Example sentences of "[verb] keep the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wirbel keeping the workshop air clean |
| 2 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Melia concluded , ‘ We have solid cost and asset management , and will continue to emphasise keeping the business lean , focused and financially strong , ’ and noted that the company was due to launch those new machines and price cuts ( CI No 2,152 ) , late yesterday . |
| 4 | Did you enjoy keeping the house tidy then , and not now ? ’ |
| 5 | The planning principles adopted included keeping the common circulation areas and services central — all-internal kitchens and bathrooms back on to the spinal corridor which occupies the central strip of the former nave space ( Fig 45 ) . |
| 6 | Under the new council tax announced in 1991 ( DoE , 1991 ) the Conservative government proposed keeping the power to limit councils ' right to cap the tax . |
| 7 | Several who tried keeping the cats reported delightedly that this was the case . |
| 8 | It is difficult to choose a medium sized fish which is compatible with smaller fish , but why not consider keeping the Striped Anostomus , Anostomus anostomus ? |
| 9 | She says they use a variety of excuses — most of which involve keeping the victim talking at the door . |
| 10 | Treatments would include keeping the area clean and dry , moisturisers such as E45 cream can ease off drying and scaling . |
| 11 | In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power . |
| 12 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 13 | The attempts failed , but they helped keep the issue of electoral reform on the agenda of political debate . |
| 14 | If the user wants to keep the appliance switched on , he touches it to trigger the sensor and reset the timer . |
| 15 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 16 | This is the inevitable duty of a Prime Minister or Leader of a Party who wants to keep the team together , having regard to the major objectives of the Party . |
| 17 | If an investor wants to keep the shares acquired under the transaction in question but to recover the difference in value between the shares and the price paid , the remedy to achieve this is not , in my judgment , a restitutionary one but is compensatory and can not be obtained under subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 18 | If Simon wants to keep the Human League , he said , then he should keep them . |
| 19 | One factor that impedes that aim is the Hawaiian hunting lobby , which wants to keep the pigs as game animals and centrepieces of those Hawaiian barbecues , luaus . |
| 20 | Kevin Doyle of Caledonian Holdings [ the owners ] wants to keep the site in good order and not have it used as a car park as at present . |
| 21 | He just wants to keep the goat tethered — ; here , where he can see it . |
| 22 | Kevin Doyle of Caledonian Holdings ( the owners ) wants to keep the site in good order and not have it used as a car park as at present . |
| 23 | The fact is that Labour wants to keep the poll tax so that it can attack us with it . |
| 24 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 25 | The regime of course wants to keep the old order the A N C and freedom-loving people want a new order and a quick change but how do you mo move to that situation when you also have the right wing and the security forces and elsewhere not wanting change ? |
| 26 | cos wants to keep the door open |
| 27 | The stable wants to keep the gallops soft . |
| 28 | Once dug and left to dry , potatoes can be sorted and stored in teachests , thick paper sacks or shallow boxes covered with sacking to keep the light from turning them green . |
| 29 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , promised to keep the Lebanon hostages ‘ high on the public agenda ’ after attending a memorial service for the mother of the missing British journalist John McCarthy . |
| 30 | Matata slept outside and promised to keep the fire burning ; I hoped he was a light sleeper . |