Example sentences of "[verb] speed up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LITHUANIA 'S former Communist Party leader Algirdas Brazauskas emerged as the republic 's new president yesterday and promised to speed up privatisation and promote foreign investment . |
| 2 | Recent initiatives , such as the creation of Urban Development Corporations , have sought to speed up decision making and involve people with business experience . |
| 3 | They also heard that the gantry was new , built to speed up painting work on the bridge . |
| 4 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 5 | In the case of spoken words , context is used to speed up recognition by reducing the number of possible candidates in the cohort . |
| 6 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 7 | Such investment over and above plan targets must have speeded up modernization . |
| 8 | Do not try to speed up progress by doing more goals in any one week than you should . |
| 9 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 10 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 11 | ROMS uses object caching to speed up performance while the DIG automates the development of data access methods , enabling a developer to generate code in a day , the company claims . |
| 12 | Tan accelerators claim to speed up production of melanin — the pigment produced by your skin in the sun — but there 's no evidence that they work . |
| 13 | Attempt to speed up pit closure white paper |
| 14 | Commentators said that the conciliatory tone of the speech indicated that South Korea was hoping to speed up reunification talks before Kim Il Sung transferred power to his son , Kim ChongIl . |
| 15 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 16 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 17 | Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years . |