Example sentences of "keeping [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building materials company has been a market defensive favourite for the past decade as it concentrated on keeping down the costs of making its cement , and joinery , glass and steel products . |
| 2 | But it has been a case of getting better at managing the cash ; better at keeping down the costs . |
| 3 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 4 | Keeping down the overheads is also vitally important , buying in materials and services is very expensive and when these are extracted from the takings they can leave a very big hole in the balance sheet . |
| 5 | Ian Cocking just about manages to persuade the council that the ramp is worth keeping so the ramp is fixed up but a botch job on one piece of coping makes any trick other then just plain rock 'n' rolls virtually impossible . |
| 6 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 7 | Yeah , try those for and er , I mean there , but there , they 'll go on to a similar any way , but just keeping up the enjoyment side and er |
| 8 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 9 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 10 | A Borderer from Melrose , he showed more interest in keeping up the rivalry between Highlander and Lowlander than in scoring off the Sassenachs , whom he was prepared to respect as competitors and , if they were good enough , business associates . |
| 11 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 12 | Kirov took a couple steps back , keeping up the look of rejection before allowing his face to clear . |
| 13 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 14 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 15 | Blanche fished , tickling him into keeping up the conversation . |
| 16 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 17 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 18 | The conservatism of central and local government bureaucracy is only likely to be overcome if there is a strong , independent political movement keeping up the pressure for the legislation to be made meaningful . |
| 19 | He should still be inside , keeping up the pressure until he forced the truth out of her . |
| 20 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 21 | But we will be keeping up the pressure . ’ |
| 22 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 23 | The RCM understood this as well as they understood the realities of keeping up the supply of foster parents . |
| 24 | The claims of the opponents of monopoly turned out to be reasonably justified ; more and more slaves were shipped across the Atlantic by the independent traders , and the government found itself drawn further and further into keeping up the forts that provided English traders with a base of operations in West Africa . |
| 25 | All the resources of the place went into keeping up the God-Kings life-style , rather than improving the lives of the people . |
| 26 | We can now understand the importance to a country of keeping up the volume of exports . |
| 27 | Bill Strachan , its second owner , is keeping up the policy of good beer . |
| 28 | Keeping up the pricing pressure , Dell Computer Corp yesterday cut prices by $50 to $300 on six of its Dimension systems : the cuts affect three mid-size desktops and three floor-standing systems , and move than 60 Dimension configurations . |
| 29 | Tyrants and tribs with Ewen MacAskill mug Keeping up the stream of insults |
| 30 | Zak , keeping up the tension , said that at the last of our brief stops at minor stations he had been handed a telex about Angelica 's missing friend Steve . |