Example sentences of "[adv] keep [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic principle of these vast Swedish furnishing stores is to provide self-assembly furniture in self-service flat packs , thereby keeping prices to the absolute minimum . |
| 2 | Recently he had been intrigued by a paper proposing the development of an atomic weapon designed to kill people through massive exposure to radioactive fallout , but with a limited blast capability , thereby keeping buildings relatively intact — the Neutron Bomb . |
| 3 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 4 | Whatever the rhetoric behind these sentiments , they reflected precepts of duty and service , and were antipathetic to notions of merely keeping boys off the streets . |
| 5 | In the absence of a ready-made framework in Scotland , the firm looked elsewhere to the English Law Society 's Continuing Professional Development scheme , launched last year and aimed at not only keeping solicitors up to date with the law but to develop management and other professional skills and to enhance career development . |
| 6 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 7 | But the Government clause which says Caldaire can only keep 35pc of any purchase price above £1.3m makes a move virtually impossible . |
| 8 | Maggie would only keep knives there . |
| 9 | We can better keep care of Denbigh and Mold and Flint from there , and I must see to it that Ruthyn is properly garrisoned , now that Grey 's gone . |
| 10 | What apparently keeps Dr George Steiner awake at nights is puzzlement over why the world should need 19,200 different species of dung beetle . |
| 11 | It restricts the mobility of workers and so keeps unemployment higher than it need be : people who own their homes are less willing to move to another area to find a job . |
| 12 | It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector , seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control . |
| 13 | Modern exponents of this ideal include Anne Faraday and Paul Garfield , whose books encourage the reader not only to keep dream diaries but to attempt to alter their dreams . |
| 14 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 15 | It was bad enough that she should have to accept Ian 's help with farm work , but that was necessary , if only to keep Joanna happy . |
| 16 | And as we have already noted , many male workers , especially in " skilled " occupations , were committed to the notion of a male " family wage " high enough to keep wife and children . |
| 17 | They were eminently suited to the work and knew their ship and its equipment well enough to keep things going which also suited the administration at Headquarters . |
| 18 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 19 | This is the question in all markets : whether the cake as a whole will grow fast enough to keep London 's absolute volume of business growing . |
| 20 | This system of local government had much fine work to its credit but it was generally accepted that its structure had not changed enough to keep pace with the changing social pattern of travel to work , shopping and holiday areas . |
| 21 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 22 | Your pool will be big enough to keep Koi , and given the right conditions , there is no reason why they should not breed . |
| 23 | But a jackpot of £2,350,000 was not enough to keep Kirkley in a job . |
| 24 | But both polar regions support vegetation and land fauna that are well adapted to their environments ( Chapter 6 ) and varied enough to keep generations of ecologists interested in them . |
| 25 | Although some popular sentiment may go Mr Hussein 's way , both regimes are efficiently repressive enough to keep public opinion buttoned up . |
| 26 | This was n't the sort of international work done in the European branch of security services , which is known as Section A. But it was glamorous enough to keep Dirk Coetzee happy for a while . |
| 27 | By last Tuesday night , the Conservative chairman , Chris Patten , presented to the Prime Minister the worst case envisaged by party researchers : 305 seats held , enough to keep power in a hung parliament . |
| 28 | We must all fight together to keep thet |
| 29 | There was a long table of scrubbed pine with a tablecloth ( splashed with russet chrysanthemums , the sort of tablecloth you see through the windows of other people 's houses as you walk by at teatime ) folded back to cover crockery set out ready for breakfast , perhaps to keep mice from dirtying the cups . |
| 30 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |