Example sentences of "give up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 2 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 3 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest . |
| 8 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 9 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 13 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 16 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 17 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 18 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 19 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 20 | They had even been forced to give up the prestigious Company barge , unable to afford the cost of its repair and the wages of the bargemaster . |
| 21 | She and Jim talked together secretly about leaving the house and going off to somewhere ‘ more committed ’ , but Phoebe could not bring herself to give up the only home she knew of , could not bring herself to choose absolutely Jim 's commitments over the women 's commitments . |
| 22 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 23 | Despite talk of ‘ peaceful coexistence ’ with the West after Stalin , Russian leaders never intended to give up the ideological struggle with capitalism . |
| 24 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 25 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 26 | However I had to learn to delegate responsibility and realize that in climbing the executive ladder one had to give up the basic satisfaction of creative production . |
| 27 | Plans to give up the daily commuter drag have been put on ice . |
| 28 | There is intense perceived pain in contemplating giving up the mood-altering substance or behaviour and making further major changes in these " pictures " of reality . |
| 29 | To feed oneself means giving up the marvellous comfort of being fed , to walk alone means giving up the pleasant passivity of being carried . |
| 30 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |