Example sentences of "to keep up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that there was no need to keep up the charade of being in love he 'd taken his things along to his old room in another wing . |
| 2 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 3 | If Vecchi killed Mahoney , as seemed fairly certain , he 'd already got hold of whatever was necessary to keep up the blackmail of Laura Channing . |
| 4 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 5 | He hurried back to the hotel , trying to rush but also to keep up the appearance of quiet dignity his employers would expect of him . |
| 6 | It would be difficult to keep up the momentum of its campaign and in addition it had created tensions within the two organisations from which most of its members came , the NILP and the republican movement . |
| 7 | There are other problems also : one is how to overcome the environmental objections and the contracting and technical failures which have so far stunted the growth of nuclear power in the UK , and another is how to keep up the momentum of conservation ( or energy efficiency improvements ) in the absence of the price increases which have proved the prime motivation towards energy saving . |
| 8 | Canvassing is undertaken to keep up the spirits of the candidate . |
| 9 | To limit the posterns of the court to a single ingress and to keep up the stock of horses , swans and bees . |