Example sentences of "[noun pl] to speed up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These include : defining suitable values for the number of simulations required in a GIS environment rather than a statistical hypothesis-testing one ; assessing the utility of kernel estimators as an approximation that may allow smaller numbers of simulations to be used ; investigating the possibility of predicting the final output regions without performing large numbers of simulations ; and investigating possible hardware solutions to speed up the simulation process .
2 The Department of Transport should ‘ take immediate steps to speed up the rate of progress of road maintenance research , ’ the MPs said .
3 The method adopted by larger animals to speed up the distribution of essential materials is to force carrier-fluid through transport systems .
4 THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning .
5 Other ideas to free the town 's roads include contraflow lanes , which allow buses to go against the main traffic flow , and giving buses priority at busy junctions and traffic lights to speed up the service .
6 In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force .
7 Aims to speed up the process of development control and make the planning system ‘ as positive and as helpful as it can be to investment in industry and commerce , and to the development industry ’ .
8 IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’
9 Other recommendations include the need for policies to speed up the exploitation of renewable energy technologies ( such as wind , wave , solar and geothermal power ) which do not Produce carbon dioxide , the most important greenhouse gas .
10 We announced in the Budget new measures to help small businesses , including full relief against Inheritance Tax on most business assets , reductions in business rates and proposals to speed up the payment of outstanding bills .
11 In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months .
12 Or will they resort to legal measures to speed up the process of the ‘ physical disappearance of the unwanted ’ ?
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