Example sentences of "[adv] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector , seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 10 | Although some popular sentiment may go Mr Hussein 's way , both regimes are efficiently repressive enough to keep public opinion buttoned up . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We must all fight together to keep thet |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Spray roses in pots with water daily to keep humidity up ; watch out for greenfly and other pests . |
| 15 | William walked swiftly to keep stride with Hari . |
| 16 | Indeed good managers not only keep work stress levels down for their staff but can also be the first check point for employee stress . |
| 17 | Perhaps that will be a thought for people who foolishly keep money under the mattress or in a jam jar . |
| 18 | Another cut in short-term interest rates , by contrast , would provoke new jitters about inflation and so keep bond yields high . |
| 19 | After the Falklands war , one could observe what great efforts relatives of soldiers and sailors killed there were prepared to make in order to visit their graves , and so keep memory alive . |
| 20 | McFarlane , former boss , eagerly kept contact with the cause on his home computer , aching to be part of it again : North , in reply , urged him to ‘ keep the faith ’ . |
| 21 | I 'm amazed that this country appears so stable as inflation , they say , has gone up 250% ( ! ) in the last 3 years and wages have only kept pace with about half of that , and only yesterday a newspaper posted on the canteen wall announced a massive corruption deal whereby the country 's leaders made 81 billion cruzeiros out of currency exchange . |
| 22 | The sheer variety of current systems is phenomenal and it is a full time job just keeping pace with developments . |
| 23 | I tell you when I was in here it was just keeping calm . |
| 24 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |
| 25 | Is n't it , well I mean , is n't it more about just keeping production up ? |
| 26 | Inside , I followed him , easily keeping pace with his slow step . |
| 27 | Even if the adventurers decide to move , the mist moves with them , easily keeping pace with them and — most worryingly of all — moving against any prevailing breeze . |
| 28 | ‘ Till then , you 'd best keep y'mouth shut an ’ think o' how y'gonna answer charges o' drugs runnin' , kidnappin' , unlawful imprisonment an' aggravated assault … maybe even murder ! ’ |
| 29 | The birthrate could only just keep pace . |
| 30 | You can of course move the point cam furthest away from the carriage , because the carriage just keeps pattern knitting until it reaches it , it does n't need to calculate which stitch of the pattern to stop it . |