Example sentences of "speed up the " in BNC.

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1 You can speed up the cooling by standing the pan in a sink full of cold water .
2 Kingfisher says it would speed up the closure of small Currys outlets and the shift to larger out-of-town sites .
3 Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines .
4 It is no use just heating things up ; that would again only speed up the reaction in the wrong direction .
5 The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has committed itself to reforms that will speed up the approval of drugs and reduce development costs .
6 Although the use of outside contractors will speed up the regulatory process , critics have expressed concern at using the industry to police itself .
7 His mother can speed up the process by putting a star chart on the wall ( I discuss these incentives on page 57 ) .
8 With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit .
9 By laying down larger areas of copper track , you will not only make the copper foil pattern better able to adhere to the board , but you will speed up the etching time also .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 His senior aides are convinced they can speed up the Maastricht ratification process to meet the new deadline .
13 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 .
14 ‘ This ’ says Mr Canta , ‘ will speed up the whole reporting process and give Intergraph more time for analysis ’ .
15 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 .
16 The survey ( Survey of Financial Consolidation Systems 1991 ) revealed that organisations can speed up the collection of financial data from their subsidiaries by up to 44% using automatic data capture techniques .
17 As part of this strategy , senior managers are using FDC to improve and speed up the production of monthly reports .
18 Placing the books or presses in an airing cupboard will speed up the pressing process slightly without damaging the flowers .
19 The company says that the graphical interface and automatic records that Workbench keeps will tremendously speed up the ‘ research ’ phase of maintenance .
20 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 .
21 This could speed up the introduction of HDTV in America .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 For its part , ICL hopes the initiative will speed up the delivery of system management tools and other components for mission critical Unix applications .
25 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 .
26 Thus ‘ speculators ’ would buy undervalued currencies and sell overvalued ones , and in so doing would speed up the adjustment process .
27 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 .
28 He wrote to McKenna , concerned about the continued obstruction and urging that the Home Office should speed up the bill 's progress .
29 A simple riffle system can speed up the processing of the lode
30 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 ) .
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