Example sentences of "have kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the incipient spin has progressed for more than about half a turn because the pilot has kept the stick back , applying the full opposite rudder must be a good thing because it helps to stop the rotation and to even up the stalling of the wings . |
| 2 | Bayley is a senior academic who has kept his distance from institutional pressures and writes in the manner of the traditional man of letters . |
| 3 | This one , like all the others , shows that Ray has kept his eyes open . |
| 4 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
| 5 | He has kept his day job . |
| 6 | It is not just their passionate hatred of the Vietnamese that has kept the Khmer Rouge together in the malarial jungles for 10 years . |
| 7 | Victoria Wine Chablis 1987 , £6.39 ; this too has kept its crisp , nutty , lemony character . |
| 8 | The one piece upper has kept my feet dry even when walking through peat bogs . |
| 9 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 10 | The aristocracy has kept a tight grip on ‘ the sport of kings ’ and the British royal family have kept a close eye on the Turf — the present Queen is a fine judge of a horse . |
| 11 | Sir Richard Body , a farmer who has kept pigs himself for many years , explained that he intends to press on with his Private Member 's Bill since it would phase out the sow stalls within five years instead of the Minister 's eight years . |
| 12 | Lord Young declined to comment on the revelations contained in the memorandum or the confirmation by Sir Peter Gregson , permanent secretary at the DTI , that Britain has kept the deal secret because ‘ it would severely damage our relations with the European Commission ’ . |
| 13 | His subsequent career in equipment and clothing has kept him in close touch with needs , and there is no PE jargon in his down-to-earth advice . |
| 14 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |
| 15 | The yanks are castigated for their heartless reaction to the deaths of civilians in Baghdad ( ‘ the manner of the American military 's response betrays something about its values , ’ opined Britain 's Independent on Sunday ) and mocked for the fear of terrorism that has kept them away from Europe — thus cruelly hurting Europe 's tourist business . |
| 16 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 17 | Without some clear thinking about what Europeans and Americans still need from one another , the transatlantic partnership that has kept Europe safe for half a century will break apart . |
| 18 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 19 | The government in Moscow persistently denies that any such plans exist , but the arrival over the past year of some 20,000 Germans from Kazakhstan has kept the rumours alive . |
| 20 | But at least the new developments should ease the diplomatic impasse that has kept relations between Japan and the Soviet Union frozen for 46 years . |
| 21 | It is a remarkable sign of mollycoddling that racing has kept its levy at all . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Mr Welch is routinely cited as one of America 's best businessmen , mainly because he has kept GE 's huge juggernaut performing well while others have foundered . |
| 23 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 24 | As it says in the Torah : ‘ More than the Jews have kept the Torah , the Torah has kept the Jews . ’ |
| 25 | Other countries , including West Germany and Japan , are following , and the UK is a world leader in research , though our country 's usual secrecy has kept it out of the headlines . |
| 26 | Taking its impetus from the alleged crash of a flying saucer at Roswell in 1947 and the supposed recovery of alien bodies , this is the theory that the US government has been in contact with aliens for years , but has kept it secret . |
| 27 | As I write this I realize at last why it is that her face has kept coming to me in this room . |
| 28 | Kylie — one of the world 's most travelled 21-year-olds — has kept secret a phobia which has always haunted her . |
| 29 | FOR months , Wall Street has kept near its record high despite worries that the broader economic recovery might not arrive . |
| 30 | Several directors are believed to be unhappy that he has kept details of the negotiations from them . |