Example sentences of "keep [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana daubed luminous paint on the eyes of her cuddly green hippo so that at night it seemed as though he was keeping watch and looking after her . |
| 2 | He stressed that anyone who is interested must have a commitment to the police force and ‘ the idea of keeping law and order ’ . |
| 3 | They emphasize the importance , both for keeping independence and for helping their descendants , of owning even a small amount of property and passing down specialized occupational skills . |
| 4 | Chemical filtration — for keeping butterfly and angelfish — means activated carbon . |
| 5 | Most significantly , the impact of the Agricultural Revolution and the extensive enclosures in rural parishes during the late 18th and early 19th centuries drove the young and healthy away from home in search of work and the possibility of keeping body and soul together . |
| 6 | Knowing the personal satisfaction of keeping body and mind wholly alert and fit , obeying no other master than his own conscience . |
| 7 | She had regarded men as men had been used to regard women : pleasant and pleasurable enough when they stayed in line but outside the mainstream of life and more or less irrelevant to its principal purpose , which was keeping body and soul together with as little effort and as much comfort as was practically consistent with this aim . |
| 8 | Their education , he said , was irrelevant to their duties , their poverty such that they had to spend most of their time keeping body and soul together . |
| 9 | Ross is keeping price and performance pretty much under cover , though there is talk of them shipping samples to Sun in July . |
| 10 | Although Cypress/Ross is keeping price and performance of its own superscalar effort pretty much under wraps , the HyperSparc — known until now only by its code-name , Pinnacle — will start life as a 55MHz offering in its first iteration , set to rise to 80MHz later in the year . |
| 11 | Rapid changes in the market place put a great strain on top management to ensure a company is keeping pace and is sufficiently aware of what is happening around the world . |
| 12 | Yet grants are not keeping pace and Mrs Pritchard feels that hard-up local authorities may soon have to reduce funding . |
| 13 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 14 | If you are sensitive to certain plastics , you should avoid keeping food or drinks in plastic containers . |
| 15 | One of the ways in which the children at the school develop their computer skills is by keeping weather and farm records . |
| 16 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 17 | We believe that German unification will prove more troublesome than anyone has been expecting , keeping interest and exchange rates higher than expected . |
| 18 | We welcome the Government 's commitment to keeping finance and income support levels under review ; the Committee will examine the position from time to time , and ensure that the levels remain reasonable . |
| 19 | Sandra had virtually given up her career to devote herself to the task of keeping house and raising a family , though , in that respect , the relationship did not mature as she had hoped . |
| 20 | All filters will require a short ‘ run-in ’ period of up to three or four weeks during which time you should keep stock and feed levels low and conduct extra partial water changes . |
| 21 | In others , they have done it because they have felt they have had to : perhaps they would have failed to attract and keep labour if the jobs had been too fragmented . |
| 22 | The notorious Koevoet death squads are being incorporated into the local police force to help keep law and order during the UN elections , which is a joke . |
| 23 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 24 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 25 | The real question that the hon. Gentleman should put is to his own party : how will it keep tax and spending plans going if it does not have the benefit of privatisation revenues ? |
| 26 | I said I 'd keep contact and |
| 27 | How well she could keep control and use words and manipulate their meanings and score points . |
| 28 | As the temperature of the block is raised at a constant rate the sample temperature T s and that of the reference , T r will keep pace until a change in the sample takes place . |
| 29 | She must keep spirit and flesh wedded . |
| 30 | A tip for oxygenating plants — slip a pair of old tights round the basket to help keep soil and stones in place . |