Example sentences of "[vb -s] to keep [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the user wants to keep the appliance switched on , he touches it to trigger the sensor and reset the timer . |
| 2 | cos wants to keep the door open |
| 3 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 5 | The fact is that Labour wants to keep the poll tax so that it can attack us with it . |
| 6 | If an investor wants to keep the shares acquired under the transaction in question but to recover the difference in value between the shares and the price paid , the remedy to achieve this is not , in my judgment , a restitutionary one but is compensatory and can not be obtained under subsection ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | This is the inevitable duty of a Prime Minister or Leader of a Party who wants to keep the team together , having regard to the major objectives of the Party . |
| 8 | The stable wants to keep the gallops soft . |
| 9 | Kevin Doyle of Caledonian Holdings [ the owners ] wants to keep the site in good order and not have it used as a car park as at present . |
| 10 | Kevin Doyle of Caledonian Holdings ( the owners ) wants to keep the site in good order and not have it used as a car park as at present . |
| 11 | One factor that impedes that aim is the Hawaiian hunting lobby , which wants to keep the pigs as game animals and centrepieces of those Hawaiian barbecues , luaus . |
| 12 | He just wants to keep the goat tethered — ; here , where he can see it . |
| 13 | It is n't just football that needs to keep an eye on its spectators . |
| 14 | One should not expect her to resort to military force ‘ whenever she can get away with it ’ : if nothing else , she needs to keep the world 's ‘ useful idiots ’ in business . |
| 15 | 3 Every member of the group has to keep a diary in which they describe their experiences and how they feel about them . |
| 16 | Sometimes in truth they do not exist : not all human behaviour is addictive in nature and one has to keep a sense of balance . |
| 17 | The Map Library 's purchasing policy has to keep a balance between the acquisition of early maps and atlases of Scottish interest and association , and the need to provide an up-to-date collection of maps , atlases and reference works relating to all aspects of cartography and all parts of the world . |
| 18 | It also has to keep the mass of peasant farmers and unskilled workers passive so that bourgeois interests as a whole are protected . |
| 19 | To retain tax relief the investor has to keep the BES shares for a minimum of five years . |
| 20 | One has to keep the investigation of the fundamental laws of science and the study of human behavior in separate compartments . |
| 21 | Most importantly , the airport has to keep the runways open at all time . |
| 22 | But Germany must be aware that it has to keep the balance in Europe , ’ Mr Mitterrand said following talks with Mr Hans Modrow , the East German Prime Minister . |
| 23 | He has to keep an eye on his own kind as well as anybody else . |
| 24 | Hot on Rigby 's heels is Little Budworth 's Mike Barber who in turn has to keep an eye on Dingle 's Tony Collins , just a few points behind . |
| 25 | Marxist Mr Gill also plans to keep a £46,000 pension boost and wo n't hand over £14,000 for tax dues on his union car . |
| 26 | This suffices to keep the arms race a stable outcome , in the absence of mechanisms for making agreements between the players that are seen as absolutely binding and enforceable ( mechanisms that seem conspicuous by their absence in real life ) . |
| 27 | It could be said that the We/ Us/Our form is rather a mode of self-description when the poet wishes to present his beloved and himself to the world ( as shown by Donne in the Songs and Sonnets ) , and that Shakespeare prefers to keep the relationship on an interpersonal level . |
| 28 | Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about . |
| 29 | He loves opera , in that the long rehearsal span and run of performances allows him ‘ to get the psychology out of the way in the first few days ’ — clearly , he worries a great deal about the mental interchange with his workforce — but he intends to keep a balance with concert work . |
| 30 | The collection was started in 1989 when SCOTBIS opened , and the Library intends to keep a maximum of 5 years of reports from each company on the open shelves . |