Example sentences of "[adj] give up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 3 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 4 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but I doubt you 'd find too many takers here willing to give up the delights of the West for a Russian dacha . ’ |
| 6 | It would be wrong , in my judgment , to order under subsection ( 2 ) the repayment of the price of shares unless it were known that the investor was willing to give up the shares . |
| 7 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 8 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 9 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 10 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 11 | I think it 's far too early to give up the term feminist . |
| 12 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 13 | Half of these gave up the drug ( British Medical Journal . |
| 14 | She would not be sorry to give up the job there . |
| 15 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
| 16 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 17 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |
| 18 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 19 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 20 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 21 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 22 | Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class . |
| 23 | ‘ I know it 's going to just kill Pilar to give up the house she loves . |
| 24 | All in Mr Honecker 's image , tough and second rate , they are not inclined to give up the hunting lodges and chauffeurs they feel are their due . |
| 25 | That failed you as my own gave up the ghost . |
| 26 | But when the fever struck in 1756 he was obliged to give up the periodical work by which he made a living in London . |
| 27 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 28 | Los Angeles trucker and sometime pugilist Philo Beddoe is ready to give up the fight game — until gambling mobster James Beekman ( Harry Guardino ) , who is looking for a match for his champion Jack Wilson , persuades him to change his mind . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 30 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |