Example sentences of "[verb] to speed up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If laboratory scale experiments indicate , however , that the indigenous microfauna are unable to degrade the contaminants , enrichment cultures of microorganisms may be added to speed up the process . |
| 2 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
| 3 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) . |
| 5 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 6 | Designed to speed up the purchasing process , a ‘ logbook ’ would set out the condition of a home and any work done to it , as well as listing surveys . |
| 7 | Indeed , in a move designed to speed up the process Lloyd has made a ‘ little publicised ’ offer to the Lawn Tennis Associations ITI set up , which would see him build centres — ITI centres — and run them as such , in addition to running them as private clubs . |
| 8 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 9 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 10 | The reaction was to try to speed up the reallocation of those remaining at Barham House ( a process which was unintentionally assisted by the activation of the internment laws ) , to provide the best possible reason for closing the place down . |
| 11 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 12 | The government wants to speed up the vetting of new materials in dentistry . |
| 13 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 14 | The EPA also plans to speed up the selection of clean-up strategies and to standardise methods for eliminating toxic waste . |
| 15 | A unanimous March 1990 decision to return the headquarters of the League from Tunis to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] led , however , to a serious dispute in September when it was decided to speed up the transfer , which was largely completed by the end of October [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 16 | English names were adopted to speed up the process of assimilation . |
| 17 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 18 | An activator may be used to speed up the process but certain basic principles should be borne in mind . |
| 19 | Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost . |
| 20 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 21 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 22 | There has been some improvement in recent years , but are not further measures needed to speed up the process ? |
| 23 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 24 | This is the name of a computer language that an American firm called Microdata developed to speed up the business of interrogating a database . |
| 25 | The present project aims to speed up the process at both the collection and analysis stages , by the development of software which will operate with speed , simplicity and flexibility , while the use of a portable computer will make it possible to enter material direct on to disc . |
| 26 | Indeed , this first step proceeded so smoothly that the EEC decided to speed up the timetable of tariff reductions . |
| 27 | In addition China undertook to speed up the passage of legislation to enable accession to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by March 1992 ( China had agreed in August to sign the treaty — see p. 38395 ) . |
| 28 | It does not have to re-analyse characters once they have been identified , which helps to speed up the processing of long documents . |
| 29 | However , while I accept all those things and I have sympathy with those staff in the workload that they have to deal with , there are many ways that we could start to speed up the system . |
| 30 | There are suspicions that Mr Kinnock , who will not intervene publicly in the contest , is trying to speed up the process in order to boost the chances of Mr Smith , who is believed to be his preferred successor . |