Example sentences of "[am/are] kept [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Log files are kept for every log-in session for every student management system user .
2 Only a small minority of the wines are kept for a long time as vintage wines .
3 Passenger manifests are kept for a long time .
4 These records are kept for a two-year period only , within which time some 40,000 issues are made .
5 Rents are kept to a reasonable level to enable as many people as possible to benefit , and the maintenance is in the hands of a committee who hold regular fund-raising events .
6 However , environmentalists are calling for proof from manufacturers that no other propellant can be used to replace CFCs in these instances , so that emissions are kept to a bare minimum .
7 All our cottages are kept to a high standard to ensure an enjoyable stay .
8 Expatriate vehicles are kept to an absolute minimum , and site offices are merely caravans .
9 Price 's candles to fill the candelabra are kept with the dry stores in the cellars .
10 Large reservoirs of this naphtha are kept at the superior stations , the tank at Askabad containing 80,000 gallons , and it is transported along the line in cistern cars , holding 2,400 gallons each . ’
11 The question of equipment failures becomes most important when goldfish are kept under an intensive system .
12 If you return from holiday with a large quantity of olives , they will survive longer if they are kept in a dark place , so that the light can not cause any fermentation in the brine .
13 It also has the most sophisticated un-erase facility around ; deleted files are kept in a special directory , so you 're sure to get them back .
14 With five biting the dust already the family have had to undergo training to ensure the new ones are kept in a safe place .
15 If , for example , only a couple of fish are kept in a large tank , that are not established pairs , one will want to rule the whole tank and will pick on the other fish continually .
16 The Chairman then signs ( and dates his signature ) the official minutes , which are kept in an official minute book with the minutes of all previous meetings .
17 The screen display on this machine is ‘ memory-mapped ’ , that is , the contents of the screen are kept in the random-access memory of the computer in binary form ( Chapter 1 ) .
18 Returns are kept in the Public Record Office at Chancery Lane , London , under the classification E179 , but an enquirer should first check the availability of those which have been printed on a county basis or have been copied on to microfilm .
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