Example sentences of "[noun] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a frightening experience keeping balance |
| 2 | In place of the comfortable doctrine of sedimentation keeping pace with subsidence , we were now faced with the notion of empty troughs forming in the sea floor , with only occasional rushes of sediment to fill them . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , many museums experience difficulty keeping pace with such large-scale demands for recording and , latterly and increasingly , retrieval of this information . |
| 4 | He had difficulty keeping track of all his legs . |
| 5 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 6 | There she saw the princess , walking outside the ruined castle with all the animals keeping guard over her . |
| 7 | FRED PORITT BATTING AND GRENVILLE DINSDALE KEEPING WICKET ( Page 47 ) |
| 8 | BELOW Clearing the modern deposits from an archaeological site is often done using a machine , with an archaeologist keeping watch in case anything is uncovered by the machine . |
| 9 | And of the party in the Fifties : ‘ the Great Debate in British socialism has so far consisted in one side talking nonsense and the other side keeping mum . ’ |
| 10 | Contrasts in the life of colonial New England are shown in the Puritan Keeping Room of the 1680s and the cosy tavern kitchen of the 1770s with its beehive oven and well protected bar , in the blue-green panelled living room from Lee , New Hampshire , and the mid-eighteenth-century parlor of Captain Perley , who led his Minute Men at the battle of Bunker Hill . |
| 11 | AZZA KEEPS JOB |
| 12 | Department keeps pace with rapid changes |
| 13 | Waging war on weeds Geoff Hamilton finds that close planting beats the weeds , and a spot of pond maintenance keeps nature 's own living pest controllers happy in the organic gardens at Barnsdale . |
| 14 | Partnership to keep town green |
| 15 | Because this guitar is so strummable , but a pig to keep level , I 'm tempted to suggest that maybe Paul Chandler should make another instrument with the same hardware , neck dimensions and action , but with a body that better counteracts the imbalance . |
| 16 | They are actually covers to keep light off hyacinth bulbs ! |
| 17 | COUNCIL officers are taking action to keep noise down at a ‘ rave ’ concert tomorrow . |
| 18 | They proved much easier to collect than direct taxes and made it possible for government revenue to keep pace with the swift rise in production . |
| 19 | Mackie came through from her side to keep company with Dee-Dee , saying Perkin had gone to Newbury to collect some supplies , and presently the two women went out to lunch together , leaving me alone in the great sprawling house . |
| 20 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 21 | Others use stitching and padding in a variety of ways to create ventilation channels to keep air flowing over at least some of the back in order to limit the amount of sweat produced . |
| 22 | Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989 . |
| 23 | Still , there was safety in numbers , even sparse ones , so she skipped smartly across the street , shortening her stride to keep pace with the woman 's slower one . |
| 24 | ‘ It sounds terrible , but we have to go cap in hand begging for funds to keep solvent . |
| 25 | All day long you will work and you will slave , Allowing wheelchairs to go where you pave , Just look at the kids to keep tiredness at bay , Because for them you are making it a better day . |
| 26 | As the wife of the civic leader , Mrs Murphy had to do considerable entertaining in generous western style , but in this field she made no attempt to keep pace with Olga Stych or Donna Frizzell ; she knew when she was beaten . |
| 27 | Anonymity is not used to neutralize the moral responsibility respondents would otherwise have for their actions and opinions , but is our attempt to keep faith with the trust we earned . |
| 28 | Security at the site was heavy in an attempt to keep trouble at bay . |
| 29 | Leeds , bereft of professional soccer despite the Lord Mayor 's gallant attempt to keep City a going concern outside the League , became the focus of attention of managers everywhere . |
| 30 | In an attempt to keep labour costs to a minimum none of the organizations wanted to employ any more labour than was absolutely necessary . |