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

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1 It is fast-drying , all the colours will dry overnight , so it is particularly suitable if you need to speed up a glazing process for example .
2 It is fast-drying , all the colours will dry overnight , so it is particularly suitable if you need to speed up a glazing process for example .
3 In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit .
4 Mr Christopher plans to ask Israel to speed up a review of the case .
5 Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program .
6 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 .
7 The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened .
8 The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) .
9 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 .
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 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 " .
13 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 .
14 A unanimous March 1990 decision to return the headquarters of the League from Tunis to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] led , however , to a serious dispute in September when it was decided to speed up the transfer , which was largely completed by the end of October [ see p. 37726 ] .
15 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 .
16 To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime .
17 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 ) .
18 It can help to speed up the work where an investigation involves the results from several different cases .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Currency markets , however , take the view that the deficit is so large that only a lower exchange rate will help to speed up the adjustment .
22 A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils .
23 The EPA also plans to speed up the selection of clean-up strategies and to standardise methods for eliminating toxic waste .
24 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 .
25 However , while I accept all those things and I have sympathy with those staff in the workload that they have to deal with , there are many ways that we could start to speed up the system .
26 THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning .
27 erm phrases for in fact quite adequately to speed up the transcription .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk .
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