Example sentences of "[prep] increase the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is my intention to foster the formation of a body of people interested in aerobatics in Scotland , both pilots and non-pilots , with the purpose of increasing the awareness of aerobatics here and of promoting instruction and participation in the sport . |
| 2 | ( f ) To support family planning as a health measure in maternal and child health programmes as a way of reducing births that occur too early or too late in the mother 's life , of increasing the interval between births and of diminishing higher birth orders , and by giving special consideration to the needs of those in the postpartum and/or breast-feeding period ; |
| 3 | The technical improvements of this period centred around the problem of increasing the fire-power of armies ; and towards this end a good deal of progress was made . |
| 4 | The idea of increasing the diameter in waterwheels was that the number of ‘ buckets ’ could be increased and so the bigger the wheel the more power was generated . |
| 5 | Let us take now the bold step of increasing the number of dimensions by one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Will he encourage the chief constable in the task that he has set himself of increasing the number of officers available for normal duties within the community ? |
| 8 | Her job is to encourage more women to consider a career in engineering by making links with potential employers , engineers and , most importantly , looking at ways of increasing the number of women students applying for places on engineering courses . |
| 9 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |
| 10 | Do the figures on the impact of increasing the number of adults in classrooms challenge the conventional assumption that the more adults there are , the better ? |
| 11 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |
| 12 | An alternative means of increasing the number of units in the input utterance , and thereby decreasing the number of word paths found , would be to include stress in the lexicon and input utterance . |
| 13 | There are four basic ways of increasing the number of pupils at the school , extend the catchment area , attract the children of new families that move into the neighbourhood , shore up the leakage of children to other schools and , lastly , pick up those that are dissatisfied with their present school . |
| 14 | Current total spending on deprivation payments could be maintained despite increasing the eligibility for payments if the average per capita fee was lowered . |
| 15 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a statement on progress in increasing the number of women registered with the public appointments unit . |
| 16 | We have been successful in going in the opposite direction — in increasing the number of jobs and in making British industry more competitive in the past 10 years . |
| 17 | That the policy is not restricted to increasing the knowledge of parents of pupils is seen by the access provisions under the various Regulations . |
| 18 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 19 | The UDR 's low reputation among nationalists was reflected in the 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement , which looked forward to increasing the number of Catholics in the RUC but refrained from mentioning the UDR . |
| 20 | These recommendations , if they can be fully implemented , should go some way to increasing the globalisation of securities markets by smoothing out problems in world clearance and settlement systems . |
| 21 | The emphasis amongst researchers on gender , therefore , has not been on increasing the participation of girls in education . |
| 22 | 8 The class may be divided into any number of levels without increasing the number of teachers . |
| 23 | Highway engineers ' schemes for increasing the size of junctions often result in the stone being broken up for hardcore or being tossed unceremoniously aside . |
| 24 | These include specific targets for increasing the number of women , people from ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities , in the higher grades . |
| 25 | Mr Wawryk will be responsible for building on the channel 's current base of more than 110,000 hotel rooms and for increasing the number of households able to receive MTV Europe . |
| 26 | The employment objective may be attained , therefore , by increasing the quantity of goods and services produced . |
| 27 | Society could gain the triangle EFE ' ; , measuring the excess of social benefits over social costs , by increasing the quantity of improvements from Q to Q ' ; . |
| 28 | Access to credit enabled capitalists to maintain the rate of accumulation by increasing the proportion of funds borrowed ( largely workers ' savings ) . |
| 29 | These rules can also be deduced by imagining that we try to send extra goods ‘ round the cycle ’ by increasing the flow of goods in edges corresponding to forward variables and reducing it in edges corresponding to reverse variables . |
| 30 | This core can then be supplemented by relying on the open labour market to provide temporary or seasonal workers but also by increasing the share of orders given to subcontractors . |