Example sentences of "to keep up with [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So , if a woman tries to keep up with a man , drink for drink , she is likely to feel the effects of alcohol sooner .
2 On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane .
3 Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they develop .
4 Outliners have developed nicely over recent years and this program is sure to keep up with the trends as they change .
5 erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses .
6 The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times .
7 Yes , you have to keep up with the times , but it 's about as hop and happening as Liverpool 's away kit — and as clear as the sprites on Shadow Warriors !
8 She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’
9 The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation .
10 Alison Norman in her challenging discussion paper suggests very basic origins for ageism : ‘ We have , after all , an animal inheritance and it is animal instinct to challenge and destroy the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail and to abandon to their fate animals which are too weak to keep up with the rest . ’
11 Quite a job to keep up with the crane .
12 Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ .
13 Or should it seek weaker competitors or new entrants who are often more accommodating to local policy , but may lack the resources to keep up with the pace of change ?
14 During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace .
15 We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent .
16 Nicholson became a member of an elite group of chemists — the B-Club — in whose company he was able to keep up with the activities of Hofmann and his associates .
17 In Les Patineurs and Les Rendezvous Ashton makes his dancers travel upwards as well in an effort to show off their abilities to keep up with the music and beat each other to the exit .
18 A TEENAGER began a £135,000 credit fraud spree to keep up with the yuppie lifestyle of his workmates , a court was told yesterday .
19 Nutty found both the running and swimming hard , but had no option but to keep up with the boys .
20 The baby is able to walk after an hour and to keep up with the herd when it is on the move , but it is nonetheless very unsteady on its feet and needs continual help .
21 They need a good result tomorrow to keep up with the promotion chase .
22 In Taiwan , though , which likes to keep up with the West , there is a growing feeling that smoking should not be encouraged .
23 One legitimate reason for panning is to follow the action ; shots of beach football , for example , will need to pan to keep up with the play .
24 Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis .
25 Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ?
26 I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total .
27 This deviation from Beveridge 's plan made the scheme expensive to general taxation , and probably tended to prevent the adoption of benefit levels sufficient to provide subsistence incomes to those with no other resources and to inhibit subsequent increases to keep up with the cost of living .
28 During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six .
29 Dad , as a master-tailor during the '14 –'18; war , had a War Department contract for army uniforms , and so we were able to keep up with the Jones 's ( or should I say , the Cohens ? ) .
30 He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty .
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