Example sentences of "give [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 2 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 3 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 4 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 5 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 6 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 7 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 8 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 9 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 10 | I mean he gave up work for a long time did n't he ? |
| 11 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 12 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |