Example sentences of "[adv] keep [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 2 | On June 5th of that year he suddenly appeared at Racedown — ‘ he did not keep to the high road , but leaped over a gate and bounded down the pathless field ’ . |
| 3 | So , if I lose a stone , I need to eat 200–300 fewer calories a day for the rest of my life , just to keep at the same weight . |
| 4 | Fourthly it is generally true to say that fewer people are required to operate such systems and those employed are normally kept outside the main storage area . |
| 5 | For practical reasons , the subjects of these articles are not normally kept at the average stockists , but they are available , so some research into the lists was called for . |
| 6 | Far better to change eating habits so that a sensible pattern is established , easing up when a satisfactory weight is reached , but still keeping to the same ‘ right ’ kind of foods . |
| 7 | ‘ Does it always keep to the deep water ? ’ |
| 8 | Births , marriages , deaths — ; all the routine stuff is still kept at the local Standesamt where it was first registered , and only there . |
| 9 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 10 | The Brussels élite from Count Egmont to the Eurocrats have always kept to the high ground , but the lower quarter has recently turned stylish . |
| 11 | The creation of strings , textures and their weird kin is traditionally kept in the earliest universe — about which less is known , providing more room for manoeuvre . |
| 12 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | Yet keeping within the normal range is — ’ |
| 14 | Critics could barely keep to the constitutional pretence that the monarch was above political error . |