Example sentences of "to give up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 2 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 3 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 4 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 5 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 6 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 7 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 10 | And you 've even got to give up a coupon for two ounces of knitting wool as well . |
| 11 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 12 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 13 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 16 | ( 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 |
| 17 | ( 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 . |
| 18 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |
| 19 | A GUN collector has been ordered by a court to give up the arsenal of weapons he had gathered since he was 16 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In a fiery speech at the " peace summit " on May 24 , the king had warned the ANC against verbal attacks on his people , which he called " killing talk " , and said that he would not acquiesce in demands to give up the bearing of traditional weapons . |
| 22 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 23 | For most cars you will have to give up the whole of your mobility supplement for the three year period . |
| 24 | When are you going to give up the life of a gypsy and settle down here to become eccentric and safe ? ’ |
| 25 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 26 | ‘ Had it not gone , I was about to give up the idea of being a producer in my own right . ’ |
| 27 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 28 | He also said that there 's no reason to give up the dream of economic growth but then there you go . |
| 29 | Apathy is usually ascribed only to one side — the parents — and that is sometimes thought to give a sufficient reason for teachers and schools to give up the struggle of recruiting them as allies . |
| 30 | However , in the meantime it was a daunting thought that if I took promotion I would have to give up the job in which I was most happy . |