Example sentences of "speed up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 2 | Such investment over and above plan targets must have speeded up modernization . |
| 3 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 4 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 5 | Eradication of H pylori speeds up ulcer healing , with a six week healing rate of 84.9% compared with 60% in patients with persistent H pylori infection ( p=0.0148 ) . |
| 6 | In addition , H pylori eradication speeds up ulcer healing and is associated with healing of previously refractory ulcers . |
| 7 | As Prest and Turvey ( 1965 , p. 688 ) state : ‘ Construction of a fast motorway , which itself speeds up traffic and reduces accidents , may lead to more congestion or more accidents on feeder roads if they are left unimproved . ’ |
| 8 | Sun wo n't let go of the advantages of its own technology , which include font maker technology originally from its 1988 acquisition of Folio Inc ( UX No 198 ) which speeds up font design , especially when big-alphabet Japanese , Korean , Taiwan and Chinese applications are involved . |
| 9 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 10 | However , they are now hitting physical limits to increasing computer performance and if this impressive progress is to be continued new approaches to speeding up computer performance will need to be developed . |
| 11 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 12 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 13 | Locally , the telephone was also speeding up business . |
| 14 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 15 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 16 | Many drivers were thinking twice about carrying out risky manoeuvres such as doing 90 miles an hour down the motorway even though such speeds benefited society in speeding up access to distant parts . |
| 17 | The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data . |
| 18 | The key was being able to offer a two-coat process , instead of the conventional primer-undercoat-topcoat approach , which saved time and speeded up production . |
| 19 | The cash will be spent on ‘ de-bottlenecking ’ the production line — bringing in new equipment to speed up manufacture . |
| 20 | Make a conscious effort to speed up activity in this way . |
| 21 | ROMS uses object caching to speed up performance while the DIG automates the development of data access methods , enabling a developer to generate code in a day , the company claims . |
| 22 | They also heard that the gantry was new , built to speed up painting work on the bridge . |
| 23 | But the key technological advance that has allowed the Soviets to speed up construction is the automation of welding . |
| 24 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 25 | WEST GERMANY wants its partners in Europe to speed up work on combating acid rain by stricter controls on air pollution . |
| 26 | Commentators said that the conciliatory tone of the speech indicated that South Korea was hoping to speed up reunification talks before Kim Il Sung transferred power to his son , Kim ChongIl . |
| 27 | Attempt to speed up pit closure white paper |
| 28 | The most likely outcome of such action would be to speed up privatisation of the service , since the Government could hardly empty the jails , and somebody would have to supervise the inmates . |
| 29 | LITHUANIA 'S former Communist Party leader Algirdas Brazauskas emerged as the republic 's new president yesterday and promised to speed up privatisation and promote foreign investment . |
| 30 | Far from being a natural cabinet chairman , he intervened and interfered repeatedly — mostly to speed up decision-making . |