Example sentences of "keep up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 5 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |
| 6 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 7 | Keeping up with the Joneses |
| 8 | Obviously we were n't keeping up with the Joneses , so she started screwing the boss . ’ |
| 9 | If anything , hardware is n't keeping up with the demands of the kinds of software he 'd like to see . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Motoring : Can R-R keep up with the times ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I do n't keep up with the names any more . ’ |
| 16 | Ten millennia of history will have been sacrificed to a crop of little taste and to gardeners who must keep up with the Joneses . |
| 17 | This is because poorer families who see the superior goods being consumed by their richer neighbours will attempt to ‘ keep up with the Joneses ’ and so spend a large fraction of their incomes . |
| 18 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 19 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 20 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they develop . |
| 21 | Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they change . |
| 22 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 23 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 24 | Yes , you have to keep up with the times , but it 's about as hop and happening as Liverpool 's away kit — and as clear as the sprites on Shadow Warriors ! |
| 25 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 26 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 27 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |
| 28 | Nicholson became a member of an elite group of chemists — the B-Club — in whose company he was able to keep up with the activities of Hofmann and his associates . |
| 29 | Nutty found both the running and swimming hard , but had no option but to keep up with the boys . |
| 30 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |