Example sentences of "keep [art] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) ( a ) The justices were under a duty to determine whether any relevant criteria for keeping the child in secure accommodation were satisfied , pursuant to section 25(3) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 2 | ‘ Keeping the rest to clean your teeth ? ’ nudges Doctor Whistler , pointing to my depleted bottle of mineral water . |
| 3 | Not only are they one of the best campaigning organisations around , keeping the welfare of British birds well up on the conservation agenda , their quarterly magazine is full of interesting information on different species as well as tips on the best places to go . |
| 4 | A lot of our time is spent generally keeping the reserve in good order — carrying out repairs such as painting and fencing , controlling bracken , mending boats and tractors and improving the standards of accommodation . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's just keeping the answerphone on full time . ’ |
| 6 | A company partner , 33-year-old Anthony Edwards , appeared before the court and pleaded guilty to keeping the vehicle with defective tyres and without an MoT certificate . |
| 7 | Keeping the principle of coterminous boundaries meant 90 health authorities , varying widely in population size . |
| 8 | The segregated education system is geared to keeping the majority of black people in subordination , while health and housing conditions are poor and , most importantly , black people have been deprived of political and human rights . |
| 9 | Instead he found mighty walled cities and disciplined armies , capable of subjugating the Orcs and keeping the peace over huge stretches of territory . |
| 10 | The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans . |
| 11 | An attempt to bring the imam of Yemen into alliance was vetoed by India , but he played tribal politics better than the craftiest of sheikhs , cheaply keeping the peace with well-placed bribes . |
| 12 | In the Allotment , by keeping the wall at close range , a line of potholes will be seen , the most significant of these being juniper Gulf which descends for over 400 feet . |
| 13 | This has resulted in improved borehole conditions enabling the recording of greatly superior quality of log information ; a dolomite mud has been particularly successful in keeping the borehole in perfect shape . |
| 14 | It 's reckoned to be the best method yet devised of keeping the body in good condition . |
| 15 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 16 | Pain can be controlled through a variety of drugs and by keeping the mind on other things . |
| 17 | On its own terms , his argument is virtually irrefutable : since grandeur was not a definable objective so much as a means of keeping the flame of national ambition alight , it could never really fail . |
| 18 | The National Gallery has received 150 restitution claims to date , half of which have been satisfied , the rest deferred following negotiations , by keeping the item on long-term loan . |
| 19 | Some kind soul had just been keeping the garden under reasonable control — that was all . |
| 20 | They were conscious of a tall man in the habit of a friar keeping a crew of ragged rascals at bay with his staff . |
| 21 | … ( 3 ) It shall be the duty of a court hearing an application under this section to determine whether any relevant criteria for keeping a child in secure accommodation are satisfied in his case . |
| 22 | While most would agree that the protection of food against microbial activity and so on is essential , keeping a check on possible human reactions is what this database is mainly about . |
| 23 | Nurse Neil McGregor was keeping a watch on patient Michael Robinson when Sigsworth , of Melbourne House , Middlesbrough , got up and went into the day room . |
| 24 | The most convenient method of keeping a note of important individuals and terminology is a card file or index . |
| 25 | If you are working on a project with all of the relevant files stored in a single directory there is a fairly simple way of keeping a set of historical backups . |
| 26 | Many horses which ‘ have ’ to be kept stabled can be helped by visual and tactile communication ( a stable companion , or a hole knocked through partition walls ) , more bulk in their food , or food which takes more work to eat ( turnips , or small-mesh hay-nets ) , the provision of a playpen outside , and the realisation by the owner that keeping an animal in stressful conditions amounts , quite simply , to cruelty . |
| 27 | Besides monitoring the EC proposals , Mr Eggar is also keeping an eye on other government departments which he said had the tendency to introduce measures which , however well intentioned , could have the effect of strangling small businesses . |
| 28 | However , we must keep the influence of socio-economic origins or social class in perspective . |
| 29 | They also contain a built-in moisturiser to help keep the skin in good condition . |
| 30 | The attempts failed , but they helped keep the issue of electoral reform on the agenda of political debate . |