Example sentences of "kept [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now a beautiful period residence , restored with great care and until recently kept as a private home . |
| 2 | Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret . |
| 3 | One of the two remaining ferry boats would be kept as a stand-by vessel and the other would be stripped of its engine and berthed at Canning Dock for possible shopping or leisure purposes . |
| 4 | It will definitely be kept as a single unit . ’ |
| 5 | Stenopus hispidus sometimes called the Boxing Shrimp , is far more aggressive towards its own kind and can only be kept as a single specimen or a matched pair . |
| 6 | A large Theraps species is a must for the community and they would recommend C. synspilus or C. nicaraguense as they are both relatively peaceful when kept as a single specimen . |
| 7 | Meg Dods ( The Cook 's and Housewife 's Manual , I 826 ) instructs that if this is to be kept as a cold relish the white meat and the coral and spawn should be packed " in a regular manner , in layers , or alternate pieces , so that when sliced it may have that marbled appearance , that look of mosaic work which so commends the taste of the cook " . |
| 8 | He had called to her in his dying moments , and she had thrown him a fragment of her white nightgown , which he had clasped with hope , and kissed , and kept as a precious icon . |
| 9 | One of the classic cases in Britain is Lady Park Wood , an ancient and very mixed coppice in the Wye valley , which has been kept as an unmanaged reserve for nearly half a century . |
| 10 | In a hospital or a bank , where records have to be kept for a long time , the files would not be deleted routinely , but stored in archives until the expiry of the prescribed storage period . |
| 11 | Only a small minority of the wines are kept for a long time as vintage wines . |
| 12 | The cost need not be very high and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that the finished result will be kept for a long time , if not forever , by the recipient . |
| 13 | Passenger manifests are kept for a long time . |
| 14 | These can be kept for a long time and are likely to breed . |
| 15 | If an experiment produces animals that are to be kept for a long period , or that are to form the basis of a breeding colony . |
| 16 | These records are kept for a two-year period only , within which time some 40,000 issues are made . |
| 17 | The spread nuclei can be simply stained in acetic orcein ( Gurr ) under a coverslip and if the staining is slow , or the slides are to be kept for a short time , the coverslips can be ringed with rubber solution ( Weldtite ) to prevent the stain drying out . |
| 18 | Log files are kept for every log-in session for every student management system user . |
| 19 | It was kept for the finished film . |
| 20 | He is kept under a wholesome course of discipline by Lavinia and her august mamma . |
| 21 | The question of equipment failures becomes most important when goldfish are kept under an intensive system . |
| 22 | Price 's candles to fill the candelabra are kept with the dry stores in the cellars . |
| 23 | The budget kept within the overall expenditure limit set in 1988 , and provided for an 11.3 per cent increase in expenditure to ECU65,200 million , as compared with a rise of 19 per cent budgeted for 1991 . |
| 24 | He is a prolific inventor who helped to start the environmental revolution and , as a result of work undertaken for NASA , studied the conditions necessary for the continued existence of life and found that the Earth constituted a self-regulatory system whereby each of the many variable factors , such as temperature and the composition of air , sea and soil , had been kept within the narrow limits necessary for life to survive for the entire history of the planet . |
| 25 | Naturally , such matters were kept from a little girl ; there was only the squalling of the new baby upstairs , the coming and going of a starched nurse , the funeral — the black ostrich feathers on the horses ’ heads intrigued Dinah , who felt no grief at all for the occasionally met-with , plaintive lady who had , as they put it , passed away — and the sound of one 's own voice , strong and resonant in the empty room . |
| 26 | Has this extensive network of connections nothing to do with the way contentious issues like discrimination against women or minorities pollution , state welfare , or housing costs were kept from the political agenda for so long ? |
| 27 | The extent of the disaster was kept from the remaining drivers , particularly Levagh 's team-mates Moss and Fangio but at two o'clock in the morning , orders were received by the Mercedes team-manager Alfred Neubauer , direct from the German factory , to pull all their cars out of the race . |
| 28 | Terrorist groups , kept from the nuclear game by their lack of industrial infrastructure , could become players . |
| 29 | The water hawthorn , Aponogeton distachyus , will grow if sown straight away or if kept until the following year , but loses its viability if allowed to dry out completely . |
| 30 | Excess vegetable matter can be usefully kept in a separate waste-bin to form a compost which will keep garden and flowers in a good healthy condition — help and information on making your own compost from Friends of the Earth , Bradbury Buildings , Bradbury Place , Belfast 7 or telephone ( 0232 ) 311555 . |