Example sentences of "give up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 2 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) That the King would not give up the chance of marrying Mrs Simpson . |
| 4 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 5 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 6 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 7 | For people who ca n't give up the taste of salt , health experts recommend switching to low-sodium salt alternatives . |
| 8 | It means — give up the price of a meal , or even a choc-bar snack , and give the money to SCF , whose life-saving work in Africa is again being targeted . |
| 9 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 10 | I would not to-morrow , for the sake of a united Ireland , give up the policy of trying to make this a really Irish Ireland — not by any means . |
| 11 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 12 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 13 | I have given up a lot of my independence . ’ |
| 14 | Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship . |
| 15 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 16 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 17 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 18 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 19 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 20 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 21 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 22 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 23 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 24 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 25 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 26 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 27 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) If any person with intent to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( a ) to give up the occupation of the premises or any part thereof ; or |
| 29 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 30 | A GUN collector has been ordered by a court to give up the arsenal of weapons he had gathered since he was 16 . |