Example sentences of "keep up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
2 | And if Liz does steer the fastest line , she 'll be keeping up a recent Oxford tradition . |
3 | Colonials keeping up a good show , ignoring the riotous jungle around them . |
4 | Usually rather subdued piping or twittering calls , flocks often keeping up a conversational twitter . |
5 | This superb sum was the result of members and friends keeping up a daily supply of super baking . |
6 | She had been writing poems since her childhood , and at university was busy with poems , stories , editing the Smith Review , keeping up a high academic standard , and leading a full social life . |
7 | ‘ Even from the outside it looks cosy , ’ Paula observed , keeping up a cheerful note . |
8 | This time he 's a cyclist he 's a racing cyclist and he 's keeping up a steady twenty . |
9 | With a deep breath , Ace slipped out from behind the rocks , and ran in a crouch down the length of the wall , keeping up a steady rate of fire from her gun . |
10 | But it quickly re-formed in 1897 to challenge fresh regulationism introduced into India , keeping up a constant barrage of propaganda against any return to compulsory medical inspection and detention of prostitutes at home . |
11 | Cook drove clumsily , keeping up a constant stream of chatter . |
12 | She chatted on , keeping up a constant barrier between them , all the way out to the car park , and when she was securely belted into the passenger-seat she fiddled with her gloves and gave a deliberate yawn . |
13 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
14 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
15 | Keeping up the good old traditions . |
16 | Keeping up the good work , they are now holding meetings and demonstrations every six weeks to motivate young people coming into the industry . |
17 | Even if this were n't so , there would probably be good economic reasons for not keeping up the maximum pulse rate all the time . |
18 | There are still a great many old-stagers who still insist on keeping up the old style — 13th January . |
19 | The soft drinks sellers tapped out rhythms on the sides of their coolers with bottle-openers , keeping up an incessant chant of Peps , Peps , Peps , although Pepsi was the one drink that none of them had . |
20 | Consistently keeping up an outward appearance of beauty can be a strain , and even a repression of other forces which need expression . |
21 | To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin . |
22 | It is not suggested that the teacher should keep up a non-stop commentary or continually repeat the children 's answers and comments for the benefit of the rest of the group . |
23 | Do n't keep up a running commentary . |
24 | In Moscow yesterday Mr Yeltsin — whose mother died at the weekend — stayed out of public view for the second day , letting his aides keep up the political pressure . |
25 | Please do keep up the good work . |
26 | However , Wanderers are true amateurs on the field and will no doubt battle until they give up , so let's hope Athletico can keep up the good work and send them home with three lost points and the Samaritans ’ telephone number . |
27 | I 'll try and keep up the good work . ’ |
28 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |
29 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
30 | For their debut album ‘ Ireland 's Dancing Days ’ is released today and will keep up the harmonious accordion tradition — on the Emerald label . |