Example sentences of "speed up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , a sensible diet and exercise plan is very important but there are also specialist treatments which can speed up the slimming and rejuvenating programme . |
| 2 | The three found they could speed up the development of the 601 chip by combining work already under way at IBM with Motorola chip technology , and early next year , IBM , Apple and Motorola will announce the PowerOpen Association to rally support for the chip , which has so far won the backing only of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Thomson-CSF SA . |
| 3 | The information centre alternative can speed up the development of applications and maintenance ( as the users should be able to maintain the systems as well as develop them ) . |
| 4 | He wrote to McKenna , concerned about the continued obstruction and urging that the Home Office should speed up the bill 's progress . |
| 5 | Thus ‘ speculators ’ would buy undervalued currencies and sell overvalued ones , and in so doing would speed up the adjustment process . |
| 6 | Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines . |
| 7 | It would not make any difference if fluid was being poured into the funnel , but if the arrow traced the path of a ball-bearing dropped into the funnel then the baffle plate would speed up the descent of the ball into the tube part of the funnel , In the same way structural changes need to take account of what is to pass through the structure . |
| 8 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |
| 9 | PROFS expert Jim Sullivan says : ‘ If your information quality is good , then if you can speed up the information flow , you can speed up the decision cycles in the company . ’ |
| 10 | With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit . |
| 11 | That 's how quickly you can you can speed up the operation . |
| 12 | His senior aides are convinced they can speed up the Maastricht ratification process to meet the new deadline . |
| 13 | By covering the food during microwave cooking you can speed up the cooking procedure . |
| 14 | The pact would speed up the privatisation of 4,000 medium-sized and small state enterprises by giving workers a greater say in running them . |
| 15 | , director of the SFO , said that the introduction of plea bargaining would be ‘ the single most important reform ’ which would speed up the disposal of cases . |
| 16 | In time the development of the market would speed up the rate of urbanization and reshape the social structure , thereby undermining the traditional dominance of the Tsar and landowning nobility . |
| 17 | To make matters worse , chemical reactions on the surfaces of the ice cloud particles may speed up the rate of ozone depletion by some forms of chlorine especially chlorine monoxide ( figure 6.8 ; Stolarski , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | A friend in the office of collector of supply could greatly speed up the processing of the claims of allies , while at the same time delaying the completion of the titles of opponents . |
| 19 | A simple riffle system can speed up the processing of the lode |
| 20 | At a meeting on Nov. 30-Dec. 1 , EC Immigration Ministers , meeting in the context of the Trevi Group , agreed on measures to co-ordinate and speed up the processing of asylum seekers ' applications . |
| 21 | The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims . |
| 22 | It was stated above that full indexing — knowing the position of a record on a track — is seldom useful , because it does not usually speed up the search for that record . |
| 23 | Inner Cities Minister Sir George Young declared the Herculaneum Dock has been earmarked for Private Finance Initiative cash , which will speed up the hunt for a private sector developer . |
| 24 | His mother can speed up the process by putting a star chart on the wall ( I discuss these incentives on page 57 ) . |
| 25 | Although automatic edit controllers can be included in the set-up to simplify and speed up the process , the basic essentials are the same whether the job is done automatically or manually . |
| 26 | In a press statement , he noted that governmental exchanges would " speed up the process of the Republic of Moldava 's integration with Romania " . |
| 27 | Psychological models of speech recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 , Marslen-Wilson 1975 ) at first concentrated on the way in which sentential context could speed up the process of word recognition in fluent speech . |
| 28 | But it could also be used to their advantage in that how that erm absolute egalitarianism would speed up the process of land reform and eliminate feudalism whereas a moderate policy would just take ages for this to happen , so |
| 29 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 30 | A slight alteration to the course this year — work going on around the River Mersey means that the runners now have the luxury of running through the elegant Marina Complex , which should speed up the proceedings . |