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

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1 With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit .
2 The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims .
3 Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines .
4 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 .
5 Psychological models of speech recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 , Marslen-Wilson 1975 ) at first concentrated on the way in which sentential context could speed up the process of word recognition in fluent speech .
6 This could speed up the introduction of HDTV in America .
7 It would not make any difference if fluid was being poured into the funnel , but if the arrow traced the path of a ball-bearing dropped into the funnel then the baffle plate would speed up the descent of the ball into the tube part of the funnel , In the same way structural changes need to take account of what is to pass through the structure .
8 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 .
9 Kingfisher says it would speed up the closure of small Currys outlets and the shift to larger out-of-town sites .
10 But it could also be used to their advantage in that how that erm absolute egalitarianism would speed up the process of land reform and eliminate feudalism whereas a moderate policy would just take ages for this to happen , so
11 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 .
12 , director of the SFO , said that the introduction of plea bargaining would be ‘ the single most important reform ’ which would speed up the disposal of cases .
13 Inner Cities Minister Sir George Young declared the Herculaneum Dock has been earmarked for Private Finance Initiative cash , which will speed up the hunt for a private sector developer .
14 In keeping with our policy of a sustained level of capital expenditure irrespective of industry cycles , we will be investing further in latest generation hardware and will speed up the introduction of new field software .
15 For its part , ICL hopes the initiative will speed up the delivery of system management tools and other components for mission critical Unix applications .
16 The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has committed itself to reforms that will speed up the approval of drugs and reduce development costs .
17 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 ) .
18 The information centre alternative can speed up the development of applications and maintenance ( as the users should be able to maintain the systems as well as develop them ) .
19 A simple riffle system can speed up the processing of the lode
20 His mother can speed up the process by putting a star chart on the wall ( I discuss these incentives on page 57 ) .
21 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 .
22 You can speed up the cooling by standing the pan in a sink full of cold water .
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