Example sentences of "be [verb] to give up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has no full time consultants and now the G Ps are warning they may be forced to give up the hospital work because the Department of Health is planning to put them all on new contracts from next year . |
| 2 | Cricket is the only even vaguely athletic endeavour I involve myself in , unless you count walking the dog or grovelling to my bank manager , so if I am forced to give up the game by the purchase of these new sightscreens , my fitness will suffer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 5 | He must certainly see about spectacles ; it would be worse than anything if he were compelled to give up the reader 's position with Mr Lamprey . |
| 6 | Eventually , as much for hygienic reasons as out of a desire to conform with Moscow 's example of de-Stalinization , the Czechs were forced to give up the battle to keep Gottwald 's corpse from going green and bury him instead . |
| 7 | Smokers who are motivated to give up the habit may benefit from cessation clinics or self-help groups , although smokers should be cautious about claims of high success rates made by some clinics . |
| 8 | He 's the man that 's kept the team going … the man that 's had to brush off all the jokes and mikey taking … the man that 's refused to give up the fight |
| 9 | But the funding fell through , and she was told to give up the project . |