Matters are not improved by his personal style.
Our moods are not improved by the weather at all.
Health workers are concerned about a possible increase if health and sanitation facilities are not improved.
If the rules are not improved, it said, they "could reduce the margin of safety for operating nuclear power reactors".
RIVERS are not improved by the presence of cars along their banks, of course, but roads are almost always made better by close association with flowing water.
Unlike meat stocks, vegetable versions are not improved by long cooking - they end up a bit "cabbagey", so cook them for no longer than 45 minutes.
This is likely to involve shorter sentences on a graduated scale to encourage earlier pleas.None of this will work, however, if Crown Court procedures are not improved.
The towers are not improved by the architect Frank Gehry's outlandish notion of slanting them so they look as if they are ready to tip over, which I assume is what attracts Mr. Ouroussoff.
"If a male prairie chicken's chances of mating are already small when he joins a lek of his own species," Dr. Gibson said, "it stands to reason they are not improved at a sharp-tailed grouse lek.
While they do free up the teacher to provide more individualised attention, they do not have the same effect as simply having smaller classes: results in maths and literacy are not improved by having teaching assistants.
Tara, who assists me with recipe testing (among many other things), tells me one of her dad's favourite sayings is, "There are very few things in life that are not improved by the addition of a fried egg".
