Example sentences of "keeps [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 2 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 3 | That keeps them in second place . |
| 4 | They either operate through independent organisations or , as is becoming increasingly the case today , are based in a local church , which anchors them , provides a support team , and keeps them in close touch with the need for post-evangelistic care and of the difficulty widely experienced of integrating the convert into the life of the local church . |
| 5 | Loose eggs will hatch if vigorous aeration keeps them in constant motion . |
| 6 | This suspension can absorb a bump so quickly that the driver hardly senses it , yet it still keeps him in perfect control of the car . |
| 7 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |
| 8 | In this way the plant provides the larva with somewhere to live and feed , but keeps it in one place where it can not damage the leaves , buds or other important parts of the plant . |
| 9 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |