Example sentences of "to speed up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cash will be spent on ‘ de-bottlenecking ’ the production line — bringing in new equipment to speed up manufacture . |
| 2 | Make a conscious effort to speed up activity in this way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They also heard that the gantry was new , built to speed up painting work on the bridge . |
| 5 | But the key technological advance that has allowed the Soviets to speed up construction is the automation of welding . |
| 6 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 7 | WEST GERMANY wants its partners in Europe to speed up work on combating acid rain by stricter controls on air pollution . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Attempt to speed up pit closure white paper |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Far from being a natural cabinet chairman , he intervened and interfered repeatedly — mostly to speed up decision-making . |
| 13 | Yet , like any good joke , there is an element of genuine pain behind one solicitor 's comment that ‘ one way to speed up litigation is do n't go to court ’ . |
| 14 | Recent initiatives , such as the creation of Urban Development Corporations , have sought to speed up decision making and involve people with business experience . |
| 15 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 16 | He maintained the IFA 's statement resulted from its desire to speed up court cases pending against IBM and used the tired old argument about local opposition blocking further investment and thus hurting the local economy : ‘ Irish Base Metals are working with a major oil company and we have to convince them that Ireland and Galway are good places for investment . |
| 17 | Do not try to speed up progress by doing more goals in any one week than you should . |
| 18 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 19 | The final communiqué of the Turnberry meeting noted that the ministers had instructed negotiators at the CFE talks to pursue " new approaches " , particularly on the numbers of aircraft and armour and on verification , in order to speed up progress towards a CFE agreement in 1990 . |
| 20 | The brewers of these beers want to produce them as fast as possible and use chemical additives to speed up fermentation , cut down on yeast head to get more liquid into the fermenters and to produce a beer with a thick head of foam . |
| 21 | In the days of calculators and computers , we no longer use log tables to speed up hand calculations . |
| 22 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 23 | Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years . |
| 24 | In the case of spoken words , context is used to speed up recognition by reducing the number of possible candidates in the cohort . |
| 25 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 26 | The ARA used its good offices to speed up railway agreements between Latvia and Poland on the one hand , and Russia on the other , so that relief supplies could flow in more easily from Western Europe . |
| 27 | British Coal Enterprise Ltd has recently set up a Fast Track Loans Scheme to provide almost ‘ instant loans ’ for small businesses in a bid to speed up job creation in pit closure areas . |
| 28 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 29 | In other moves to improve the government 's human rights record , Babangida instructed the Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau to compile a list of people held under Decree 2 of 1984 , which permitted detention for six months without trial , and to speed up prosecution of those against whom evidence existed . |
| 30 | The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation . |