Example sentences of "keep [adv prt] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 2 | Keeping up with the pace of change |
| 3 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 4 | It was comparatively easy for them to follow courses on particular aircraft types or their engines ( which were mostly civil versions of military aircraft engines anyway ) to ensure that the engineering side of AIB was also keeping up with the times . |
| 5 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 6 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 7 | He freely admits the increasing extravagance of the average suburban wedding has more to do with keeping up with the girl in the semi next door than sticking to tradition . |
| 8 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 9 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |
| 10 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 11 | Keeping up with the Joneses |
| 12 | Obviously we were n't keeping up with the Joneses , so she started screwing the boss . ’ |
| 13 | If anything , hardware is n't keeping up with the demands of the kinds of software he 'd like to see . |
| 14 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 15 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 16 | So an important thing is being aware , keeping up with the news ? |
| 17 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 18 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 19 | ‘ We are not going to stop our style of play , we are a free-running side who want to score tries and even if we come unstuck against good sides with well-organised defences we will still keep on with the kind of game which we know pleases the fans . ’ |
| 20 | Why not keep in with the people who really run racing , the villains ? |
| 21 | It could now be argued that , throughout the history of the earth , Nature had rewarded those who were able and energetic , and punished those who could not keep up with the race towards higher things . |
| 22 | Global-scale investments in new skills and production approaches that can readily be transferred across borders have replaced much of the trade ; few can keep up with the pace of change . |
| 23 | We hope the 4 cylinder speedsters can keep up with the pace . |
| 24 | Motoring : Can R-R keep up with the times ? |
| 25 | Then suddenly , when Manson was in the headlines , as popular shows do , they said , we 've got ta keep up with the times and Hawaii Five-O went super psychedelic . |
| 26 | It was then that Teddy realised he could keep up with the love-of-his-life and help Anita and Bob . |
| 27 | But it seems that not everyone can keep up with the way our language is changing . |
| 28 | However the High Court can no longer keep up with the increase in applications for judicial reviews — there is an average delay of 18 months in getting a case heard . |
| 29 | With the verb help , the contrast between the two infinitives is harder to observe , as can be seen from ( 11 ) and ( 12 ) , where to keep and to explain could be substituted without altering their import to any significant degree : ( 11 ) Several photographs and charts of the galaxy help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion … |
| 30 | When that happened , we could n't keep up with the mortgage payments so we lost the house . ’ |