Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to keep [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has gone to Brussels for a lone-fight against other European Countries to keep passport checks in a border-free Europe .
2 AZERBAIJAN : The Christian Armenians are fighting Muslim Azerbaijanis to keep control of the Nagorno Karabakh hills .
3 Think about any new routines you wish to establish from the beginning , such as a day for a new recipe each week , new shopping routines , different meal times , or restricted locations to keep food in the house .
4 ‘ I would not rule anything out , not even sleeping policemen to keep traffic speeds down .
5 Guy Sterne was just the kind of man to treat women as objects for sexual gratification , and as obliging servants to keep house and serve his meals …
6 Be patient and use intensive conditioners to keep hair healthy .
7 ( Much later , he discovered that PROMIS had been developed for the US Department of Justice by Inslaw , Inc. of Washington , D.C. , as an information system for law-enforcement agencies and government prosecutors with heavy workloads to keep track of their cases .
8 There is no obligation on general practitioners to keep age/sex registers of their patients , a device which lays the foundation for more effective preventive health care of elderly people .
9 We had dried fruit and salted meat , and big pots to keep water in .
10 Buy magic items to keep panic in check if you can .
11 Even in a country like India , where there is skilled manpower , it has not been easy to install enough new factories to keep pace with growing demand .
12 Seton wasted no time in setting his men , and many of the citizens , to work of another kind , particularly digging new ditches to keep artillery at a distance .
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