Example sentences of "[noun] give up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |
| 2 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 3 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 4 | Plans to give up the daily commuter drag have been put on ice . |
| 5 | To feed oneself means giving up the marvellous comfort of being fed , to walk alone means giving up the pleasant passivity of being carried . |
| 6 | To feed oneself means giving up the marvellous comfort of being fed , to walk alone means giving up the pleasant passivity of being carried . |
| 7 | By 1952 almost all English education authorities had adopted an intelligence test in their selection process ; psychologists debated the effects of social agencies coaching and practice — on IQ scores ; but Hertfordshire gave up the eleven-plus exam altogether , after having had one for at least fifteen years . |
| 8 | Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference : whatever kind of front five was chosen , static or mobile , Wales were beaten , and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 9 | Without delay , the fire-fighters gave up the unequal struggle to contain the leaping flames . |