Example sentences of "keep [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems obvious that you should buy the most powerful motherboard that you can afford but do n't make the mistake of buying something out of keeping with the re-used components or you will be looking to replace those too in a few months ! |
| 2 | Any idea of codification was out of keeping with the English tradition of relatively unfettered judicial discretion and the elasticity of the common law . |
| 3 | The majority of the Parish Council object to this development because it is out of keeping with the surrounding properties in size , design and proposed building materials . |
| 4 | Whilst these issues are particularly considered in the context of office systems , opportunities exist to improve the quality of electronic record keeping in the following types of developments : groupware , optical imaging systems , executive information systems ( EIS ) , text retrieval systems , electronic data interchange ( EDI ) , compound document management and work flow management , amongst others . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet keeping within the normal range is — ’ |
| 8 | The case of Percy and Another v Smith illustrates the problem of keeping within the strict requirements of construction and use regulations . |
| 9 | The composition of Joni 's painting derives mainly from Matteo 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ , n.283 in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena , but while keeping to the internal rhythms of Matteo 's composition , Joni incorporates his own variations . |
| 10 | The Government refuses to publish reports showing whether the tobacco industry is keeping to the voluntary agreements that restrict tobacco advertising near schools . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just wander round , keeping to the public footpaths and tracks , seeing where you end up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 + |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That 's the caddie 's duty , to let the player keep in the right frame of mind . |
| 19 | How can I keep within the normal range when this sort of thing happens ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Does it always keep to the deep water ? ’ |
| 22 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 25 | Critics could barely keep to the constitutional pretence that the monarch was above political error . |
| 26 | The theory is it keeps off the white fly and attracts pollenaters . |
| 27 | Provided that the pilot keeps to the correct procedures , winch and car launches can be very safe . |
| 28 | 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 . ) |
| 29 | The interest of UE is simply that it follows Gaius , and keeps to the basic wordings . |
| 30 | 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 . |