Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to keep the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each succeeding consortium sold a bit more of the park to keep the banks happy . |
| 2 | What it really required was probably sandbags or or steel in the base to keep the base |
| 3 | Use fibre or brass washers between the sink and the board to keep the sink about 2mm clear of the board surface . |
| 4 | ‘ These units are enormously helpful to parents and we must pull out all the stops to find the money to keep the units open . |
| 5 | From the late-18th century onwards , devices containing hot water were placed under or around the sauce-boat to keep the sauce hot . |
| 6 | According to agent Bill Hamilton , the decision to keep the campaign low key was taken locally . |
| 7 | Next day Brzezinski suggested to Carter that the decision to keep the Shah to be reconsidered . |
| 8 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |
| 9 | However , the scramble to keep the peace went on . |
| 10 | So , Creation 6 takes care of this for us by working on an elastic grid , allowing us to design in proportion and then making this a proportional pattern within the electronics to keep the design proportions correct . |
| 11 | He was sent along the quayside to keep the attack moving , and Brigadier Haydon committed the floating reserve ( Group 4 ) in a landing at the north end of the town . |
| 12 | I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . |
| 13 | I once took all eleven of my dad 's Angel Fish to school in a jam jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . ’ |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal said that the attempt to keep the group afloat by recourse to both companies ' assets was a reasonable commercial judgment in the circumstances and was not unfairly prejudicial . |
| 15 | As a precaution , since cold iron is repulsive to fairies , scissors or nails could be suspended over the crib to keep the baby safe . |
| 16 | It also urges the Department to keep the possibility of moving to a single regime under review . |
| 17 | Especially if , as in recent years , there is not boss or patron of the peloton to keep the pace down , to stamp down the rebels and thus avoid unnecessary and strength-sapping chases . |
| 18 | The police had done a reasonable job of cleaning up and had put a plastic sheet over the hole in the window to keep the rain out . |
| 19 | If she found herself liking him — and several times during the course of the afternoon 's decorating she had come perilously close — she could never hope to keep up her side of the battle to keep the club . |
| 20 | But for the moment , he and his wife are happy to have won the battle to keep the family home . |
| 21 | The campaign to keep the Kuwaitis plight in the public eye is organised from a semi-detached house in central London . |
| 22 | Support the campaign to keep the path along the Thames behind Shirelake Close private . |
| 23 | The unions have accused coal industry chiefs of offering men better redundancy terms if they quit soon , in order to undermine the campaign to keep the pits open . |
| 24 | Once he had fitted in the rudder to keep the dinghy straight against the set of the tide he returned to the subject . |
| 25 | No elevator input is required , there is no treadling the rudder to keep the nose above the horizon and the power is simply left at 19,500 rpm to describe this most effortless of manoeuvres . |
| 26 | An order may require the child to keep the supervisor informed of any change of address ( para 8(1) ( a ) ) . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont set an inflation target of between one and four per cent , excluding mortgage costs , with the aim to keep the figure at the lower end of the scale . |
| 28 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 29 | Under sectorisation individual managers have much more clearly defined responsibility , and the need to keep the customer informed about the whereabouts of his goods , for example , is now recognised as paramount . |
| 30 | Towards the end too , there is a long exhortation of the need to keep the sea , as the means of protecting England . |