Example sentences of "[prep] speed up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Delegated legislation , decisions of the courts , and changing administrative practice , amounted to a sluggish dynamic for speeding up the ability of the criminal justice system to respond .
2 A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age .
3 This was later to be criticised as imposing an unnecessary conservatism on design ( pp. 104–10 , below ) , but at that time ( with shortages of skilled draughtsmen and engineers , and the overriding priority of speeding up the installation of safe and reliable sets ) it was widely supported by the manufacturers and the CEB as well as in Whitehall .
4 Given the paucity of aggregate savings and the narrow base for taxation , most governments in LDCs resort to budgetary deficits , financed through the printing of money , as a means of speeding up the process of economic development .
5 The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications .
6 The report urged industrialized countries to assist the developing world by speeding up the completion of the " Uruguay Round " of trade liberalization talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 38411 ] and by reducing the burden of commercial debt .
7 Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant .
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