Example sentences of "[vb mod] give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French ministers must give up their seats to substitutes , who then have to wait a month before they may vote . |
| 2 | Many dictate that you must give up your smelly , messy , untrained child-eater ( their opinion , not ours ) before you may be considered lucky enough to be offered lodgings . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The so-called White Memorandum ( March 1942 ) proposed that in such districts the Churches ( in practice , the Church of England ) must give up their schools . |
| 5 | In order to claim that you have been constructively dismissed , you must give up your job in response to the breaking of your contract . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important consequence of a limited partner 's role is that in return for his limited liability he must give up his normal right to participate in the management of the partnership . |
| 7 | They told her she must give up Christianity and deny , not only God and all the saints , but her father , her mother , and all her friends . |
| 8 | Animals again can easily be accommodated at this level but it will not follow from this that they will be capable of the conscious distress or anxiety of a parent at an injury to their child , or of the hamstrung athlete warned by the doctor that they must give up running . |
| 9 | However , once they learn the conventional term for a specific meaning , they must give up their own coinage and begin instead to use the conventional term . |
| 10 | In April Neville Chamberlain had told Davidson he must give up his post as party Chairman . |
| 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 | We must give up regarding " good English " as merely a social or literary accomplishment , and … endeavour by research and by exposition to equip the masses with the ability to exercise a reasoned choice in the employment of language ; in other words … we must regard the training of the linguistic consciousness as an essential part of primary and secondary as well as University education . |
| 13 | Dear God , I must give up drink . |
| 14 | And people who strangle their infants , thus causing their admissions , must give up the practice thereafter . |
| 15 | But a priest must give up all that . |
| 16 | After this dance , Lalage must give up her predatory conquest . |
| 17 | Going further , Sigmoid retreated into one of his annoying fits of purity , declaring , ‘ To achieve godliness , my boy , you must give up all possessions … ’ |
| 18 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Newtown Coaches , from Reeth Place , Newton Aycliffe , was told by Durham County Council it must give up running the route from Darlington to Bishopton after complaints about the service . |
| 21 | Wheelchair-bound Mrs Betty Richardson and her husband , Jim , of Newton Aycliffe , claimed they must give up shopping in Darlington after 20 years . |
| 22 | When he says , ‘ I must give over this life ’ , you know he wo n't . |
| 23 | Is that you you must give in our tender documents , we must tell the contractor what he has to allow for in his price . |
| 24 | Given the difficulty of constructing international institutions ex nihilo I believe that this means British socialists must give more serious attention to the opportunities at EEC level . |
| 25 | The management executive must give more thought to the development of improved methods of applying Read codes and the budgetary implications of this . |
| 26 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |
| 27 | The urchin simply said he had a message which he must give only to you . ’ |
| 28 | In and out of season he must give off these sparks of personal brightness , to dazzle as he had dazzled James of Lusignan , King of Cyprus , with his ‘ singular courtesy and noblesse ’ when he was governor of Bordeaux . |
| 29 | If partner " A " has an obligation to give partner " B " armshells ( mwali ) then partner " B " must give back necklaces ( soulaya , bagi ) and , vice versa , " A " can never give back necklaces to " B " , nor can " B " ever give armshells to " A " . |
| 30 | But the declaration spoke of ‘ taking into account current economic and social conditions ’ , a clause that should give both the president and the government free rein . |