Example sentences of "keep up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 2 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 3 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |
| 4 | So an important thing is being aware , keeping up with the news ? |
| 5 | There are other cases where such trusts are in danger of becoming sleepy animals , only barely keeping up with the minimum requirement to provide public access . |
| 6 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Keeping up with the latest hair trends as ever , Wella has just introduced Hair Sets in three variants . |
| 9 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 10 | ‘ Got your arses whipped in Nicaragua , and now you 've lost it all in bloody buggering Arizona , ’ Jitters shouted , keeping up with the broken American . |
| 11 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 12 | It was comparatively easy for them to follow courses on particular aircraft types or their engines ( which were mostly civil versions of military aircraft engines anyway ) to ensure that the engineering side of AIB was also keeping up with the times . |
| 13 | If anything , hardware is n't keeping up with the demands of the kinds of software he 'd like to see . |
| 14 | But while you 're keeping up with the latest ‘ squirrel-proof ’ bird feeders and designer nest-boxes , do keep a critical eye open , too . |
| 15 | And as the dignitaries stiffly walked towards their jeeps and their ride home we prepared again for battle : to film , photograph , and record sound , while keeping up with the uproarious final procession to the cliffs . |
| 16 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 17 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 18 | Keeping up with the Joneses |
| 19 | Obviously we were n't keeping up with the Joneses , so she started screwing the boss . ’ |
| 20 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 21 | Keeping up with the pace of change |
| 22 | We rarely get out at night , because keeping up with the little fella leaves us dog-tired . |
| 23 | He freely admits the increasing extravagance of the average suburban wedding has more to do with keeping up with the girl in the semi next door than sticking to tradition . |
| 24 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 25 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 26 | When that happened , we could n't keep up with the mortgage payments so we lost the house . ’ |
| 27 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 28 | Motoring : Can R-R keep up with the times ? |
| 29 | ‘ They can certainly keep up with the traffic , and have a fair turn of performance . ’ |
| 30 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |