Example sentences of "could not keep [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 2 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 3 | Despite these developments , charitable subscriptions supplemented by local appeals could not keep pace with rising demand and increasingly expensive treatments . |
| 4 | Increasing problems of indebtedness meant that railway development could not keep pace with changing population patterns . |
| 5 | Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail . |