Example sentences of "keep up the [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The question for investors now is whether the shares , excellent performers through the recession , can keep up the pace in a recovery .
2 Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit .
3 More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers .
4 To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from .
5 So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets , old carpets or sacking .
6 And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint .
7 When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all .
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