Example sentences of "kept up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses . |
| 2 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |
| 3 | By many similar experiments , I have since proved that a free communication of the limpid fluid , which the canal contains , is kept up between the brain and the whole extent of spinal marrow . |
| 4 | Ted 's monologue was kept up against the background sounds of the creaking of leather upon leather and the calls of the woodland birds . |
| 5 | The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab . |