Example sentences of "not [adv] to keep [art] " in BNC.

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1 Their goal was not necessarily to keep the resulting ORS hypotonic .
2 Not enough to keep every writing hack in town , ’ I said bitterly .
3 But even here , there is not enough to keep the swans in food all winter .
4 Encouragement of this kind alone , however , was not enough to keep the ambitious project afloat .
5 Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements .
6 But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things .
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