Example sentences of "give up [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , Merleau-Ponty proposed an open dialectic which would concede Marxism 's equivocalness , and give up the claim to the dialectical logic of History as a process of objective truth . |
| 2 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 3 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 4 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 5 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 6 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 7 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 8 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 9 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |