Example sentences of "[verb] the proportion of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some companies are making strenuous efforts to increase the proportion of women at all levels of employment . |
| 2 | Such a modest objective perhaps seemed prudent given the way the issue of how to increase the proportion of women at the very top already seems to have run into so many brick walls . |
| 3 | The EC responded to some of these concerns by offering to increase the proportion of grants to loans ( in order to ease the ACP countries ' debt commitments ) , to allocate funds to short-term structural adjustment rather than to long-term aid projects ( to help ACP countries overcome acute balance-of-payments and other problems ) , and to relax the regulations on the rules of origin for manufactured products ( with the aim of encouraging industrialization in ACP countries ) . |
| 4 | Aim to increase the proportion of carbohydrates in your diet rather than the sheer volume . |
| 5 | ( Her method of analysis does not , it will be noted , allow her to identify the proportion of sinistrals with bilateral speech . ) |
| 6 | In a debate at the Arts Centre on preschool education Mr Fallon claimed the proportion of children in nursery schools was 48pc . |
| 7 | This increases the proportion of hydrocarbons with stronger and more compact molecular structures in the petrol and so raises the octane value . |
| 8 | Grachev 's remarks also included proposals to increase the professionalism of the army by reducing the length of service and increasing the proportion of volunteers to conscripts . |
| 9 | Many of the initial assessments by doctors in this study were carried out by trainee psychiatrists who spent only six months with the team as part of their training ; had the proportion of assessments by consultant psychogeriatricians and clinical assistants in the sample been more representative , the agreements between team and research diagnoses might have been closer still . |
| 10 | Further investigations were carried out to determine whether or not the proportion of straightforward deliveries varied with the location of the items requested , to examine the proportion of deliveries from each location which were placed on reserve for readers , and to record the relative numbers of non-straightforward deliveries from each location which were attributable either to ‘ initial failure ’ or to the need to transfer items from another reader . |
| 11 | An alternative would be to subtract the proportion of optimists from the proportion of pessimists . |
| 12 | A very effective use is to show the proportion of costs in the manufacture of a product . |