Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to keep [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man in charge of road mending in one county says they have n't got the money to keep up with repairs . |
| 2 | The age of the children , their number , the ability of the wife to earn a second income at home , whilst the elder children helped run the boat , the responsibility for dependent relatives , the possibility of sharing a house : such factors governed the decision to keep up a home on the land . |
| 3 | Sling a piece of garden netting across the pond to keep out leaves which will sour the water . |
| 4 | The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting his park gate … |
| 5 | Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment . |
| 6 | Mr Major — salary £76,234 — hopes that with Ministers taking a lead in the bid to keep down wages the nation can be persuaded to swallow the bitter pill . |
| 7 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 8 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |
| 9 | In addition , the desire to keep up a respectable level of income or the desire of the woman to have a job or career , may lead to the woman going to work . |
| 10 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 11 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 12 | Further concern was generated by the failure to keep up with major orders secured by the consortium due to production difficulties . |
| 13 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 14 | There was , of course , first and absolutely foremost , the need to keep on jumping , and to do so at the very highest level ; a need which Fräulein Silber emphasised repeatedly . |
| 15 | It is a good idea to lay 500 gauge polythene over the foundation to keep back any rising damp . |
| 16 | Or should it seek weaker competitors or new entrants who are often more accommodating to local policy , but may lack the resources to keep up with the pace of change ? |
| 17 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 18 | ‘ All I would say is that he deserves the chance to keep on going and defend his title . ’ |
| 19 | For the use of women staff , wooden stools were provided on the platforms and canvas screens fixed against the stairs to keep out draughts . |
| 20 | Ellie sat in the half-light of their neighbour 's drawing room , the dark curtains pulled some of the way across the windows to keep out the sunlight . |
| 21 | With both hands he smoothed and adjusted the long sausage-roll of cloth that hugged the bottom of the door to keep out those icy draughts ever present in the rest of the house . |
| 22 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 23 | All ten of us crammed onto the porch to keep out of the wet grass and we slept in a tangle of sleeping bags , packs and machine guns . |
| 24 | All she could do was keep him at arm 's length — and pray for the strength to keep on doing it till they were released from their snowy prison . |
| 25 | It is the Norah Batty syndrome , if I may be sexist , where far from losing a million people off the register as happened during the last census because of the poll tax , in the next census men will be sent to the shed at the bottom of the garden to keep out of the way . |
| 26 | Go easy on the women , Henry had said ; whereas what he should have said was , ‘ Tell the women to keep off you . ’ |
| 27 | The big mass up front guarantees initial understeer and the ample power to the back promises the balancing availability of power oversteer. it 's very chuckable , but the harsh ride makes it sensitive to bumps and changes of surface in mid bend , and you have to be quick with the wheel-twirling to keep up on slippery surfaces . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most important is stamina as this provides the staying power and the ability to keep on going without feeling you 're going to collapse . |
| 29 | Perhaps nets were hung over windows and doorways in the temples to keep out birds , and possibly dragon-flies and locusts . |
| 30 | On the Medway estuary in Kent , raised banks built by the Romans to keep out the sea lasted substantially until the eighteenth century , and the extent of Roman reclamation appears to have been formidable . |