Example sentences of "give up [art] " in BNC.

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1 All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space .
2 Deer Park , which has already lost tens of millions of dollars in academic revenue sharing , will reluctantly give up a bit more .
3 The idea that she 'd give up a precious Friday evening for the pleasure of obliging Canon Wheeler for his beaux yeux was a myth she was happy to dispel .
4 But why , policyholders may well ask , should they give up a 40 per cent stake in the business ?
5 Wo n't give up a point for
6 I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live .
7 If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions .
8 When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it .
9 Clearly upset , the 51-year-old entrepreneur said that his group would not give up the fight .
10 For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission .
11 He had , after all , made it very clear that the Germans would never give up the Deutsche Mark unless what they got in return was just as good .
12 While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible .
13 Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ?
14 Bono and U2 sometimes wonder , but do n't give up the fight .
15 In 1992 a future king renounces the wife he no longer loves but says he wo n't give up the throne .
16 ‘ It 'll just collapse and give up the ghost somewhere in France .
17 After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back .
18 She would never give up the princes .
19 If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit .
20 The check-flights will keep the airframe ‘ live ’ and allow a ferry flight to another destination , if the RAF do give up the aircraft , to be a much more cost effective proposition than the notion of dismantling her .
21 That 's about it for July — if the weather is lovely do n't give up the knitting — carry the machine out in the garden and work under the shade of a tree .
22 Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself .
23 We will not give up the US customer base to anyone unless it 's done in a partnership .
24 After 35 years as president of the company he founded back in 1957 , Ken Olsen will give up the reins at Digital Equipment Corp this October , aged 66 .
25 Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ .
26 ( 2 ) That the King would not give up the chance of marrying Mrs Simpson .
27 and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment
28 ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job .
29 For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties .
30 If this is repeated on several occasions , the government can either give up the proposal or take government time , have a short debate and then push the matter through .
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