Example sentences of "to speed up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canosa met the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev , and claimed on Dec. 27 that the Russian government intended to end Cuba 's lifeline of economic subsidies and to speed up the withdrawal of Russian troops as part of its new policy towards Cuba . |
| 2 | The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened . |
| 3 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 4 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 5 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 6 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It also urges the government to calculate the costs of allergies and asthma triggered by environmental factors , and to speed up the finalization of promised guidelines on the rights of people to smoke-free air at work and in public places and the segregation of smokers and non-smokers . |
| 9 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 10 | The EPA also plans to speed up the selection of clean-up strategies and to standardise methods for eliminating toxic waste . |
| 11 | It will not be easy to speed up the system by which mentally disordered people are moved through the courts , prisons , NHS hospitals , Special Hospitals and , eventually , back into the normal community . |
| 12 | THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning . |
| 13 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 14 | USL 's action looks likely to speed up the pace of this convergence , which may see it become Pinnacle UK before the end of the year , though that depends on how well the two companies work together in the interim , says Unix Solutions ' Quing Tsang . |
| 15 | An alternative explanation lies in Dr Mahatir 's ‘ look East ’ policy , designed to break away — finally and for ever — from the colonial past and to speed up the pace of change by harnessing the vitality of Japanese firms . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Muoi was widely regarded as a cautious leader who would be unlikely to speed up the pace of reform . |
| 17 | The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB . |
| 18 | The reaction was to try to speed up the reallocation of those remaining at Barham House ( a process which was unintentionally assisted by the activation of the internment laws ) , to provide the best possible reason for closing the place down . |
| 19 | If the Home Secretary meant what he says about keeping public sympathy for genuine refugees , he would address the need for extra resources for the Home Office and Lunar house to speed up the procedures for asylum seeking . |
| 20 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | With practice it is possible to speed up the procedure by keeping one hand on the carriage and using the other to manipulate the stitches with the transfer tool . |
| 22 | Instead the women 's movement devised its own strict code of appearance which served to speed up the fragmentation of the fashion scene . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On Oct. 14 Gen. Ahmed Sahal Ali was appointed as the new commander of the armed forces and instructed to speed up the formation of a single national army . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 27 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 28 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 29 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 30 | One of the aims , within the framework of the taxpayer 's charter , is to speed up the allocation of payments to creditors . |