Example sentences of "give up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 2 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 3 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 4 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 5 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 6 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 7 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Down 's Syndrome Association desperately need volunteers to give up a few hours before or after work on Thursday June 24 to help them collect donations at mainline stations . |
| 10 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 11 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As suggested elsewhere , one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fifthly , rebellion , giving up the conventional goals and means and replacing them with new ones . |
| 17 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 18 | Men gave up the very linings of their greatcoats to provide the little creatures with fur . |
| 19 | This massive forced deportation concluded Charles ' conquest of Saxony , for as a chronicler records ‘ henceforth they abandoned worship of evil spirits , and gave up the wicked customs of their forefathers , received the sacrament of Christian baptism , mingling with the Franks until at last they were reckoned as one race … ’ |