Example sentences of "[am/are] often kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kundera asks us to join together two things that are often kept apart : lyrical effusions and public poetry . |
| 2 | Part of the answer is simply that until very recently , most chimpanzee research was done on captive animals , who lead a very boring life , are often kept apart from other members of their family , and have a constant abundance of food . |
| 3 | It concerns the relation between language and its users , and combines two categories which are often kept separate in functional models : the affective or emotive function ( communicating the speaker 's attitudes ) , and the directive function ( influencing the behaviour and attitudes of the hearer ) . |
| 4 | In the civilised West , pigs are often kept in the kind of compact packaging that they 'll still be in when they 're sausages and bacon . |
| 5 | A much quoted example is in Latin American cultures , where sales representatives are often kept waiting a long time for a business appointment ; in our culture this would be unorthodox , and at best it would be seen as being very bad mannered . |