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

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1 A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils .
2 If the Home Secretary meant what he says about keeping public sympathy for genuine refugees , he would address the need for extra resources for the Home Office and Lunar house to speed up the procedures for asylum seeking .
3 A victory for the pragmatists may help them to speed up the reforms .
4 At a meeting with US Secretary of State James Baker on July 13 , Prime Minister Hage Geingob asked the USA to use its influence with South Africa to speed up the negotiations over the port of Walvis Bay , which remained under South African jurusdiction .
5 After ordering that Ward 's court costs were to be paid by the British taxpayer he called for both prosecution and defence in fraud trials to declare their hands to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up the proceedings .
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