Example sentences of "to give up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Despite talk of ‘ peaceful coexistence ’ with the West after Stalin , Russian leaders never intended to give up the ideological struggle with capitalism . |
| 10 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 11 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Plans to give up the daily commuter drag have been put on ice . |