Example sentences of "have kept [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 2 | Studies have shown that the middle-class image of the CAB volunteer , for example , has kept young people away . |
| 3 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 4 | The Advisory Committee forms part of the checks and balances which make this Hearing System so unique , and which , since its inauguration in 1971 , has kept many thousands of young people out of court . |
| 5 | It seems as though this is what has kept all those trekkies going for decades . |
| 6 | Where the quotation is not capable of immediate acceptance by the buyer it is thus an invitation to treat , and , at this stage , the seller has kept all of his options open . |
| 7 | He has kept five clean sheets in his last seven outings , a feat which is down to his own ability and the fact he ‘ now has a good understanding with the defenders in front of me ’ . |
| 8 | In Scotland the possibility of devolution has kept alive the thoughts of further changes in local government . |
| 9 | B is part of the line sag but has kept clear of the chaos within 15 per cent of either end . |
| 10 | Lord ferrers has kept silent about the proposal since he first approached the Ministry of Defence . |
| 11 | This has kept mass tourism at bay . |
| 12 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 13 | The young musician Diego Huerin has kept this same vision in mind in his new arrangement of La Pasión . |
| 14 | A particularly friendly , informal atmosphere prevails here and has kept this small hotel popular with Citalia guests over many years . |
| 15 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend familiar with the automatic warning system of the Great Western railway , which has kept this tunnel and hundreds of miles of railway line safe for years ? |
| 16 | Kylie — one of the world 's most travelled 21-year-olds — has kept secret a phobia which has always haunted her . |
| 17 | ‘ If anyone knows anything that could help and has kept quiet for any reason , I would beg them to please come forward now . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If anyone knows anything that could help and has kept quiet for any reason , I would beg them to please come forward now , ’ his distraught mother said . |
| 19 | The CNAA has kept detailed records of its candidates . |
| 20 | It is an industry which even in times of recession has kept most of its 70 000 employees and taken on a welcome and regular flow of new recruits . |
| 21 | Tomorrow she would have to do some shopping ; she 'd kept most of her other clothes at the clinic . |
| 22 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , I 'd never have breathed a syllable if he 'd kept quiet about the dog track . ’ |
| 24 | He wished he 'd kept quiet . |
| 25 | Her voice sounded over-loud in the silent kitchen , and she wished she 'd kept quiet . |
| 26 | ‘ For a thief ? ’ she queried sourly , wishing she 'd kept quiet about it . |
| 27 | Having kept tropical marines for a number of years , I was inspired by an article in an old fish keeping magazine , to keep native marines . |
| 28 | Having kept many spiny eels , I only undid the bag a little to inject water in slowly , but made my next mistake in not tying the bag up again . |
| 29 | SHABBA AND ‘ The Specialist ’ may not be the only ones to respond with a terse ‘ Who he ? ’ when confronted by Scritti Politti , Green having kept such a low profile over the last three years . |
| 30 | Accola will be resplendent in a bright yellow costume , the product of a sponsorship deal with a cheese Accola would love to outshine his friend Tomba on his home soil while the Austrian-born Girardelli , who skis for Luxembourg , has his sights fixed on a record fifth overall world title , having kept clear of the injury problems which bedevilled his preparations last year . |