Example sentences of "kept [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fields near the margins of the swamp area were probably kept drained by the building of a network of canals : those towards the centre may have been built up above flood level with muck transferred from the canal bottoms . |
| 2 | Investigations of this kind reveal something of the structure of poverty by indicating those who were kept going by the poor rate , the only eighteenth-century tax which was redistributive . |
| 3 | The turbulence is being kept going by the working of this against the mean velocity gradient . |
| 4 | Unlike the circulatory system , in which the circulation of the blood is controlled by the pumping of the heart , the lymph is usually kept moving by the normal contraction and relaxation of the muscles during physical activity . |
| 5 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 6 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 7 | There must always be good communications and liaison between the reception office and housekeeping department , because in order to sell accommodation efficiently the receptionist must be kept informed by the housekeeping department of the exact status of all rooms at all times . |
| 8 | For a minimum annual subscription of £5 anyone can become a member of St Theresa 's Hospice and be kept informed by the quarterly newsletter . |