Example sentences of "[noun] to keep [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first light the Commandos are on the move again in an attempt to keep up with the retreating enemy . |
| 2 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 3 | The decision to look for a significant equity partner appears to be Virgin 's attempt to keep out of the clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible force in the worldwide music business . |
| 4 | Entry is normally open to all who can demonstrate a capacity to keep up with the courses and to benefit from such study , regardless of age or background . |
| 5 | Quite a job to keep up with the crane . |
| 6 | In Les Patineurs and Les Rendezvous Ashton makes his dancers travel upwards as well in an effort to show off their abilities to keep up with the music and beat each other to the exit . |
| 7 | Formalized procedures for monitoring publications are in place to keep up with the information explosion … . |
| 8 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 9 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 10 | Or should it seek weaker competitors or new entrants who are often more accommodating to local policy , but may lack the resources to keep up with the pace of change ? |
| 11 | A TEENAGER began a £135,000 credit fraud spree to keep up with the yuppie lifestyle of his workmates , a court was told yesterday . |
| 12 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 13 | This may , indeed , have some merit , but by itself it is not likely to help with decisions about major investments to keep up with the technological race . |
| 14 | The moth 's surest means of staying alive , therefore , is not to be detected ; and it has the advantage of advance warning to keep out of the way . |
| 15 | This they avoided as they followed their Head Girl 's strict instructions to keep out of the rough areas . |
| 16 | Harry Hawke recalls that it was the aim of skinhead devotees of this music to keep up with the latest releases and consequently white-label , i.e. pre-release , copies of records were the mark of a skin who knew his music . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 18 | The crowds assembled in Trafalgar Square cheered demands for Britain to keep out of the spreading European crisis . |
| 19 | Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ . |
| 20 | It is the Norah Batty syndrome , if I may be sexist , where far from losing a million people off the register as happened during the last census because of the poll tax , in the next census men will be sent to the shed at the bottom of the garden to keep out of the way . |
| 21 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 22 | This deviation from Beveridge 's plan made the scheme expensive to general taxation , and probably tended to prevent the adoption of benefit levels sufficient to provide subsistence incomes to those with no other resources and to inhibit subsequent increases to keep up with the cost of living . |
| 23 | All ten of us crammed onto the porch to keep out of the wet grass and we slept in a tangle of sleeping bags , packs and machine guns . |
| 24 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 25 | When Captain Maestrangelo got back to his office he realized he had eaten far too much too quickly in an effort to keep up with the Substitute . |
| 26 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 27 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
| 28 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 29 | Mixed with an old-fashioned respect for education , this means that tens of thousands of new jobs have to be generated each year to keep up with the prodigious output of mothers and universities . |
| 30 | Some students were reduced to learning their work parrot-fashion in order to keep up to the standard , while at the same time lacking any real understanding of what they were taught . |