Example sentences of "[noun sg] keep up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 2 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 3 | At first light the Commandos are on the move again in an attempt to keep up with the retreating enemy . |
| 4 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 5 | Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure . |
| 6 | Entry is normally open to all who can demonstrate a capacity to keep up with the courses and to benefit from such study , regardless of age or background . |
| 7 | Quite a job to keep up with the crane . |
| 8 | Formalized procedures for monitoring publications are in place to keep up with the information explosion … . |
| 9 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 10 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 11 | A TEENAGER began a £135,000 credit fraud spree to keep up with the yuppie lifestyle of his workmates , a court was told yesterday . |
| 12 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 13 | Harry Hawke recalls that it was the aim of skinhead devotees of this music to keep up with the latest releases and consequently white-label , i.e. pre-release , copies of records were the mark of a skin who knew his music . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 15 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 16 | She approves of that , says it 's a good thing to keep up with the times . ’ |
| 17 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 18 | When Captain Maestrangelo got back to his office he realized he had eaten far too much too quickly in an effort to keep up with the Substitute . |
| 19 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 20 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
| 21 | With the verb help , the contrast between the two infinitives is harder to observe , as can be seen from ( 11 ) and ( 12 ) , where to keep and to explain could be substituted without altering their import to any significant degree : ( 11 ) Several photographs and charts of the galaxy help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion … |
| 22 | Mixed with an old-fashioned respect for education , this means that tens of thousands of new jobs have to be generated each year to keep up with the prodigious output of mothers and universities . |
| 23 | Some students were reduced to learning their work parrot-fashion in order to keep up to the standard , while at the same time lacking any real understanding of what they were taught . |
| 24 | The common thread running among many of the announcements was that companies were sprucing up their bus architectures in order to keep up with the faster processor and memory : Advanced Logic 's server features a new ‘ Quadflex ’ architecture using a 128-bit ASIC chip set and dual 64-bit buses . |
| 25 | If you work in the EFL profession , it is in your interest to keep up with the latest developments in the field . |
| 26 | They simply churned out dozens of reprints and impressions in a very short space of time to keep up with the ever growing demand by the Wallace clamouring public . |
| 27 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 28 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |