Example sentences of "to keep [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A covered platform to keep off the worst excesses of the monsoon rain , a ticket office , and a large , bare waiting-room or shed with a stand-pipe outside were all that were provided . |
| 2 | ( There is presumably no reason IBM ca n't , like the services , make new offers to those it particularly wants to keep after the first time . ) |
| 3 | A matter I 'm obliged to keep in the strictest confidence , but It is , I can not stress too strongly , of the profoundest importance . ’ |
| 4 | Remember , thermal soaring is more about staying in the strongest area of lift than flying at an ‘ efficient ’ angle of bank ; it usually pays to turn steeply , as the small turning circle enables you to keep in the narrow cores of strong lift . |
| 5 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 6 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , here , you see , it takes all the running you can do , to keep in the same place . |
| 8 | The remittance basis is only applicable to Cases IV and V and capital gains tax and thus it is important to keep within the correct Case . |
| 9 | Use a separate mains socket for each lamp unit , and spread the electrical load over as many circuits as you can to keep within the current ratings . |
| 10 | Citing health service expenditure and public-sector salaries as major problems , the article suggested that a further package of economic measures would be necessary to enable the government to keep within the targeted budget deficit . |
| 11 | When considering how high to go , the limiting factor must be to keep within the realistic expectations of the buyer , otherwise he may not be willing to talk to the seller in the first place . |
| 12 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 13 | Her husband , looking hard at his glass , said : ‘ You ought to keep on the right side of her , any road . |
| 14 | But those wanting to keep on the right side of the law will have to steer clear of the grape . |
| 15 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that in practice it was sometimes difficult to keep to the logical distinctions described above . |
| 17 | The F-Plan calorie and fibre charts are the first charts to make it possible to keep to the correct number of calories and , at the same time , to choose the foods which will be of most help in making slimming both easier and speedier . |
| 18 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 19 | Go late if you want to keep to the right hand side of the course and early if you want to use the left hand side . |
| 20 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 21 | Your child ( or teenager ) fails to keep to the general rules of conduct you have insisted on . |
| 22 | Each sect accused the other of wishing to observe the prescribed religious festivals at the wrong times , although in practice they had to keep to the same dates . |
| 23 | For the pupils ( to keep to the same example ) , it is one gloriously stimulating hour in which they have the chance to pour out all that they have felt and discovered about The Prelude . |
| 24 | To keep to the same example , |
| 25 | As you do so , try as far as possible to keep to the basic sense of the passage . |
| 26 | The difference between Jarvefelt and , say , Peter Hall — who also likes to keep to the basic narrative — was that Jarvefelt was innocent , cool and sober . |
| 27 | The package made a net adjustment of L14,200,000 million ( approximately US$10,500 million ) , including some increased indirect taxes and cuts in public expenditure , in order to keep to the budgeted deficit for 1991 of L132,000,000 million . |
| 28 | So , if I lose a stone , I need to eat 200–300 fewer calories a day for the rest of my life , just to keep at the same weight . |