Example sentences of "to give up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 2 | ( Phil , from my old club at Royston , has joined in the support , a real act of friendship for a young man to give up a weekend to support an old woman . |
| 3 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 4 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 5 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 6 | It 's horrid to give up a leave that you really have earned , and I 'm sorry to have to ask you . |
| 7 | But who wants to give up a year or more to check someone else 's work ? |
| 8 | How many of us would be prepared to give up a year or more of life to pay back a debt from which we never benefitted , to satisfy the banks ? |
| 9 | But then who wants to give up a bowling green ? |
| 10 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 11 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 12 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 13 | " Princes cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not decide them to give up a rank which they believe to be their right " . |
| 14 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 15 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 16 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 17 | For single women especially , who may feel that they have to give up a career , knowing what facilities are available could prove a veritable godsend . |
| 18 | And you 've even got to give up a coupon for two ounces of knitting wool as well . |
| 19 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 20 | Now , supposing that I want A to do something for B , like in 's case , A to give up a food item for B. Okay . |
| 21 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 22 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 23 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 24 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 26 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) If any person with intent to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( a ) to give up the occupation of the premises or any part thereof ; or |
| 28 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 29 | Healey dropped hints in Washington that Britain — in the long run — might decide to give up the Singapore base . |
| 30 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |