Example sentences of "could [not/n't] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Despite these developments , charitable subscriptions supplemented by local appeals could not keep pace with rising demand and increasingly expensive treatments . |
| 4 | Increasing problems of indebtedness meant that railway development could not keep pace with changing population patterns . |
| 5 | Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | There was a woman called Wilkinson who could n't keep order in a birdcage . |
| 8 | It was too much , too soon because his development as a person could n't keep pace with his progress as a tennis player . |
| 9 | And of course , you could n't keep pace with it , because Buckingham Palace had bought it you see , and it was good . |
| 10 | Mabel believes the use of brittle foreign jet , imported when local supplies could n't keep pace , is one reason why jet fell from favour . |
| 11 | There was muzak echoing from cheap speakers , generated from a cassette somewhere that could n't keep speed . |
| 12 | When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house . |
| 13 | A minute or two later Pat said he could n't keep height for lack of power and we would have to ditch . |
| 14 | She simply could n't keep house — not that that mattered so much — but she could n't cope at all with the children . |
| 15 | She felt muddled … could n't keep track of one thought for long . |
| 16 | Leeds just could nt keep possession for any time , so were nt building attacks , even the clearances started going out of play . |