Example sentences of "to speed up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | A victory for the pragmatists may help them to speed up the reforms . |
| 33 | With practice it is possible to speed up the procedure by keeping one hand on the carriage and using the other to manipulate the stitches with the transfer tool . |
| 34 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | On Oct. 14 Gen. Ahmed Sahal Ali was appointed as the new commander of the armed forces and instructed to speed up the formation of a single national army . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 39 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 42 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 43 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 44 | One of the aims , within the framework of the taxpayer 's charter , is to speed up the allocation of payments to creditors . |
| 45 | At first glance , it would seem logical to add as much salt and glucose to the solution as possible in order to speed up the rehydration process . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The decision was clearly a response to events at the Sept. 7-18 congress of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation , a specialized organ of the PCT , when delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process ( already agreed in principle by the PCT in July — see p. 37602 ) . |
| 48 | In fact , midway through the first song , only the size of the band dissuaded you from buying a round to speed up the process . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | An activator may be used to speed up the process but certain basic principles should be borne in mind . |
| 52 | If , on the other hand , a small but well-distributed population already exists , it will respond on its own as environmental conditions improve , although even here it might well be sensible to import new stock to speed up the process . |
| 53 | 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 ’ . |
| 54 | English names were adopted to speed up the process of assimilation . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . ’ |
| 57 | Or will they resort to legal measures to speed up the process of the ‘ physical disappearance of the unwanted ’ ? |
| 58 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
| 59 | Index arbitrage in the UK has been hampered in the past by the lack of a mechanism ( such as DOT in the USA ) to speed up the process of trading a basket of shares , the requirement to pay stamp duty and insufficient liquidity to cope with large arbitrage trades without an adverse price movement ( Price , 1988 ) . |
| 60 | Later , when modern machinery enabled them to speed up the process , the realisation came that twenty-five acres was probably more than enough to cope with , what with the borders , lawns and terraces into the bargain . |