Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] keep [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only those manufacturing steps that involve trade secrets are kept in-house . |
| 2 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 3 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 4 | After completion of assessment , cases are kept open , though with fewer re-assessment episodes , and of those which are closed there are relatively few re-referrals . |
| 5 | FRENCH courts are kept busy by rugby players . |
| 6 | Cos presumably , when you look at the layout most of the signs are keep left signs . |
| 7 | Of course , there are some good ones and they must have someone to see that the animals are kept healthy . ’ |
| 8 | Each users entries are kept separate from the others and can be password protected to prevent anyone else from peeking . |
| 9 | The main advantage of the Laspeyres index is that the quantity weights are kept constant period after period : this means that the costs of constructing the index are kept low since new weights do not have to be estimated every period . |
| 10 | The puppets are coloured grey to indicate that AIDS has no colour bias and the performances are kept humourous and light-hearted while conveying their serious subject matter . |
| 11 | The Labour party in this county , values the role of small rural schools , but we are not prepared to see urban schools suffer to make sure that urb , rural schools are kept open for the sake of being kept open . |
| 12 | With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits . |
| 13 | Shapes are kept simple — shirts and T-shirts — and fabrics are pure cotton or silk . |
| 14 | In spite of fears about the use of the hormone , the names of the farms taking part in the trials are kept secret , and their milk is fed into the public supply . |
| 15 | Most batteries involve an assault , and the tendency is to refer generically to ‘ assaults ’ , but the exposition of the law is clearer if the two offences are kept separate . |
| 16 | FEW company directors are keeping quiet about their political affiliations in the run up to the General Election . |
| 17 | One of his last poems , " The Cultivation of Christmas Trees " , was published in the autumn as part of the Faber " Ariel " series : it is a poem in which the memories of childhood Christmases are kept alive through the experience of age and weariness , both the beginning and end of life coming together in the fear and love of God . |
| 18 | Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world 's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites . |
| 19 | It is essential that anaesthetized mice are kept warm on a heated pad under a light or preferably in an incubator until they recover consciousness . |
| 20 | Washing machines and dryers are kept busy for the rest of the day and much of the night . |
| 21 | Glass bottles and jars can be recycled very easily , provided the three colours are kept separate . |
| 22 | Hence managers choose carefully a position for their factory , so that transport costs are kept low . |
| 23 | The number of people seen is high — up to 100 patients a day — thus ensuring that unit costs are kept low . |
| 24 | All the active plant will be kept on a ‘ care and maintenance ’ regime for approximately 30 years , i.e. buildings are kept weathertight structures are preserved , and any loose contamination will be fixed or removed . |
| 25 | The Bill proposes that hoards be kept intact and that the practise of paying the full market value of the objects to the finder should be extended to the entire hoard . |
| 26 | Transatlantic tourists and suburban groupies may be willing to fork out the £1 cover charge for sporadic glimpses of Michael Caine and Jason Donovan , but grown-ups are kept loyal by cooking that is honest and robust and hardly ever hiccups in spite of turning over almost as many portions as Ramsden 's . |
| 27 | All surveys are kept secret . |
| 28 | Other than that , the specified light gauge ( 40–105 ) strings are kept taut at either end of the bass by Schaller 's finest . |
| 29 | Otherwise they are syphoned off into mysterious Liechtenstein trusts , or are invested in companies whose identities are kept secret . |
| 30 | And Mr Heseltine said : ‘ Our priorities are to keep public expenditure under control . ’ |