Example sentences of "[noun pl] keep a [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new economic programmes are muddled compromises between the ambitions of growth-seeking reformers in the coastal provinces and the desperate efforts by Beijing 's central planners to keep a grip on the economy . |
| 2 | These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’ |
| 3 | In addition , there are pressures on companies to keep a check on the growth of fixed working capital in stocks and intermediate stores ( work-in-progress ) . |
| 4 | Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on . |
| 5 | He despatched various officers to villages north of the Thames , and local PCs kept an eye on the sparse river crossings in case James should double back into Berkshire . |
| 6 | Lucy Lane was assigned to the bookshop ; among other things to keep an eye on the opening of the safe . |
| 7 | Watching and waiting — the police keeping an eye on the hippies . |