Example sentences of "that giving [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one pretends that giving up smoking is easy . |
| 2 | Yet in a former Durham pit village , although all had either been made redundant or been forced out of work by ill-health , a group of miners were so sustained by the community network of neighbours and relatives that giving up work seemed a positive blessing . |
| 3 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 4 | What one can be absolutely sure about is that giving up does the other side 's work for them , and ruins all your own possible futures and other people 's as well . |
| 5 | The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits . |
| 6 | My husband actually said to me that giving up smoking was easy because he 's done it plenty of times . |
| 7 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 8 | The UK , in particular , is fundamentally opposed to the idea of compulsory employee participation , believing that this is an area best left to individual company policy and fearing that giving in on the issue in this context could lead to similar measures becoming a compulsory feature of EC company law . |
| 9 | She could n't be at all sure that giving in to such an impulse would have the desired effect . |