Example sentences of "keep up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | you know , I mean if if you were self-employed like that if you do n't keep up the standard and |
| 32 | You do in a swimming pool because what happens to you , it makes you keep up the top does n't it ? |
| 33 | However frustrating , Labour leaders must keep up the attack to put Britain back to work . |
| 34 | Mr Baker must keep up the peacemaking . |
| 35 | Do you think you can keep up the patter ? ’ |
| 36 | However they said they would continue insisting on an 8pm bedtime and they would keep up the bedtime stories . |
| 37 | And the brothel-owners paid for the restoration of village temples and schools to help keep up the supply of young girls . |
| 38 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 39 | We can keep up the pressure for more treaties just as public pressure led to the signing of the INF treaty in 1987 . |
| 40 | A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily . |
| 41 | We shall certainly keep up the pressure to achieve that , in the interests of Swan Hunter and many other fine firms in the United Kingdom . |
| 42 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |
| 43 | If we do n't keep up the pressure , their pensions will be reduced . |
| 44 | ‘ I will constantly keep up the pressure to identify the murderer of L/Cpl Edwards . |
| 45 | Must keep up the family tradition you know . |
| 46 | But he perked up quickly and promised : ‘ We will keep up the argument . ’ |
| 47 | It 'll keep up the demand for English actors . |
| 48 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 49 | In my personal opinion I prefer the original ending because it keeps up the style and tone of the rest of the novel and also keeps the characters the same . |
| 50 | DELL KEEPS UP THE PRESSURE |
| 51 | And although the voices from the heartland are reluctant to intervene anywhere , and Congress is at sea , the press keeps up the pressure , pointing to the moral responsibility of solo superpowers to act , and the shame of dragging feet . |
| 52 | But director John Badham keeps up the momentum successfully , carrying the action all the way to an improbably happy end . |
| 53 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 54 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 55 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 56 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 57 | Productivity has been maintained , as far as possible , by the increasing use of artificial fertilizers , but it has proved very difficult to keep up the humus level on which a good soil structure depends . |
| 58 | And Mr Major was determined to keep up the morale . |
| 59 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 60 | How to keep up the colour ? |