Example sentences of "to be kept [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 3 | Prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive Terry Aston said the oil in the storage tanks was meant to be kept at a safe temperature of 40 degrees centigrade . |
| 4 | As a result US interest rates had to be kept at a high level . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , people in this room are sitting around relaxing ; they are n't bustling about generating their own heat so the atmosphere around them needs to be kept at a comfortable temperature . |
| 6 | These parts are , at best , inefficient in a P-40 and the result is overheating so their taxi time has to be kept to an absolute minimum . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 30–3–1885 " Four minutes in reference to the case of Dugald Campbell and Mr Alex McConnely and relative papers are ordered to be kept in a separate record . " |
| 11 | All premises within the scope of the 1963 Act are required to be kept in a clean state . |
| 12 | All the commonly-kept leather corals harbour symbiotic algae ( zooxanthellae ) in their tissues , and thus need to be kept in a brightly-lit aquarium . |