Example sentences of "[adj] by keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think that you 're more likely to keep the price of your house high by keeping blacks out , then you 'd be likely to go for that . |
| 2 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 3 | They talked about how to write The Yellow Chair , whether to make it stark and classical by keeping the unities , restricting the action to the terrible days of the battle with Gauguin , or whether to make it episodic and epic , to introduce Theo at least and maybe other figures , even the looming pastor from Nuenen . |
| 4 | if they 're keeping the politicians happy by keep the trou civilianising troops from the ground nobody looks at those at the top |
| 5 | Anyone who became insolvent by keeping no books , never taking stock and going on year after year without knowing how their affairs stood , was like a child at school who found to his surprise that he had but one halfpenny left in his pocket . |
| 6 | Twenty four girls at the Southampton 1st Woolston ( St Mark 's ) Brownie Pack discovered for themselves that silence is golden by keeping absolutely quiet for half-an-hour and earning £200 from sponsors . |