Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] giving up the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | France signed an agreement with China whereby in return for giving up the territorial concessions in the treaty ports , handing over the Yunnan railway , and meeting sundry other Chinese demands , they agreed to withdraw their troops from Indo-China by 15 March . |
2 | This is a very nasty rip-off trick to play on the unsuspecting public as a petrol crank will last until well out of the guarantee period before giving up the unequal struggle . |
3 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
4 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
5 | McGillicuddy would n't relish the idea of giving up the General Director 's job as European overlord , but he was also sixty and could be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement . |