Example sentences of "[noun sg] or keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 2 | Besides anchorites who were physically enclosed , there were also those who led eremitical lives of greater physical mobility , preaching and teaching , sometimes performing labouring tasks like road-mending or keeping care of bridges , sometimes living more haphazardly off the charity of others . |
| 3 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 4 | This is a tribute to Labour 's smooth campaigning , in which the unacceptable faces of socialism have been either wreathed in benevolence or kept off the screen altogether . |
| 5 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 6 | That the raiseing or keeping a Standing Army within the Kingdom in time of Peace unlesse it be with consent of Parliament is against Law . |
| 7 | When you are trying to lose weight or to keep your weight down , it sometimes seems like needless fuss making a ‘ proper cooked lunch ’ . |
| 8 | It is also important to determine which activities and functions should be housed in the new and old locations especially if the organisation plans to carry out either a phased move or to keep a small presence in the old site after the main move has taken place . |
| 9 | Perhaps if it 's a bad case the patient has to wear a special boot or keep the leg held straight with iron braces . ’ |
| 10 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman well knows that there has been a dramatic increase in national health service spending on any measure one cares to take , far and above the amount necessary either to keep pace with the general level of inflation or to keep pace with the level of inflation in medical costs . |
| 12 | For instance , pupils might be asked to decide whether an object belonged to a wealthy or a poor person , whether it was an everyday object or kept for special occasions . |
| 13 | not easy playing a puppet or keeping a straight face . |
| 14 | However the Revenue will not seek to apply s 245 where changes are attributable to increased efficiency or to keep pace with developing technology . |
| 15 | She came and went while he was out , tidying up , laying the table for his evening meal , and no doubt reading his letters and looking in his drawers to see if he had a rupture belt or kept a stock of contraceptives . |
| 16 | It may help your child to hold on to memories of the past and to begin to think about changes in the future by painting pictures , making a tape recording or keeping a scrapbook of family events . |
| 17 | As a design element , hedges can lead or intervene as well as define , diverting attention from an obvious path or keeping secret areas from immediate view . |
| 18 | In the first three sentences , be obviously has its " activity " sense and one gets the impression of continuous efforts of the subject in order to make himself behave in a calculating manner , to make his followers act in an orderly way or to keep someone quiet . |
| 19 | Do you want them to do a menu rotation or keep making them up every week ? |
| 20 | Within many sites , however , there are ranges of buildings which often occupy enclosed strips of land not unlike medieval crofts , suggesting that some people , craftsmen included , were raising their own produce or keeping their own pigs and fowl . |
| 21 | What are the others keeping your arm or keeping your arms crossed , or in a fig leaf position . |
| 22 | It has two wheels instead on one , this means that you do n't have to take any of the weight of the load or keep the cart balanced , so loads can easily be tipped . |