Example sentences of "[adj] to keep up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total . |
| 2 | I was trying to teach him French , as he was finding it hard to keep up with the stream of orders and commands being issued by the staff . |
| 3 | The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die . |
| 4 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they develop . |
| 5 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they change . |
| 6 | Alison Norman in her challenging discussion paper suggests very basic origins for ageism : ‘ We have , after all , an animal inheritance and it is animal instinct to challenge and destroy the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail and to abandon to their fate animals which are too weak to keep up with the rest . ’ |
| 7 | Nicholson became a member of an elite group of chemists — the B-Club — in whose company he was able to keep up with the activities of Hofmann and his associates . |
| 8 | Dad , as a master-tailor during the '14 –'18; war , had a War Department contract for army uniforms , and so we were able to keep up with the Jones 's ( or should I say , the Cohens ? ) . |
| 9 | City authorities from Calcutta to Cairo have laid sewers , but they are too expensive to keep up with the growth of the cities . |
| 10 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |