Example sentences of "keep the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analysis of the English vowel system presented in Chapters 2 and 3 contains a large number of phonemes , and it is not surprising that some phonologists ( who believed in the importance of keeping the total number of phonemes small ) proposed different analyses which contain less than ten vowel phonemes and treat all long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two phonemes each . |
| 2 | If the government buys back £1 million of maturing bonds from the general public and then , keeping the total amount of its borrowing the same , raises £1 million by selling Treasury bills to the discount houses , what will happen to the money supply ? |
| 3 | Stock control means keeping the correct balance between the range of products stocked by the retailer , and the sales which arise from carrying that stock . |
| 4 | They then scan the tip across the sample , keeping the current constant by moving the tip up and down very slightly . |
| 5 | From 1960 to the present the field staff in Scotland have continued to pursue their primary commitment of keeping the geological maps of the country up to date and publishing descriptive matter on the geology . |
| 6 | If one wished to do so , one could sign up for the directive while keeping the 1908 legislation in force . |
| 7 | And the experience they gathered could be channelled to us , keeping the New Internationalist in touch with the experience of peasants and ordinary working people . |
| 8 | When , in 1839 , the Sultan made a disastrous attempt to recoup his losses of 1833 , all the Great Powers saw the need for keeping the new conflict within bounds . |
| 9 | If you 're over-polite in conversation , your use of distance may suggest that you want to play high status by keeping the other person at bay , below you . |
| 10 | It is believed the woman teacher was attacked after keeping the two boys in detention . |
| 11 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 12 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 13 | Practise this the full length of the training hall and then switch feet , keeping the right foot in place and stepping out with the left . |
| 14 | Since citizenship has become a fashionable and acceptable word , it is easy to slip into the habit of using it in preference to ‘ individual rights ’ or ‘ human rights ’ , but it is important to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the private sphere of the life of the individual separate from his role as citizen , an essentially political role and status . |
| 15 | As Cowley walked towards the slightly hunched figure of Bodie , he was able to see Doyle 's peaceful face , eyes closed , white as a sheet ; a moment later the trolley was behind the closing doors of the lift , and Doyle 's life was now in the hands of others , men skilled in surgery , and in the ways of keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body . |
| 16 | This morning I observed all of them returning home in single file after their dawn patrol around the valley and as usual mother was leading the way with father in the middle keeping the unruly youngsters in hand . |
| 17 | The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap . |
| 18 | We planned to include 10 plants from each collection in the bank , enough to offset the risk of trees dying through disease or neglect , while keeping the overall area within manageable limits . |
| 19 | And given that total hardware sales plummeted by 19.4% to $5,740m in the quarter , keeping the overall decline to 7% was an achievement in itself , even if within a quarter or three , turnover can be expected to start declining at an accelerating pace . |
| 20 | And given that total hardware sales plummeted by 19.4% to $5,740m in the quarter , keeping the overall decline to 7% was an achievement in itself , even if within a quarter or three , turnover can be expected to start declining at an accelerating pace . |
| 21 | It could be , and often is , a successful method of keeping the working class in their place . |
| 22 | Maybe by eschewing academic standards the radicals are playing their own part in keeping the working classes in their place . |
| 23 | Which would be to make them more dynamic , occasionally broader but always keeping the inner life of each woman as real and as simple as Joyce would herself have wanted . |
| 24 | Judges would be charged with the duty of interpreting and protecting the constitution so keeping the legislative sovereignty of Parliament within written , legal , limits . |
| 25 | They got a lot of overheads just keeping the big boys off their necks — kickbacks , blood-money , you name it . |
| 26 | And even though I assure myself that it 's just the annual resurgence of an old allergy ( a distant relation of eczema — Xmasa ) , I am still incapable of keeping the worst symptoms at bay . |
| 27 | While keeping the same kind of security of tenure structure … it was made far weaker from the tenant 's point of view than under the 1977 Rent Act . |
| 28 | Only the sailing types appreciated the problems of keeping the same bit of distant coast line ahead on the same point of sailing and in the same position relative to the other boats . |
| 29 | Familiar faces can also be established by keeping the same characters throughout the series in the same roles . |
| 30 | Maneka Gandhi , India 's former Environment Minister , accused the G7 countries of " keeping the Third World on the debt/poverty hook , whilst vastly over-consuming and polluting themselves " . |