Example sentences of "give up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 2 | I 'm sure the people who 's actually used the studio theatre would willingly give up that week before it never used to happen . |
| 3 | The professor will normally be allowed to retain his full stipend during any term of sabbatical leave provided that ( a ) he will spend a considerable part of his leave in advanced study or research ; ( b ) he will give up all teaching and administrative duties in Oxford other than examining and graduate supervision ; ( c ) if after taking account of any loss of normal sources of income and any gain of income from new sources ( less any additional expenses associated with new activities ) , he is in a better financial position than if he had not taken leave , he will forgo from his stipend such sum as will leave him in approximately the same financial state as if he had not taken leave . |
| 4 | Some 30 named attendees heard a long and detailed speech from the Mayor in which he hinted that ‘ for reasons which he need not go into they must give up all idea of the links becoming the property of the town ’ . |
| 5 | But although Cuvier won immense prestige for his work as a comparative anatomist , he was unable to convince many naturalists that they should give up all hope of being able to predict the overall pattern of natural relationships and hence the ‘ missing ’ species still waiting to be discovered . |
| 6 | But by the time you were born I could n't give up Other world ; I was deep in the battle we wage here against the powers of the dark , and to leave it would have been deserting . |
| 7 | Whatever the language , the epidemiologists ' curves illustrated in Chapter 3 do suggest that the majority of the new users will eventually give up daily heroin use . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 9 | Well think , did n't she give up last year ? she said something about it last year on radio , on no smoking day . |
| 10 | ‘ If that happens while he is in our custody , ’ continued Miles , ‘ you can give up any hope of getting your brother back ; and we need him . ’ |
| 11 | By May 1915 Unionist leaders were convinced that they must give up some independence if they were to influence the war ; the liquor issue seemed to show the danger of staying aloof , and the shell scandal seemed to show that they were needed inside . |
| 12 | The shape of the budget line changes to 175 ; after point 7 the individual can consume more of good X , but to do so she must give up some quantity of good Y. In the example shown the new welfare maximum for the individual is on the corner point , 7 . |
| 13 | The other change is the invalid-care allowance which is paid to men and women who give up paid employment in order to care for a sick or elderly person , not necessarily a relative . |
| 14 | Perhaps you need to buy a reliable alarm clock , or give up early-morning TV and settle for hearing the day 's news on radio . |
| 15 | You can expect a long and happy life if you give up serious music . |
| 16 | and they 're saying well why go to school , because if I go I give up that income , half goes to mum |
| 17 | If you mumble or burble , give up all thought of advocacy . |
| 18 | If so , give up all animal milks for a while and try soya milk instead . |
| 19 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 20 | Older people often give up sexual intercourse because it has become painful . |
| 21 | Charlie had left me with only two choices : I could try to run the baker 's shop myself and give up any thought of taking a degree , or I could sell out to the highest bidder . |
| 22 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
| 23 | When Ma died , he had always planned to break away completely , give up this life and build a new one . |
| 24 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 25 | Nagging ‘ but … you 've got everything now ’ , ‘ please save your life/because you 've only got one ’ … which is why people give up pop music , in the end . |
| 26 | My daughters have taken you to themselves as a sister ; João I know has shown you every courtesy and kindness — and I myself give up valuable time each day to speak to you . |
| 27 | These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 29 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |