Example sentences of "[be] kept at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’ |
| 2 | Subject to any medical recommendations , inmates were to be kept at work according to their capacity and should not receive any remuneration for their labour . |
| 3 | To save industrial costs surplus labour would be relocated , predominantly to the agricultural sector ; if this was not possible people would be kept at work but on 60 per cent of their former salary . |
| 4 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 5 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |
| 6 | However , Daphne told me that the tall spikes of flowers , resembling yellow lupins , last better if stem-rotting bacteria can be kept at bay . |
| 7 | In this way boredom would be kept at bay ; and universities might have some notion of the especial talents of some of their candidates . |
| 8 | The Traditional ‘ Gods ’ of Antiquity Must Be Kept at Bay |
| 9 | Velvet can be kept at bay by good husbandry . |
| 10 | How much longer can the money men be kept at bay ? |
| 11 | That way Eleanor would be kept at bay and , after all , the chance of anyone else looking him up was extremely remote . |
| 12 | The United States wished to secure a transitional period in which limited American military and economic aid would be extended to south Korea in the hope that the communists would be kept at bay , at least for a decent interval . |
| 13 | From being the Mecca of young Chinese who wished to ‘ awaken ’ their nation , Japan had , in little more than two decades , become an aggressor to be kept at bay . |
| 14 | Even if the Hungarians or the Turks could be kept at bay , there was also the threat of piracy to be met . |
| 15 | One 's natural sense of inadequacy could be kept at bay only by pious acts of repeated successfulness . |
| 16 | I thought I was too clever to be kept at bay by his all-pals-together manliness , but I was wrong , Harry , so wrong it 's almost laughable . ’ |
| 17 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 18 | Their disruptive behaviour was proving a headache to Mr Jones until he discovered the elephants could be kept at bay if he fed them with their favourite fruit pears . |
| 19 | Following a stroke , the patient may be kept at home , rather than being admitted to hospital . |
| 20 | Thousands of schoolchildren will be kept at home tomorrow because of a strike by five hundred teachers . |
| 21 | A new canvass system was introduced in 1911 so that all county constituencies would operate the same system and so that duplicate records could be kept at area level . |
| 22 | In 2 days they will have hatched and can be transferred to the aquarium ( containing a salt solution ) where they can be kept at room temperature like water-fleas . |
| 23 | The relevant cards could then be kept at hand as each section was developed . |
| 24 | We will also need to restore an honest state pension fund that can be kept at arm 's length from the rip-offs of future Conservative Governments if necessary . |
| 25 | But he had to be kept at arm 's length , because of Victoria , and because of the other three nurses . |
| 26 | All were therefore being kept at home at a cost below that of institutional care . |
| 27 | A delicate balance is kept in the microbiological eco-system of the vagina in health , with the lactobacillus being the predominant organism , and others being kept at bay by the very acid environment that this bacterium produces . |
| 28 | Previously , visitors to HQ , including myself , had commented on the rather unwelcoming aspect of the reception/enquiries area and the feeling of being kept at bay from ‘ their ’ society . |
| 29 | The animal is being kept at quarantine kennels after being siezed at Newport docks . |
| 30 | An increasing number of official documents are being kept at Record Offices . |