Example sentences of "keep up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Keeping up to date , helping to improve skills for the off-farm job , and making contact with other farmers were other minor responses .
2 Radio Rentals take a pride in keeping up to date with new broadcasting technology .
3 For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes .
4 ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire .
5 She can give him chapter and verse on Finance Acts and other current legislation , and is rigorous in keeping up to date .
6 Having an overview also means being in the picture about your role and those of your subordinates and superiors in the company , about your company 's profile in the larger comparative corporate picture , and keeping up to date with all that 's new in your business or profession through professional organisations , the trade press and national newspapers .
7 Keeping up to date with developments in your own specialty can go a long way to adding to your confidence .
8 If you have another part-time job , or domestic commitments , then bank nursing can be a very flexible way of keeping up to date professionally .
9 In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures .
10 As time passes , it becomes harder for workers to shift , but it is just a matter of absorption and keeping up to date , ’ he says .
11 The bar chart , built up as you go , shows you how you are keeping up to programme and teaches you about the idiosyncrasies of bar charts !
12 At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work .
13 What is our mechanism for keeping up to date ?
14 By contrast , general purposive browsing describes the academic researcher who indulges in a similar activity of looking over books but with a serious purpose in mind , such as keeping up to date in his field or looking for new ideas .
15 If you work as an in-house solicitor , you will have responsibility for drafting and keeping up to date standard contract documents for use by your employer in the main business — from simple invoice terms and conditions of sale or purchase to those suitable for major projects and transactions and non-standard contracts for individual or complicated projects .
16 With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today .
17 Four activities , in , matter : the way in which teaching and learning are conducted , keeping up to date in a subject , applying a new technology and managing the sequence of review , improvement and change .
18 The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession .
19 Keeping up to date with the latest product developments can be a full time job , particularly in the scientific world .
20 That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice .
21 It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark .
22 Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward .
23 Someone who most certainly will not be having trouble keeping up with his mortgage repayments is Lord Hanson , chairman of the industrial conglomerate Hanson .
24 Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country
25 Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ .
26 Many of the eastern European countries have their own banknote printers which are hard at work keeping up with inflation , but several , such as former Soviet states , the Baltics , Albania and Bulgaria might turn to the West for their own cash as well as hard currency .
27 ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music .
28 So an important thing is being aware , keeping up with the news ?
29 There are other cases where such trusts are in danger of becoming sleepy animals , only barely keeping up with the minimum requirement to provide public access .
30 But gradually in the l950s and 1960s it became clear that , though the economy had grown considerably since 1945 , the UK was not keeping up with its rivals abroad .
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