Example sentences of "[verb] up its [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | Breastfeeding speeds up its return to normal size after birth . |
2 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
3 | It must also follow up its commitment to the Climate Change Convention signed and championed by Prime Minister John Major at the Rio Earth Summit in June . |
4 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
5 | Stepping up its commitment to the Unix market , this announcement follows a stream of similar agreements including ports to Novell Inc 's NetWare and Univel Inc for UnixWare . |
6 | Japan is the only one of the 37 Ramsar signatories not to involve environmental organisations in drawing up its report to the convention . |
7 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
8 | However , the WPA was persuaded to give up its seat to the PPP , as did the TUF ; in return the PPP , which as the majority party had the constitutional right to determine the two NCLDO seats , allocated one to itself and the other to the WPA ; the final distribution of Assembly seats was PPP 35 , PNC 27 , WPA 2 , TUF 1 . |
9 | These give off ethylene gas which reacts with the starch to speed up its conversion to sugar . |
10 | His back was hideously burned and smouldering , the long black coat split up its length to the collar . |
11 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) said on Dec. 17 that it was prepared to step up its contribution to peacekeeping in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 39240 ; for declarations at CSCE and ICO meetings see pp. 39250 ; 39251 ] . |