Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be kept " in BNC.

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1 Drains should be kept clear of trees to avoid damage by roots .
2 All these products should be kept under refrigeration unless , like some members of the Frankfurter family , they are preserved in a jar or can .
3 Equally important is the distinction Marx repeatedly draws between the occurrence of small-scale ‘ domestic ’ slavery and whole societies based on the exploitation of slaves , such as was the case for Greece and Rome , and the insistence that these two cases should be kept separate .
4 For safety , all firearms should be kept securely locked in a proper gun cabinet
5 Purely in order to minimise costs , drafting meetings should be kept to a minimum and should wherever possible be restricted .
6 All four fingers must be kept on the fretboard as Fig 1a , gradually moving up the strings as Fig 1b .
7 All four fingers must be kept on fretboard as Fig 2a , gradually moving up as Fig 2b .
8 All four fingers must be kept on the fretboard as Fig 3a , gradually moving up the strings as Fig 3b .
9 The demand for central direction , then , partly as we have seen , a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place , has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous , and rigorously examined , curriculum .
10 Protected : Most cleaning products must be kept dry or their contents , packaging or labelling will suffer .
11 All chemicals and cleansing products must be kept in locked cupboards , and access to these carefully controlled .
12 Sentences in press releases should be kept short .
13 Copies of the book will be required by all those connected with the survey and all copies must be kept up to date by the incorporation of any coding additions , new conventions and unresolved problems .
14 This was the European Court 's view of the requirement of the West German Insurance Supervision Law to the effect that foreign insurance undertakings must set up an establishment in West Germany and ‘ keep available there all the commercial documents relating to that establishment ’ , for which separate accounts must be kept .
15 Disruption of normal activities should be kept to a minimum .
16 Minutes of board meetings must be kept and an annual general meeting must be held .
17 Explaining that pension books may be kept and used by residents themselves if they wish .
18 Dykes and channels must be kept clear to ensure a constant flow of water .
19 The Plowden Report recommended that ‘ Schools with an age range of 5–11 should usually have at least three classes , each covering two age ranges ’ , but by 1976 Lady Plowden , the chairman of the Committee producing the report , appeared to have altered her views , stating in a Border Television broadcast : ‘ Since the report I have come round to thinking that small country schools should be kept open because of the social value and because of the continuity of community involvement they provide . ’ )
20 Clients ' funds should be kept separate from the firm 's own moneys and be held in bank or building society accounts clearly designated as belonging to the client .
21 The leader announced at the beginning that complete freedom of speech was allowed but speeches must be kept short .
22 Many drivers sympathise with the suggestion cars should be kept out of the city centre .
23 The content of individual sessions must be kept confidential .
24 Under-sink cupboards and garden sheds should be kept permanently locked .
25 Experts say that babies under six months should be kept out of the sun altogether and children should wear total block sunscreens , even when just playing out in the summer at home .
26 Like releases , captions should be kept short and to the point and unless the picture is going out as a photo-story with no separate release , this means very short indeed .
27 If space permits it has been suggested that some departmental stocks of general reading books should be kept centrally , however this would be reviewed periodically as our long term aims for the library are achieved .
28 By 1953 there was a general but vague commitment to comprehensive schools — sometimes , in some places , and provided the grammar schools could be kept as well !
29 He promised that any job losses would be kept to a minimum .
30 ABOUT 80pc of the villagers of Treuddyn , near Mold , have signed a petition calling for guarantees that post offices will be kept in rural villages .
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