Example sentences of "[prep] be kept [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the proceedings of the group need to be kept confidential , other members of staff may need to be informed if there is distress in the group ( Cooper , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | It was plain that the document as whole was intended to be kept confidential by the plaintiffs and that this fact was firmly impressed upon anyone who had anything to do with it . |
| 3 | S.202B , introduced by s.110 of the Civic Government ( Scotland ) Act 1982 , provides for a register of bye-laws to be kept available for inspection . |
| 4 | It can complicate the management of in-patients beds if beds have to be kept available to accommodate persons on leave of absence who may relapse and require urgent readmission and it can distort the patient statistics . |
| 5 | You will need a great deal of paper if your notes are to be kept useful . |
| 6 | Respondents wanted the office to be kept tidy and records well organised , and no-smoking areas allocated . |
| 7 | The whole of the following morning was spent gardening and weeding in the area in front of the building ; there was the gravel to be raked and the flowerbeds to be kept tidy . |
| 8 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
| 9 | Information for those who wish to return , for those who may return at some future date , and those who just wish to be kept abreast of developments should be incorporated . |
| 10 | I would not like to be kept alive by a machine , like a vegetable , day in day out , she had once decided , I would prefer to accept my appointed day . |
| 11 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 12 | If the calf was to be kept alive the course of action was clear and time was critical . |
| 13 | If this is true , it is the more important that active approaches and positive attitudes prevail , if enjoyment in books is to be kept alive in the face of more passive forms of entertainment . |
| 14 | ‘ Is it compassionate for a person to be kept alive with tubes going into their stomach ? |
| 15 | You are to be kept alive . |
| 16 | You are to be kept alive . ’ |
| 17 | Cruzan 's parents contended that their daughter would not wish to be kept alive in her present state and argued for the right to end her life . |
| 18 | By contrast , in 587 Rauching was in alliance with Chlothar 's followers and hostile to Childebert : Guntram was to be kept neutral . |
| 19 | In no way did we want a union type association , it was all to be kept low key and friendly , which suited both ourselves and our administration , for we already had an official union which catered for the needs of the Customs and Excise in general . |
| 20 | A strong pound has been seen as essential if inflation is to be kept low . |
| 21 | For 90° corners where resistance needs to be kept low or to reduce noise . |
| 22 | For the time being , the dogs were still to be kept separate at night , when left at home alone , or unsupervised . |
| 23 | They also called for pension assets to be kept separate from company funds in the wake of the Daily Mirror scandal when Maxwell stole Pounds 400 million from his pensioners . |
| 24 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 25 | He knows it 's got to be kept separate from the other . |
| 26 | A variety of EC directives have meant that the listing requirements for the Third market are now very similar to those of the USM and there was no clear rationale for them to be kept separate . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm tired , and I do n't want to be kept awake . ’ |
| 28 | It takes months of painstaking work to grow the perfect orchid , and the potential prizewinners have to be kept cool and dark to stop them fading . |
| 29 | He has encouraged me to reapply to the Government Information service to be kept apprised in case the two departures from the Scottish office , one gone and one going December , mean there may be a vacancy . |
| 30 | They should eat a proper breakfast and supper as well , though , since the meals have to be kept hot en route to the recipients and some of their original vitamin content can be lost . |