Example sentences of "give [adv] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ship does not give away its own position since the ESM is completely ‘ passive ’ . |
| 2 | And even then her flesh would not give up its alien growth without a struggle . |
| 3 | He denied suggestions that Hewlett-Packard might give up its Precision Architecture RISC architecture for the IBM-Apple Computer Inc-Motorola Inc PowerPC , but said the two firms are ‘ technically close ’ , and that Hewlett-Packard is ‘ flexible ’ . |
| 4 | He denied rumours that HP might give up its PA RISC architecture for the IBM/Motorola Inc PowerPC , but said the two firms are ‘ technically close ’ , and that HP is ‘ flexible . ’ |
| 5 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
| 6 | It 's the idea that you ca n't have socialism in one country , it has to be international it 's the idea that it has to be based on the working class because the working class is the agent of socialism and it has to be by revolution because the ruling class wo n't give up its power and wealth voluntarily . |
| 7 | The voters had pronounced and the newer , more radical leaders considered that the House should then give up its extensive powers ; the measures endorsed by a majority at the polls should be passed with reasonable rapidity . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is most unlikely that Israel will give up its nuclear capability in the foreseeable future , so long as it foresees a threat to its land from its neighbour . |
| 9 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 10 | The conference recommended , among other things , that the party give up its leading role in society ; that the President be elected through universal suffrage for a maximum of two terms ; that power be shared with the Prime Minister ; that workers and the press have freedom of expression ; and that the privatization of nationalized companies be speeded up . |
| 11 | He suggested that Israel give up its nuclear weapons and submit , with its neighbours , to international inspection to keep the region nuclear-free . |
| 12 | Jaguar retreated 32p to 653p with stories flowing that Ford had given up its pursuit and planned to buy 50 per cent of the Swedish Saab group . |
| 13 | Despite Saddam 's co-operation on the nuclear issue , there is no sign that Iraq has given up its policy of testing the West 's determination to enforce the UN 's ceasefire terms . |
| 14 | That includes the Open Software Foundation , which , having given up its board seat at the beginning of this year , currently has no formal relationship with X/Open , even though the standards body has endorsed its Distributed Computing Environment technology . |
| 15 | It reigned almost without limit in primitive times when property was still very scanty , and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal , anal form … . |
| 16 | The rack shelving , together with its load of books and ornaments , had finally given up its unequal struggle with the force of gravity . |
| 17 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 18 | The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations . |
| 19 | Fire has to consume to give off its light . |
| 20 | Half felt the error was so common that they voted to give up its etymological origin — ‘ to become public ’ . |
| 21 | Moses is told by God to take his rod and he and Aaron are to address the rock , commanding it to give up its water . |
| 22 | There are the good days when things work out well and the whole world seems sunny , and the bad days when a depressing bug refuses to give up its secrets . |
| 23 | When Raybestos decided towards the end of August 1976 to give up its designs on the Knockanemore dump , Michael Harrington of the IDA undertook a search for an alternative dumping site for Raybestos 's waste . |
| 24 | Their entitlement under the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPs ) will be curtailed , though public pressure compelled the government to give up its intention to discard the scheme in favour of private pensions . |
| 25 | If North Korea is looking for a way out of its nuclear predicament , and a way back into the NPT , China could offer to do what America once did for Taiwan : persuade it to give up its nuclear moonlighting , and take charge of any offending materials and bomb bits . |
| 26 | Untreated maize is reluctant to give up its B vitamins , particularly its niacin . |
| 27 | Deploying forces in America in this way was more ambitious than anything the monarchy had done , and the Republic 's success in winning the obedience of the colonies and forcing the small royalist fleet to give up its privateering activities showed how much more effective England 's power had become . |
| 28 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 29 | The USA , Baker said , would " do its utmost " to persuade North Korea to give up its weapons programme . |
| 30 | However , the WPA was persuaded to give up its seat to the PPP , as did the TUF ; in return the PPP , which as the majority party had the constitutional right to determine the two NCLDO seats , allocated one to itself and the other to the WPA ; the final distribution of Assembly seats was PPP 35 , PNC 27 , WPA 2 , TUF 1 . |