Example sentences of "to keep [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone was grave , but there was a twinkle in his eye as though , heaven forbid , he knew why she could n't seem to keep off the subject of his personal relationships . |
| 2 | Tolkien did right normally to avoid such allusions , to keep like the author of Beowulf to a middle path between Ingeld and Christ , between the Bible and pagan myth . |
| 3 | In February , after an exhausting series of tests , the doctor let us in on the secret my father strove to keep until the end of his life . |
| 4 | It is , however , something to keep in the back of your mind on a shoot , and if you intend to carry out a post-production edit , pace can be a major factor in determining how you organise the assembly of your shots . |
| 5 | Of course , it is necessary constantly to review policy and constantly to keep in the forefront of our thinking the need for the security forces and the police to have all the resources necessary to do the job that they do on behalf of all of us , the need for which has been so tragically illustrated again in the last 24 hours . |
| 6 | We expect you to keep within the framework of the general principles outlined in pages 23 and 24 . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) For failure to keep to the standard of skill and care of the |
| 8 | He briefed us , and asked us to keep to the paths of the ‘ visitors ’ trail' . |
| 9 | Pending IMO measures , all laden tankers are asked to keep to the middle of the two channels . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you to keep to the centre of the track . ’ |
| 11 | So as to keep to the order of the questions put by the national court in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) , I shall first consider the compatibility of the registration requirements with Community law , leaving aside any consideration relating to the Community system of fishing quotas . |
| 12 | The canal men at Gairlochy advised me to keep to the south-east of Loch Lochy and follow the disused rail track to Laggan instead of the forestry road on the other side . |
| 13 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 14 | Decision-making will not necessarily improve just because the information is available : it may be ignored as many managers will prefer to keep to the combination of intuition , experience and judgement to make decisions . |
| 15 | Jack took care to keep to the side of Monument Hill that was overgrown with a dense tangle of undergrowth and a little wood . |
| 16 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 17 | Nostalgia for secret quests , obsessions , purity , past promises to keep at the expense of present obligations , these should be confined to the realm of fiction , I thought . |
| 18 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |