Example sentences of "keep [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any idea of codification was out of keeping with the English tradition of relatively unfettered judicial discretion and the elasticity of the common law . |
| 2 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 3 | Open records should lead to better record keeping in the primary sector and will give further support to the general practice of consulting parents early about learning or behavioural problems . |
| 4 | Yet keeping within the normal range is — ’ |
| 5 | The downtown area was a strange mixture of the very modem and the very old , like so many German towns where post-war reconstruction saved what it could , keeping to the old street patterns . |
| 6 | The canal would then drive southwards to Norton near to Long Buckby , keeping to the high ground and passing through tunnels at Husbands Bosworth and Crick , descending to the Grand Junction through five locks . |
| 7 | Keeping to the domestic front for the moment , what this means is that the conclusions which women reach , no matter how carefully and intelligently they are worked out , can never have the status of decisions . |
| 8 | I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that . |
| 9 | D : yes you can cycle all — you can ride right along the edge you know + without falling in you can ride right along the edge eh without em + going — keeping on the main road + that should be great actually + you could do that + |
| 10 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 11 | John Hayward , with whom he wed to live , is keeping on the old flat , and Eliot has paid up the rent for another two years . |
| 12 | That 's the caddie 's duty , to let the player keep in the right frame of mind . |
| 13 | How can I keep within the normal range when this sort of thing happens ? |
| 14 | If you would like to plant a silvery grey bed but want to add some flowers as well , you can keep to the silvery theme by adding pale and dark blues , creams and whites , all of which blend with the grey to give a stunning overall effect . |
| 15 | ‘ Does it always keep to the deep water ? ’ |
| 16 | On June 5th of that year he suddenly appeared at Racedown — ‘ he did not keep to the high road , but leaped over a gate and bounded down the pathless field ’ . |
| 17 | Yeah , so if you had if I try and draw it much the same if you had that and let's choose let's choose er , well le , let's keep the same let's keep to the same carbon chain if you had that the carbon skeleton is exactly the same the only way it differs is that the O H group here is on carbon one of that chain that we 've chosen where as here , it 's on carbon two of that chain . |
| 18 | Critics could barely keep to the constitutional pretence that the monarch was above political error . |
| 19 | The theory is it keeps off the white fly and attracts pollenaters . |
| 20 | A good number of fabliaux advise the husband simply to accept his inferiority to his wife and to allow her to continue to keep the passage of the world smooth ; at the end of Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille , " The Knight with the scarlet robe " , a husband who has surprised his wife and made the compromising discovery of her lover 's horse and robe is hoodwinked by her , and the tale concludes : ( But he who keeps to the right path should believe fully , without dispute , everything that his wife tells him . ) |
| 21 | That is how Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise first sees each week 's new adversary ; it is by flat-panel TV that Winston Smith keeps on the right side of Big Brother . |
| 22 | Michael Doohan keeps on the right side of the law , though few cops would dare book the nation 's new two-wheel hero |
| 23 | ( There is presumably no reason IBM ca n't , like the services , make new offers to those it particularly wants to keep after the first time . ) |
| 24 | A matter I 'm obliged to keep in the strictest confidence , but It is , I can not stress too strongly , of the profoundest importance . ’ |
| 25 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 26 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 27 | ‘ Now , here , you see , it takes all the running you can do , to keep in the same place . |
| 28 | The remittance basis is only applicable to Cases IV and V and capital gains tax and thus it is important to keep within the correct Case . |
| 29 | Citing health service expenditure and public-sector salaries as major problems , the article suggested that a further package of economic measures would be necessary to enable the government to keep within the targeted budget deficit . |
| 30 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |