Example sentences of "[verb] give up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 2 | Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson . |
| 3 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 4 | My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’ |
| 5 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc , one of the players , has given up the SparcWare designation used by its Catalyst independent software vendor programme to the group 's new binary-compatible branding scheme . |
| 7 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 8 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 9 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 10 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 11 | An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery . |
| 12 | ‘ If one of my patients wants to give up a potentially curative treatment in favour of an alternative therapy , then I will try to dissuade them . |
| 13 | But who wants to give up a year or more to check someone else 's work ? |
| 14 | But then who wants to give up a bowling green ? |
| 15 | Surveys have shown that a majority of adult smokers want to give up the habit . |
| 16 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't understand why he 'd given up a job he clearly loved to come back here . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 19 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 20 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 21 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 22 | Also in January I reported that the Queen had decided to give up the bottle . |
| 23 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 24 | This sea change is neatly embodied in the name of one Biarritz hotel which I noticed , the Victoria-Surf , whose owners are evidently hedging their bets , looking to the democratic future but not yet prepared to give up the blue blooded past . |
| 25 | When are you going to give up the life of a gypsy and settle down here to become eccentric and safe ? ’ |
| 26 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 27 | Some have reluctantly had to give up an earlier nursing career because of ill health , or to care for a dependent partner , close relative or friend . |
| 28 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 29 | Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves . |
| 30 | But the funding fell through , and she was told to give up the project . |