Example sentences of "[verb] to improving the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Services are committed to improving the environment and protecting health and property . |
| 2 | We are committed to improving the already extremely high level of railway safety . |
| 3 | I have had three meetings with them and our manufacturers are committed to improving the security of their cars and , in particular , introducing immobilising devices , deadlocks and visible identification numbers . |
| 4 | At one level , EC regional policy is committed to improving the competitive potential of the less favoured regions ( LFRs ) . |
| 5 | The Department 's currently committed to improving the A420 Swindon to Oxford road . |
| 6 | The two positive requirements are that the agreement must first contribute to improving the production or distribution of goods or to promoting technical or economic progress and second allow consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit . |
| 7 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 8 | The AWB was retained and the NUAW ( it became the NUAAW in 1968 ) remained firmly wedded to improving the conditions of its membership through such statutory channels . |
| 9 | Its overall conclusion was that such a policy increased the mutual respect and understanding of social workers and parents and contributed to improving the thinking , discussion and decision making . |
| 10 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 11 | Priority would be given to improving the country 's infrastructure and boosting production . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the aims of the Children Act 1989 with regard to improving the welfare of children . |
| 13 | Its remit , however , is limited to improving the economic viability of meat production on hill and upland farms . |
| 14 | It is for this reason that a major part of ISS is devoted to improving the staff-development of teachers , and in the period of implementation of ISS efforts have been directed to improving the Authority 's INSET and school self-evaluation procedures . |
| 15 | In few cases in the later eighteenth century did it extend to improving the housing of the urban poor , crammed in their squalid suburbs in Chichester and Lewes or in the back yards , behind the better houses , in Battle . |
| 16 | There is with Article 85(3) , provision for the granting of exemptions by the Commission in the case of beneficial agreements , " … which contribute to improving the production or distribution of goods or to promoting technical or economic progress , while allowing consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit … " , provided that such agreements do not impose any indispensable restrictions or provide the possibility of eliminating competition . |
| 17 | Given the reality of the current difficulties with the use of office systems as tools to manage large volumes of records ( a task for which , on the whole , they were not originally designed ) , how can records managers contribute to improving the situation primarily for the creating organisations , and indirectly also for other potential users of the records ? |
| 18 | The Council was not content with the system , and was working to improving the partnership — in a dialogue with partners that the Council needed to continue as its ‘ most urgent agendum ’ . |