Example sentences of "in [noun] to keep [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locks are improved in attempt to keep out unwanted visitors |
| 2 | The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams , the Tong , the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry this summer . |
| 3 | Formalized procedures for monitoring publications are in place to keep up with the information explosion … . |
| 4 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 5 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |
| 6 | As we mentioned in Chapter 5 , at this stage you need only time-table three or perhaps four exercise routines per week ( where you get slightly breathless at each session for a half-hour period ) in order to keep up a reasonable degree of fitness . |
| 7 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 8 | The common thread running among many of the announcements was that companies were sprucing up their bus architectures in order to keep up with the faster processor and memory : Advanced Logic 's server features a new ‘ Quadflex ’ architecture using a 128-bit ASIC chip set and dual 64-bit buses . |
| 9 | There may be some people who simply observe the outward forms of religion , in order to keep up appearances or not to upset their relations , but who have no real religious belief or feelings … |
| 10 | Moreover , in order to keep up payments on their debts , governments use up scarce foreign exchange . |
| 11 | Some students were reduced to learning their work parrot-fashion in order to keep up to the standard , while at the same time lacking any real understanding of what they were taught . |
| 12 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 13 | Every so often she would totter , and since her companion walked more purposefully she was having to add a half-step every so often in order to keep up . |
| 14 | However , I do accept that occasionally it 's necessary to promote a volunteer in order to keep up morale in the ranks . |
| 15 | The extremists ' behaviour helps Mr Yeltsin because it convinces voters who do not much like him that they have to vote for the president in order to keep out people like Messrs Baburin and Isakov . |
| 16 | For example , you may want to cover only part of the loan , in order to keep down premiums . |
| 17 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 18 | By allowing , in the interests of economic profitability , the financial institutions to regulate themselves , by weakening , in order to keep down industry 's costs , the power of the agencies who are meant to control health and safety and pollution , the Conservatives again have revealed the ideological basis to their law and order position . |