Example sentences of "[be] keeping [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although slated as a videodisc initiative , the early stages are keeping options open as far as possible and the project may ultimately be implemented using CD-ROMs or even CD-I discs . |
| 2 | PRICE rises are keeping customers away from pubs , according to a report by City analysts SG Warburg . |
| 3 | In particular that fireworks comply with the British Standard that people register that they are keeping fireworks retailers and wholesalers so that we can go and inspect the storage conditions er and that people obey the law by not selling fireworks to people under the age of sixteen . |
| 4 | For once , Happy Mondays are keeping schtum . |
| 5 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 6 | Back home at the family garage near Banbury , Richard and Thomas Tuthill are keeping things ticking over until their father returns for the big celebration . |
| 7 | Glad you are keeping chirpy . |
| 8 | ‘ You are up early , Dr Neil , and are keeping McAllister from her work . ’ |
| 9 | Farmers are keeping 2pc more breeding ewes . |
| 10 | If you are keeping ants ( Chapter 12 ) , put a stem or leaf bearing aphids in the ants ' feeding compartment . |
| 11 | Doctors are keeping Tim on the life support machine for 24 hours to make sure the drugs have worked out of his system and have not ruled out all hope . |
| 12 | The travellers have now left their sites in Milton Keynes … but police are keeping track of their movements in case they 're soon in a popsition to make an arrest . |
| 13 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 14 | Such a control group could also have been identified easily as all practices have been keeping records of their referrals for x ray examinations since the introduction of the new contract in April 1990 . |
| 15 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 16 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 17 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 18 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
| 19 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 20 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 21 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 22 | In the alley itself , Detective Gary Lomax had been keeping watch on the towering fire escape . |
| 23 | ‘ Mrs Choak , how long have you been keeping house for your brother ? ’ |
| 24 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 25 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 26 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 27 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 28 | When he had been keeping Desdemona company , awaiting Othello 's arrival from Venice , Iago had entertained them with impromptu ( and bitter ) rhymes , describing his imagination 's preliminary working ( the rhetorical process of inventio ) in these terms : Frieze is a coarse woollen cloth , birdlime a viscous stuff used to entangle : the destructive collocation of the two seems an apt metaphor for Iago 's ‘ invention ’ . |
| 29 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 30 | My only problem so far has been keeping track of who , exactly , in the Archives quotations is saying what . |