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

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1 The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel .
2 These include : defining suitable values for the number of simulations required in a GIS environment rather than a statistical hypothesis-testing one ; assessing the utility of kernel estimators as an approximation that may allow smaller numbers of simulations to be used ; investigating the possibility of predicting the final output regions without performing large numbers of simulations ; and investigating possible hardware solutions to speed up the simulation process .
3 The Department of Transport should ‘ take immediate steps to speed up the rate of progress of road maintenance research , ’ the MPs said .
4 The method adopted by larger animals to speed up the distribution of essential materials is to force carrier-fluid through transport systems .
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 Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over .
7 Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over .
8 After ordering that Ward 's court costs were to be paid by the British taxpayer he called for both prosecution and defence in fraud trials to declare their hands to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up the proceedings .
9 Usually it is a smudge of product rubbed on the back of the hand , a lot of agonising , and some advice from the consultant to speed up the sale .
10 At least a portion of the jewish population was saving its skin by allying with the Party , for in April we discover 400 Jewish delegates in Minsk speeding up the fight against Zionism and proposing the closure of their religious schools in Belorussia , a notion which had become a reality by September according to the central press .
11 Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times .
12 On March 26 the Yugoslav government urged the UN to speed up the arrival of the full contingent of UNIPROFOR , planned for the first half of April , because of the deteriorating security situation in the Croatian border areas .
13 It urged governments to speed up the phasing out of ozone-destroying chemicals , however .
14 THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning .
15 The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " .
16 Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms .
17 Although this procedure speeds up the meeting , the dangers of such a course of action should be realised .
18 Other ideas to free the town 's roads include contraflow lanes , which allow buses to go against the main traffic flow , and giving buses priority at busy junctions and traffic lights to speed up the service .
19 At a meeting with US Secretary of State James Baker on July 13 , Prime Minister Hage Geingob asked the USA to use its influence with South Africa to speed up the negotiations over the port of Walvis Bay , which remained under South African jurusdiction .
20 The silver ball sped up the slight incline lighting up the Bakelite mushrooms as it struck them , ricocheting back and forwards , up and down , before vanishing down the hole in the corner .
21 This meeting resulted in a government pledge to speed up the meeting of the revueltos ' demands .
22 In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force .
23 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 ’ .
24 While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential .
25 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 . ’
26 In fact , midway through the first song , only the size of the band dissuaded you from buying a round to speed up the process .
27 Both machines should have cue/review to speed up the location and setting of edit-points , this being the most time-consuming part of the process .
28 Other recommendations include the need for policies to speed up the exploitation of renewable energy technologies ( such as wind , wave , solar and geothermal power ) which do not Produce carbon dioxide , the most important greenhouse gas .
29 We announced in the Budget new measures to help small businesses , including full relief against Inheritance Tax on most business assets , reductions in business rates and proposals to speed up the payment of outstanding bills .
30 They advocated the promotion of party schools at the guberniia level to speed up the educational attainments of local leaders so that they really could set the tone in political culture in sufficient numbers without having to depend so much on shaky agents .
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