is constructed . |
| 28 | The important changes in design were firstly to increase the number of judgments in the recognition phase in order to obtain better recognition data than was available for the previous studies , secondly , to use a much more varied selection of driving situations , and thirdly to show each location only once during the judgment phase of the experiment . |
| 29 | Rostow 's Stages of Economic Growth identified a key role for external concessionary finance , i.e. to increase the rate of investment without reducing the level of domestic consumption . |
| 30 | We will then continue steadily to increase the share of Britain 's national wealth invested in education . |