Example sentences of "[subord] to increase [art] " in BNC.

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1 He was also right to widen the tax base rather than to increase the ( direct ) rates .
2 Even then , the Court had a discretion whether to increase the sentence or not .
3 The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net .
4 In these circumstances this cost would therefore be relevant in the decision whether to increase the range of products .
5 The Committee considered whether to increase the grant to Farmers World Network , but decided to allocate the full balance of this year 's budget to this post .
6 In the case of joint tenancy , on the other hand , the rights of each ( except the last survivor ) are extinguished by his death so as to increase the interest of the survivor or survivors .
7 In the factories the major focus of Communist activity was the campaign to increase production , waged in such a way as to increase the power of shop steward organizations , often in alliance with Government officials , at the expense of traditional managerial prerogative .
8 Alternatively , they may be given as a mark of generosity so as to increase the cohesive forces in society , known as levelling mechanisms .
9 Below the front windows was a box extension of about two feet in length , so placed as to increase the space of the interior .
10 The aims of the Board have been to improve economic and social conditions as well as to increase the contribution of the region to the national economy .
11 Subjects may teach the experimenters how to behave … so as to increase the likelihood that the next subject 's response will be more in the direction of the experimenter 's expectancy . ’
12 The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence .
13 It so happened that in 1885 a Royal Commission had been set up " to investigate and report upon , the condition of the blind in the United Kingdom , the various systems of education of the blind … the employments open to and suitable for the blind and the means by which education may be extended so as to increase the number of blind persons qualified for such employments . "
14 Clause 2 amends the Prison Act 1952 so as to increase the penalty for sending anything into prison with the intent to facilitate an escape .
15 The European Council noted the need to review the procedures and mechanisms for preparing , adopting and implementing decisions where foreign policy is concerned , so as to increase the coherence , speed and effectiveness of the Community 's international action …
16 Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors ' overall responsibilities .
17 Every physical or chemical process in nature takes place in such a way as to increase the sum of the entropies of all the bodies taking part in the process .
18 If any such liabilities are debts incurred for the purposes of Target 's trade in respect of which a deduction has been allowed in computing the profits of the trade within s94 TA 1988 , and the vendor releases or procures the release of Target from its obligation to repay so as to increase the price Newco pays for Target , Target could be treated for tax purposes as receiving a substantial amount of taxable income .
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