Example sentences of "give up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that she 'd give up a precious Friday evening for the pleasure of obliging Canon Wheeler for his beaux yeux was a myth she was happy to dispel . |
| 2 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 3 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 4 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 5 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 6 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 7 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 8 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 9 | came from the hospital to do her midwifery and there was a boy in Wrexham Hospital he 'd give up the permanent job to go to The Yale |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You give up a nice bed to come out here ? ’ he asks . |
| 12 | Work on restoring the Wimpy to its former self is proceeding well , thanks to its loyal band of workers , many of whom give up a considerable amount of spare time to work on the aircraft . |
| 13 | The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest . |
| 14 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 15 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 16 | Now she would have given up every lingering resentment , every long and bitter hatred , to have the boy back at Adam 's banker , humbly cutting stone . |
| 17 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 18 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 19 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 20 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 22 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 23 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( d ) Unsuccessful attempts to persuade other teachers to give up a reserve lesson in order to supervise the library . |