Example sentences of "to speed up [noun] " 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 | He wanted a more determined effort to speed up deliveries and to force an expansion of manufacturing capacity to meet the BEA 's greatly enlarged needs . |
| 5 | They also heard that the gantry was new , built to speed up painting work on the bridge . |
| 6 | To speed up Windows performance , SoftPC 3.0 includes special Windows display and mouse drivers that map Windows display and mouse instructions directly to the Motif environment . |
| 7 | But the key technological advance that has allowed the Soviets to speed up construction is the automation of welding . |
| 8 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 9 | Among the ideas under consideration are : — changes to bus lanes in a bid to speed up services ; — giving buses priority at traffic lights ; — contraflow bus lanes allowing public transport to travel against the main flow of traffic in a one way street ; — measures to protect bus stops from careless motorists who park illegally . |
| 10 | WEST GERMANY wants its partners in Europe to speed up work on combating acid rain by stricter controls on air pollution . |
| 11 | Their belief in ‘ maximum self-reliance ’ with regional parliaments retaining ‘ most legislative powers ’ did not prevent the British manifesto from declaring that a Green government would use the European courts to speed up UK compliance with EC environmental directives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Attempt to speed up pit closure white paper |
| 14 | to speed up investigations and criminal proceedings , |
| 15 | The convention 's eighth protocol , which was opened for signature in March 1985 and was intended to speed up procedures before the Commission of Human Rights and the Court of Human Rights ( see p. 33881 ) , came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 16 | While the intention was also to speed up procedures , the initial introduction caused some practical difficulties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Far from being a natural cabinet chairman , he intervened and interfered repeatedly — mostly to speed up decision-making . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Recent initiatives , such as the creation of Urban Development Corporations , have sought to speed up decision making and involve people with business experience . |
| 22 | If he wishes me to try to speed up replies , I shall certainly do so . |
| 23 | More trains are promised between Saltburn , Redcar , Middlesbrough and Darlington although the number of calls at South Bank will be reduced to speed up journeys . |
| 24 | Private bill attempts to speed up laws on knife offences |
| 25 | Mulford said that about $6,700 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed , mostly to front-line states , and he appealed to Japan and Germany to speed up payments . |
| 26 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Do not try to speed up progress by doing more goals in any one week than you should . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |