Example sentences of "not keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katharine was tempted to use too much inside rein to create the bend , and was therefore losing Benji 's shoulder by not keeping hold of the outside rein . |
| 2 | Many statutory services are not keeping pace with demographic change . |
| 3 | In some cases , a low income is not keeping pace with the rising cost of food . |
| 4 | It had to succeed in selling , against Japanese competition , the product left to it by a conventionally organised British motor cycle industry which had already admitted defeat ; and sales were not keeping pace with production . |
| 5 | However , the implementation of existing directives into national law is not keeping pace with the 1992 programme . |
| 6 | Yet grants are not keeping pace and Mrs Pritchard feels that hard-up local authorities may soon have to reduce funding . |
| 7 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 8 | There is now widespread evidence that the transport infrastructure can not keep pace with growth , and the Confederation of British Industry argues that traffic congestion is now costing the country some £15bn a year . |
| 9 | What it means in practice , at least in the simplest cases , is that as an animal increases in overall size , various of its organs may not keep pace . |
| 10 | At the same time the quality of cattle was declining and any increase in their numbers did not keep pace with demand . |
| 11 | ‘ It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go , ’ he declares uncompromisingly . |
| 12 | It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go |
| 13 | In the 1970s the real price of cigarettes fell about 30% because cigarette taxation did not keep pace with inflation . |
| 14 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 15 | Despite these developments , charitable subscriptions supplemented by local appeals could not keep pace with rising demand and increasingly expensive treatments . |
| 16 | Unlike housing and education , health policies were remarkable for their continuity in the 1980s and the NHS finished the decade battered round the edges but largely intact : still the overwhelming supplier of health care in spite of the growth in the independent sector ; still tax-funded and for the most part free at the point of use ; still growing in real terms even though that did not keep pace with demand in the view of critics . |
| 17 | Increasing problems of indebtedness meant that railway development could not keep pace with changing population patterns . |
| 18 | Both sides had saved face with this compromise , but it meant the clear-up would not keep pace with dumping and the work was unlikely to ever be completed . |
| 19 | Since both hands are needed for the descent , as much as for the climb , one can not keep hold of any eggs that one finds . |
| 20 | The boys with whom I associated would not keep company with Journeymen excepting in their workshops , nor with lads whose fathers were not housekeepers . " |
| 21 | ‘ We must not keep Madame waiting . ’ |
| 22 | If you find your consumption is creeping up and up , do not keep alcohol in the house . |
| 23 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 24 | Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail . |
| 25 | If you are looking for a job there is no reason why you can not keep track of everything with a notepad and a pen . |
| 26 | What is for sure on the basis of a judgment made in nineteen sixty-eight when my Noble friend Lord Callaghan of Cardiff er was Home Secretary , it was made quite clear that no Minister of the Crown can tell a Chief Constable , can tell him he must or mee no or must not keep observation on this place or that . |
| 27 | Two acting notes for Frank : Less is more — do not shift your eyes at the audience so much , stare them down once every scene ; when in doubt about what to say next do not keep ad-libbing about Harry . |
| 28 | I referred earlier to the excellence of the Home Office research and statistics department when I explained that we do not keep crime figures for the past 12 centuries . |
| 29 | I am lecturing all over the place , ’ explained the explorer.However , although he also finds time for lectures to raise money for good causes , like his visit to Snape , Sir Ranulph is a notoriously private celebrity.He rarely gives interviews , and does not keep hand-out photographs of himself . |
| 30 | Truancy within the school day ( by pupils skipping individual lessons ) was not seen as a problem by headteachers ; 14 schools reported that they did not keep period attendance records . |