Example sentences of "is keep [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope your father is keeping well ? ’ |
| 2 | A survey by the Gloucester based ice cream company Walls shows that pocket money is keeping well ahead of inflation . |
| 3 | There has also , of course , got to be a practical value to the designs , and in Britain that practical value is keeping warm . |
| 4 | The biggest problem facing the Exiles management is keeping good players . |
| 5 | And for many in New York , it is a game show : in the Nineties the censorship debate is keeping contemporary art in the media spotlight , just as obscene auction prices did in the Eighties . |
| 6 | As far as R&D on defence is concerned , the Pentagon is keeping specific plans under its hat , though the administration 's budget makers emphasised new projects like the ‘ Peacekeeper ’ and Tomahawk and Trident II intercontinental ballistic missiles ; more money for the ‘ Stealth ’ bomber ; lasers and other satellite killers ; microelectronics ; and , of course , the MX missile . |
| 7 | The old man is keeping dry inside his shed . |
| 8 | While HP is keeping tight-lipped about what exactly it will be announcing , we understand there will be several new models at entry-level , mid-range and high-end price/performance points . |
| 9 | Subsequently we have reason to believe that he is keeping additional narcotics on the premises and we have a right to search your home without a warrant . ’ |
| 10 | Keith , the department head , is keeping quiet , but makes it plain that the second half of June is his , arguably having something to do with his secretary , Debbie , and a certain destination in Latin America . |
| 11 | Kiam is keeping quiet , but Chase Manhattan has confirmed it has been retained and that selling Remington is one of several possibilities under review . |
| 12 | Cissie Jordan has an illegitimate baby , but she is keeping quiet about the father . |
| 13 | But the inventor is keeping quiet about which one for fear of piracy . |
| 14 | Seminar participants learnt that in Hong Kong , political inertia accounts for the limited public influence in cable TV ( CATV ) , while in Korea , the government is keeping tight control on its own CATV networks . |
| 15 | A second example is keeping wild animals as pets . |
| 16 | According to the firm , the announcement has nothing to do with X-Windows whatsoever , which is why it is keeping stumm . |
| 17 | Whether camouflaged or not , the best way to remain unobserved is to keep still or move stealthily . |
| 18 | At 81 , and with winter approaching , Kathleen Blanchard knows how important it is to keep warm . |
| 19 | The main aim of the region 's governments , which control or own many of the airlines , is to keep international fares high enough to subsidise low domestic fares . |
| 20 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 21 | The challenge for museum curators and archaeologists in the 1990s is to keep abreast of them , and to exploit them to the full . |
| 22 | The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel . ’ |
| 23 | He said the military 's main task is to keep open main roads and supply routes , and that about 60,000 former guerrillas are acting as pro-government militias , helping the defence forces . |
| 24 | A long-held piece of advice to couples is to keep short accounts , and to get the differences sorted out right away . |
| 25 | Is not the essential difference between Government policies and those of the Opposition that the Government 's prime concern lies with patients ' interests , while Opposition Members ' prime concern is to keep happy the unions that pay and sponsor them ? |
| 26 | The way to overcome this problem is to keep strict controls on feeding and if necessary reduce the size and amount of bogwood used . |
| 27 | For Chipewyan literates , on the other hand , in situations where the relationship between the addresser and the addressee is unknown , the norm is to keep silent ( Scollen and Scollen , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The key to using this technique is to keep silent after you have asked for the order . |
| 29 | This argument presumed that only one person in the family was capable of cleaning ; furthermore , that the smaller a house is , the easier it is to keep clean . |
| 30 | Gee Bee A N901K is kept airworthy by the New England Air Museum . |