Example sentences of "[noun sg] of increasing the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Chairman of the CNAA and strongly committed to its activities , Sir Michael Clapham was a consistent advocate of increasing the responsibilities of the institutions it validated . |
| 2 | In the field of tubular inspection , NDT Systems and NDT Eagle are both incurring development costs as a result of increasing the quality and scope of their services . |
| 3 | ( The population size should be increased to the point at which the marginal gains to residents are made equal to the marginal costs to club residents as a result of increasing the number in the locality ; i.e. the property rights are vested with existing club members . ) |
| 4 | To submit to unemployment or slums or want , to let children go hungry or sick and old unattended , for fear of increasing the internal national debt , is to lose all sense of proportion . ’ |
| 5 | The DUP was formed with the intention of increasing the non-evangelical element in the movement , but it had little initial success in broadening the recruiting base . |
| 6 | Activation of this third type of neurone has the effect of increasing the amount of neurotransmitter released at the synapse between sensory and motor neurones , for each nerve impulse travelling down the axon of the sensory cell . |
| 7 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 8 | A newly-invented spring has been adopted , one peculiarity attached to it being the insertion of a thin hoop of steel within a leathern belt , which has the effect of increasing the power of tension in a very remarkable degree , and rendering the motion of the carriage perfectly easy . |
| 9 | They have the effect of increasing the territorial waters of Madeira ( Portugal ) . |
| 10 | Progesterone has the effect of increasing the body temperature by up to 0.5°C . |
| 11 | Environmental events which are pleasurable will , if they consistently occur immediately after a behavioural response , have the effect of increasing the strength of the response . |
| 12 | This results in a decrease in the rate of cation influx into the rod outer segment by two- to sixfold at low cGMP concentrations and has the effect of increasing the sensitivity of the channel to small changes in cGMP levels during phototransduction . |
| 13 | Thus , reversible binding of calmodulin to the channel complex in response to changes in the level of Ca 2+ has the effect of increasing the sensitivity of the channel to small changes in cGMP which may occur during the photoresponse . |
| 14 | Bismarck 's reform in that country had the effect of increasing the industrial output of Germany . |
| 15 | But the wavelength multiplied by the frequency is always equal to the velocity of light , so this decrease in wavelength has the result at the same time of increasing the frequency v. Inevitably we thereby increase the energy carried by a single photon and make its interaction with the electron correspondingly more rumbustious ( with the effect of increasing the degree of uncontrollable disturbance to its momentum ) . |
| 16 | Unfortunately however , such a policy would also have the effect of increasing the already excessive prison population by an enormous extent . |
| 17 | Indeed , some parts of pre-trial High Court procedure have the effect of increasing the possibilities for compromise at the same time as preparing the issue for hearing by a judge . |
| 18 | However the damper does have the effect of increasing the rise time of the response , because the available motor torque has to accelerate both the load and damper inertias towards the step position . |
| 19 | On the other hand , forcing such a language on men and women not born to it can have the perverse effect of increasing the number of languages . |
| 20 | This has the effect of increasing the relative weight given to nearer cash flows and hence of reducing duration . |
| 21 | On the other hand the short sales will have the effect of increasing the supply of the low return asset and , ceteris paribus , cutting the price and increasing the expected return . |
| 22 | Positive bias , so called because it has the effect of increasing the accessible success area of the catastrophe surface , results from a cultural environment orientated towards systems and standards , analysis and risk avoidance in R&D programmes . |
| 23 | Another use of the simulation model might be to assess the effect of increasing the urban area lying within a river basin . |
| 24 | This has had the effect of increasing the premiums paid by doctors for medical insurance . |
| 25 | The technology also has the effect of increasing the variety of production methods farmers can either er , rear livestock extensively , or intensively , where the technology for intensive production exists , and if you 're not familiar with the technology of intensive say , milk production erm , or , or it does n't exist , then clearly you wo n't be able to , to use those intensive tech techniques . |
| 26 | In 1986 there was a public-sector deficit ( PSBR ) , which therefore had the effect of increasing the money supply . |
| 27 | It plans to open a further nine in the current half year which will have the effect of increasing the supermarket sales area by 9.1pc . |
| 28 | Financing the bid by means of a rights issue or cash underwritten alternative has the advantage of increasing the equity base of the offeror and improving gearing . |
| 29 | With the chronic shortage , there has been a widening of selection criteria for the acceptance of donor organs and an extension of cardiac allograft ischaemic time in the hope of increasing the available pool of donor organs . |
| 30 | Hertfordshire in consequence of this feeling initiated an influential and controversial scheme , whereby as part of the work of increasing the research and learning competence of the student , as well as stimulating his general reading , courses and tutorial supervision were provided in the use of libraries and library materials . |