Example sentences of "give up the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 5 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 6 | However I had to learn to delegate responsibility and realize that in climbing the executive ladder one had to give up the basic satisfaction of creative production . |
| 7 | To feed oneself means giving up the marvellous comfort of being fed , to walk alone means giving up the pleasant passivity of being carried . |
| 8 | To feed oneself means giving up the marvellous comfort of being fed , to walk alone means giving up the pleasant passivity of being carried . |
| 9 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 10 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 11 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |