Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] speed [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the name of a computer language that an American firm called Microdata developed to speed up the business of interrogating a database . |
| 2 | In addition China undertook to speed up the passage of legislation to enable accession to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by March 1992 ( China had agreed in August to sign the treaty — see p. 38395 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , this first step proceeded so smoothly that the EEC decided to speed up the timetable of tariff reductions . |
| 4 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 5 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |