Example sentences of "keeping up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Tired as they were , they stumbled through the dark hours , picking themselves up when they fell , keeping up a pace that left no time for thought or speech .
2 The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case .
3 ‘ So you write to your family , keeping up a pretence that all is well with your world ?
4 So they 're keeping up a mystery to stay even with us .
5 Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her .
6 Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to .
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 .
  Next page