Example sentences of "[noun pl] may be kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining that pension books may be kept and used by residents themselves if they wish . |
| 2 | Wild mice may be kept and bred in standard mouse cages , but one must remember their jumping ability . |
| 3 | NHS costs may be kept under control because of both the NHS 's ability to act as a bulk buyer of medicine supplies and the unlikelihood of competitive upward pressure on wage costs for health workers . |
| 4 | Even indifferent lawyers may be kept going by their clerk arranging for briefs to be passed to them from dud solicitors . |
| 5 | The hands may be kept busy so that the mind can reflect , and see the pattern inherent in the tangled mass of threads . |
| 6 | We are led to believe that ‘ lack of finance ’ is to blame yet we are told we are all paying an extra premium on the basic community charge in order that standards may be kept up . |