Example sentences of "to speed [adv] the process " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , midway through the first song , only the size of the band dissuaded you from buying a round to speed up the process . |
2 | There are suspicions that Mr Kinnock , who will not intervene publicly in the contest , is trying to speed up the process in order to boost the chances of Mr Smith , who is believed to be his preferred successor . |
3 | If laboratory scale experiments indicate , however , that the indigenous microfauna are unable to degrade the contaminants , enrichment cultures of microorganisms may be added to speed up the process . |
4 | An activator may be used to speed up the process but certain basic principles should be borne in mind . |
5 | If , on the other hand , a small but well-distributed population already exists , it will respond on its own as environmental conditions improve , although even here it might well be sensible to import new stock to speed up the process . |
6 | Aims to speed up the process of development control and make the planning system ‘ as positive and as helpful as it can be to investment in industry and commerce , and to the development industry ’ . |
7 | English names were adopted to speed up the process of assimilation . |
8 | Indeed , in a move designed to speed up the process Lloyd has made a ‘ little publicised ’ offer to the Lawn Tennis Associations ITI set up , which would see him build centres — ITI centres — and run them as such , in addition to running them as private clubs . |
9 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
10 | Or will they resort to legal measures to speed up the process of the ‘ physical disappearance of the unwanted ’ ? |
11 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
12 | Index arbitrage in the UK has been hampered in the past by the lack of a mechanism ( such as DOT in the USA ) to speed up the process of trading a basket of shares , the requirement to pay stamp duty and insufficient liquidity to cope with large arbitrage trades without an adverse price movement ( Price , 1988 ) . |
13 | Later , when modern machinery enabled them to speed up the process , the realisation came that twenty-five acres was probably more than enough to cope with , what with the borders , lawns and terraces into the bargain . |
14 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
15 | In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months . |
16 | There has been some improvement in recent years , but are not further measures needed to speed up the process ? |
17 | I hope that the hon. Lady will vote for the Bill , because its purpose is to speed up the process . |
18 | I accept that , if there are unnecessary bureaucratic rules or regulations or ways to get forms filled out singly rather than in triplicate , we shall do everything we can to speed up the process . |
19 | The present project aims to speed up the process at both the collection and analysis stages , by the development of software which will operate with speed , simplicity and flexibility , while the use of a portable computer will make it possible to enter material direct on to disc . |
20 | The UN Secretary-General 's special envoy in the Iran-Iraq peace talks , Jan Eliasson , shuttled between Tehran and Baghdad , the capitals of Iran and Iraq , between Nov. 1 and 16 to speed up the process . |
21 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |