Example sentences of "want to keep [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stresses that it wants to keep rules to a minimum , but argues that the Community has to do something to help its weaker parts adapt to a single market and to meet workers ' worries about what 1992 will mean for them . |
| 2 | ‘ He wants to keep things calm as much as we do ; he wants the men to wait . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 4 | But the Bank of England signalled it wants to keep base rates held at 101/2 p.c . |
| 5 | He wants to keep Portsmouth in the dark until the teams line-up for the kick-off . |
| 6 | The System/36 operation wants to keep sales up , but those running the AIX show want to open everything up . ’ |
| 7 | Coach Keith Richardson has named his team but its being treated as classified information he wants to keep Northampton guessing … 007 has the day off but morese code from Kingsholm tells us skipper Ian Smith will be back in the team … |
| 8 | The inference to be drawn is that , if we want to keep taxes down we should encourage everyone else to smoke like a forest fire . |
| 9 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
| 10 | Manchester United refused to part with Dennis Irwin or Paul Parker , and Manchester City have made it clear they want to keep Ian Brightwell . |
| 11 | Manchester United refused to part with Dennis Irwin or Paul Parker , and Manchester City have made it clear they want to keep Ian Brightwell . |
| 12 | If you want to keep turtles happy , do n't keep them at all . |
| 13 | If you want to keep turtles happy , do n't keep them at all . |
| 14 | Speaking on BBC Radio 4 the Chancellor said : ‘ You can not escape the need to raise interest rates if you want to keep inflation down , nor can you escape the possibility that interest rates may go even higher . ’ |
| 15 | My point is , I think you want to keep Zambia Crevecoeur very close to you now , and that this is not a temporary arrangement . |
| 16 | If you want to keep Pimelodus pictus with small fish , you might find you can get away with it in a densely planted tank , so long as the Pims are getting plenty of other food to eat . |
| 17 | One comes from a group of domestic investors who want to keep UNI in Norwegian hands . |
| 18 | Arguments against this include : ‘ MIT want to keep power away from Princeton ’ , and ‘ putting — it elsewhere costs another 250 million and there will be protests anyway ’ . |
| 19 | We want to keep Bosnia as one . ’ |
| 20 | Many small employers want to keep Wages Councils . |
| 21 | Vernon had good reason for wanting to keep Hunsdon at Berwick , since the governor owed him money ; and his assessment of the benefits and drawbacks was not unbiased . |
| 22 | If she asked , he would accuse her of nagging , of wanting to keep tabs on him . |
| 23 | Mr Miles said : ‘ Nobody would be wanting to keep machinery going if there is no hope for Tim 's survival . ’ |
| 24 | However much I might want to keep tabs on him , bumping into him several times a day in the corridor hardly seemed the best route to anonymity . |
| 25 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 26 | If you do want to keep toads , do obtain adults rather than rear from spawn , as you would otherwise have to release perhaps dozens of surplus animals into an environment that might not suit them . |
| 27 | Butlin of course wanted to keep campers in the camps . |
| 28 | I had wanted to keep Tamsin 's name out of it , but it 's too late now . |
| 29 | I wanted to keep music integral to the paper but to allow us to cover books , movies , politics ; the whole gamut of pop culture . |
| 30 | He just wanted to keep things quiet , obviously . |