Example sentences of "of keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their partnership has yielded 14 goals so far and looks capable of keeping Villa in the forefront of the Premier Division title race . |
| 2 | Their partnership has yielded 14 goals so far and looks capable of keeping Villa in the forefront of the Premier Division title race . |
| 3 | So it was a matter of keeping calm , collective and getting burnt . |
| 4 | Scattered all over his territories were 738,000 Japanese ; in theory a defeated army but in most cases still armed and either potentially dangerous or the only organized force capable of keeping chaos at bay . |
| 5 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 6 | THE DEPARTMENT of Transport ( DoT ) has sacked the county council in charge of keeping Spaghetti Junction in good repair . |
| 7 | MARK BAILEY accentuates the positive , and explains how to overcome the negatives of keeping synspilum — a real tank-buster of a cichlid . |
| 8 | But the utilitarian function of keeping church walls dry hardly accounts for the occasionally bizarre juxtaposition of the sacred and profane : Christ and the saints among the foully contorted and pagan fertility symbols , the Virgin Mary elbowed by giants ( usually depicted with both hands pulling back fierce lips ) . |
| 9 | Pushing on with his plans is , therefore , his best means of keeping faith with them ; it is also the only sure way of establishing just what Beijing is prepared to do . |
| 10 | Mulching has the added benefit of keeping moisture in the soil during dry weather , when clay is liable to dry out and crack . |
| 11 | As for the comment you attributed to me , that Britain has a budding romance with pressurised water reactor , I have always been an advocate of keeping government out of the bedroom and would , therefore , never have allowed such a comment to pass From my lips . |
| 12 | Instead of keeping watch on the street , he was giving directions to a young woman tourist . |
| 13 | He stressed that anyone who is interested must have a commitment to the police force and ‘ the idea of keeping law and order ’ . |
| 14 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 15 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 16 | Nevertheless in the long term , if the policy is pursued rigorously enough , many economists argue that it is the most effective way of keeping inflation under control . |
| 17 | The NIESR warns that this means the Government 's target of keeping inflation between 1 and 4 per cent ‘ is clearly at risk ’ . |
| 18 | FRANCE last week took another step away from its tradition of keeping money in old socks under the mattress . |
| 19 | The project will use a variant of the National Institute model to design policy rules involving the active use of tax rates , interest rates and foreign exchange intervention with the aim of keeping money national income on a steady path , while at the same time ensuring adequate investment takes place and stabilising the exchange rate . |
| 20 | In theory it was a very simple way of keeping money supply within limits : within a corset . |
| 21 | They have the problem of learning the basic skills of teaching , of keeping order , of creating varied and interesting lessons , of the kind of language that is suitable to different ages and levels of achievement , of pacing and of developing the vital intuitive sense of how much you can get done in forty or seventy minutes . |
| 22 | A journalist , for example , or a first aid attendant , or a person acting as an ‘ observer ’ for an organisation such as the N.C.C.L. does not really take part in the event itself , although he may occasionally make the police task of keeping order more difficult . |
| 23 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 24 | The person appointed having the responsibility of keeping check on newsworthy events within the school and checking that the press are informed . |
| 25 | Like many issues which determine the course of history , the challenges of keeping pace in strategic competition , holding down grain imports , maintaining energy production and earning a hard currency income may be decided at the margin . |
| 26 | The effectiveness of retirement pension schemes is greatly threatened by increasing longevity , the problem of keeping pace with the cost of living in an inflationary economic situation , and the problem of rising standards of living which bring new affluence and expectations . |
| 27 | Project 2000 argued the necessity for change as much in terms of keeping pace with service needs and professional nursing developments as tackling the deficiencies of existing nurse training and the challenges posed to recruitment by demographic trends . |
| 28 | Is that the Prime Minister 's way of keeping waiting lists low ? |
| 29 | Chastity is the virtue either of keeping sex for marriage or of abstaining from sex altogether . |
| 30 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |