Example sentences of "[vb pp] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 2 | ‘ They stagecoaches ai n't never to be trusted to keep time ! |
| 3 | On Sept. 20 , 1989 , Pierre Bérégovoy , Minister of State for Economy , Finance and Budget , announced a 1990 budget designed to keep inflation down while sustaining economic growth . |
| 4 | These events make it likely that the mobilization of troops on the western borders was designed to keep order among the empire 's non-Russians rather than to prepare the ground for an invasion of central Europe . |
| 5 | At one time , two-pipe house drainage systems were designed to keep waste water and soil water completely separate until they entered the underground drains and to prevent ‘ drain air ’ entering the house : in Victorian times this was thought to be responsible for all manner of ills . |
| 6 | Radiant Barrier : A layer of reflective material sewn in with the filling of the bag , designed to keep heat in and cold out . |
| 7 | Survey methodology is a highly developed technique for obtaining a representative sample of opinions and attitudes from an enumerated population , but the interactive technique used in such surveys is designed to keep rapport at a moderate level and filter out all information that can not be coded in the scheme developed . |
| 8 | Measures of contribution to government revenue could not be matched , as in Sierra Leone 's petroleum SOE , with price controls designed to keep energy prices low ( World Bank Staff , 1989 : p. 225 ) . |
| 9 | Fitness Mate is designed to keep track of several athletes participating in many sports , tracking their achievements in each . |
| 10 | There is always so much to do around the boat in the way of maintenance , cleaning , taking stores , fuelling or just shopping for domestic needs that strict self discipline must be imposed to keep revenue work in the forefront . |
| 11 | Rangers manager Walter Smith has decided to keep faith with goalkeeper Ally Maxwell for tomorrow 's Premier league game at Tynecastle . |
| 12 | There are two points here : the first is that no matter how substantial is one 's background in user education , advice can become steadily less relevant with the passage of time unless a determined effort is made to keep contact with the users to be instructed ; ie to continue to instruct the user personally . |
| 13 | Economic growth in 1990 was projected to reach 5 per cent , he said , and efforts would be made to keep inflation below 60 per cent . |
| 14 | It is to the school 's credit that such a successful attempt was made to keep life as normal as possible . |
| 15 | Personal relations amongst officials on both bodies remained cordial , and as much as possible was done to keep collaboration alive without breaching the letter of Congress 's legislation . |
| 16 | What can be done to keep weight down ? |
| 17 | Regulators have struggled to keep pace , assuming that they should somehow take account of all the risks assumed by banks , no matter how bulky their rulebooks become . |
| 18 | Pensions and benefits had not risen to keep pace with the rate of inflation , especially in the 1970s . |
| 19 | The architect was instructed to keep ornamentation to a minimum , but the Victorian 's notion of minimal detail would be considerable elaboration to any other age . |
| 20 | The Royal Navy 's base in Portsmouth , and a cluster of high-tech defence firms , had helped keep south Hampshire prosperous . |
| 21 | DUNHILL 's string of luxury brands , ranging from Montblanc pens and top tailor Hackett , to French clothes and perfume houses , Chloe and Karl Lagerfeld , helped keep consumer blues at bay in the first half to end-September . |
| 22 | Although the demand for rabbit meat has shown some improvement , the general attitude of the consumer has helped to keep demand at a much lower level than previously . |
| 23 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 24 | so you 've got to keep hold of that |
| 25 | I 've got to keep note of what I 'm doing here . |
| 26 | I was told to keep mum about it . ’ |
| 27 | Why Michael Atherton was not immediately drafted in when the experience of Gooch was lost before the start , with Stewart being told to keep wicket as originally planned , remains one of the mysteries of the tour — and as crass a selection error as leaving out Phil Tufnell from the first Test at Calcutta . |
| 28 | If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics , he could prove an inspired choice . |
| 29 | After that he no longer bothered to keep count . |
| 30 | This table is used to keep track of entries discarded by lexicographers . |