Example sentences of "[noun pl] keep [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat in a chair with a shawl over her shoulders to keep off the draughts . |
| 2 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 3 | Modern tournament fighters keep on the move all the time . |
| 4 | Acetylene cylinders kept in the workshops made conditions particularly dangerous , a spokeswoman said . |
| 5 | S382 of the CA 1985 provides that ‘ every company shall cause minutes of all proceedings of general meetings , all proceedings at meetings of its directors … to be entered in books kept for the purpose . ’ |
| 6 | Admittedly the attacking Scots had a planned assault to carry out , but in the circumstances keeping to the plan was all but impossible . |
| 7 | Erich Duchinsky , a Youth Allyah worker at Pakefield and Dovercourt , encouraged his youngsters to keep on the move . |
| 8 | It was to be reserved exclusively for motor transport , all marching columns to keep to the field on either side ; any truck breaking down was at once to be heaved into the ditch . |
| 9 | The refugees kept in the camps face many crises of diet ; not only is it not balanced in some cases , but it may also not arrive on time , causing disease and death . |
| 10 | Nostalgia for secret quests , obsessions , purity , past promises to keep at the expense of present obligations , these should be confined to the realm of fiction , I thought . |
| 11 | He admitted the strategy posed risks to his party , but said : ‘ I 've got to be prepared , to continue to be prepared , to take risky positions to keep in the game . ’ |
| 12 | Fearing King Henry 's anger his captors kept under the cover of woodland , moving stealthily from one secret hide-out to another , dragging William along with his wound unbandaged and still bleeding . |
| 13 | Rumours are circulating on the basis of a hint from Sidorov that the Russians are considering a counter-claim for the Malevich collection of twenty-nine paintings kept by the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam ( The Art Newspaper No. 15 , Feb 1992 , p.2 ) . |
| 14 | So whatever our reservations at the behest of the party , trade unionists kept in the background . |
| 15 | They wore large cotton hats to keep off the sun , and gloves to protect their hands from the corn . |
| 16 | If the Treasury underestimates the level of inflation , as it has every incentive to do , departments will be forced to cut their spending further in real terms to keep within the limits . |
| 17 | Novices keep to the sheltered area . |
| 18 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 19 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 20 | Above the river , the seagulls kept on the wing as long as they could , hoping the turbulence would bring them a good find , then , defeated and battered , they heeled and screamed away to find refuge . |
| 21 | Never conceal a mistake , for mistakes kept in the dark tend to grow out of all proportion . |
| 22 | No breaks in the cold chain were documented at the central storage facility , although vaccines kept at the study site were discarded on two occasions after power failures that lasted several hours . |
| 23 | In the Conservative leadership contest , Douglas Hurd , the foreign secretary , made reform of the hours kept by the Commons one of his themes . |
| 24 | I was struck by the Minister 's litany of the hours kept by the Committee considering the Local Government Finance Bill because I served on the Committee . |
| 25 | Maybe as little as 25% of Free Range Birds kept in the large commercial Free Range Units ( housing several thousand ) , see the light of day , and are de-beaked to outbreaks of cannibalism . |
| 26 | In this study the number and type of referrals , and the test methods and results have been obtained from contemporaneous files of duplicate request and result forms kept in the Department of Nuclear Medicine in which complete records are held . |
| 27 | There are the cleaning products kept under the sink and a well-stocked medicine cabinet to be explored . |
| 28 | The woods kept by the woodwards were as a general rule also subject to the authority of the king 's foresters ; if the latter discovered a Forest offence there which had not been reported by the woodward , the wood was seized and the woodward attached to answer for his default . |
| 29 | Answer guide : A sole proprietorship has one owner whereas a partner has at least two , partners are jointly and severally liable for the debts of the partnership , there needs to be separate accounts kept of the transactions relating to each partner , agreements need to be reached regarding profit shares etc . |
| 30 | This article is based on notes kept over the years since the late 1970s . |