Example sentences of "[adv] to keep [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector , seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control . |
| 2 | Modern exponents of this ideal include Anne Faraday and Paul Garfield , whose books encourage the reader not only to keep dream diaries but to attempt to alter their dreams . |
| 3 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 4 | It was bad enough that she should have to accept Ian 's help with farm work , but that was necessary , if only to keep Joanna happy . |
| 5 | And as we have already noted , many male workers , especially in " skilled " occupations , were committed to the notion of a male " family wage " high enough to keep wife and children . |
| 6 | They were eminently suited to the work and knew their ship and its equipment well enough to keep things going which also suited the administration at Headquarters . |
| 7 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 8 | This is the question in all markets : whether the cake as a whole will grow fast enough to keep London 's absolute volume of business growing . |
| 9 | This system of local government had much fine work to its credit but it was generally accepted that its structure had not changed enough to keep pace with the changing social pattern of travel to work , shopping and holiday areas . |
| 10 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 11 | Your pool will be big enough to keep Koi , and given the right conditions , there is no reason why they should not breed . |
| 12 | But a jackpot of £2,350,000 was not enough to keep Kirkley in a job . |
| 13 | But both polar regions support vegetation and land fauna that are well adapted to their environments ( Chapter 6 ) and varied enough to keep generations of ecologists interested in them . |
| 14 | Although some popular sentiment may go Mr Hussein 's way , both regimes are efficiently repressive enough to keep public opinion buttoned up . |
| 15 | This was n't the sort of international work done in the European branch of security services , which is known as Section A. But it was glamorous enough to keep Dirk Coetzee happy for a while . |
| 16 | By last Tuesday night , the Conservative chairman , Chris Patten , presented to the Prime Minister the worst case envisaged by party researchers : 305 seats held , enough to keep power in a hung parliament . |
| 17 | We must all fight together to keep thet |
| 18 | There was a long table of scrubbed pine with a tablecloth ( splashed with russet chrysanthemums , the sort of tablecloth you see through the windows of other people 's houses as you walk by at teatime ) folded back to cover crockery set out ready for breakfast , perhaps to keep mice from dirtying the cups . |
| 19 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Spray roses in pots with water daily to keep humidity up ; watch out for greenfly and other pests . |
| 21 | Information in the Bulletin comes from a wide range of publications which are scanned daily to keep readers up-to-date . |
| 22 | Secure them to carpet with gripper tape or use the sticky weave that is sold especially to keep rugs in place . |
| 23 | William walked swiftly to keep stride with Hari . |
| 24 | At a simpler level parents can be reminded not to keep biscuits and sweets in the house as it is easier to say ‘ no ’ to a whining child if the foods are not easily accessible . |
| 25 | The talk on Tyneside yesterday was whether United got it right when they chose not to keep Jan Eriksson , the Sweden and Norrkoping defender who headed the opening goal of the European Championships on Wednesday night . |
| 26 | And one detects some shaking of heads over the committee 's decision not to keep Mark Davies . |
| 27 | Its official purpose was not to keep East Germans in but ‘ revanchist ’ West Germans out . |
| 28 | There is a history of heart disease in her family so Doc D gets her cholesterol checked every now and then and they make it a policy not to keep cheese in the house . |
| 29 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 30 | Like many old people he ignored advice not to keep cash in his home . |