Example sentences of "kept [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as the carriage was always at the front or back , it could be kept private from the rest of the train . |
| 2 | However , these occasional tensions had been kept private until Robert and Samuel Wilberforce chose to make some of them public in the life of their father they published in 1838 . |
| 3 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 4 | Do n't hesitate to use them even if they sound silly or have to be kept private . |
| 5 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 6 | Whereas on earlier occasions where bad news or unfavourable developments had occurred , the view had prevailed — at least in public utterances — that the Führer had been badly counselled or had been kept uninformed , in the case of Stalingrad Hitler was directly implicated in the catastrophe . |
| 7 | It is a love which has been kept in ignorance : have n't women been kept uninformed for long enough ? |
| 8 | But the heavy rain has been welcomed by the British Waterways , as a much needed boost for its canals and reservoirs which have been kept low during this year 's long , hot summer . |
| 9 | Even during the good periods , quoting the annual rate was misleading : the proportion of all bonds outstanding that defaulted in any given year was kept low by the huge proportion of new issues in 1986–90 . |
| 10 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 11 | Throughout the 1970s , even when prices were rising quite rapidly , interest rates were kept low , and real interest rates were negative . |
| 12 | Hence managers choose carefully a position for their factory , so that transport costs are kept low . |
| 13 | Vegetation at the intersections is kept low to aid visibility . |
| 14 | The costs will be kept low — less than 2.5% of initial expenses and 0.4% annual management charge . |
| 15 | in the ‘ balanced aquarium ’ system , the nitrogen compounds produced by the fish 's metabolism were taken up by plants , and nitrate levels in the water would be kept low . |
| 16 | In this situation the hands must be kept low and the crampons used in a front point mode until it is possible to step onto the easier ice with a flat foot ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 17 | Only a small amount of sand is sucked up if the air flow is kept low . |
| 18 | Considering its robustness and the all-round windshield , weight is kept low and it packs neatly away into the small bag supplied . |
| 19 | Although pricing has not yet been decided , it will be kept low to appeal to the mass market . |
| 20 | This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily . |
| 21 | The number of people seen is high — up to 100 patients a day — thus ensuring that unit costs are kept low . |
| 22 | Another mechanism by which the amount of repressor can be kept low in the nucleus involves the possibility that the repressor be confined in the cytoplasm ; we were thus prompted to test the nucleo-cytoplasmic ripartition of the X binding activity in Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Lights were kept low , to cover a multitude of small defects . |
| 25 | A strong pound has been seen as essential if inflation is to be kept low . |
| 26 | The energy to be found in projects of this type is dissipated by the IMF and World Bank strangle-hold on developing countries , which means that wages are kept low . |
| 27 | For 90° corners where resistance needs to be kept low or to reduce noise . |
| 28 | Hydrogen partial pressures in the colon are kept low by losses in breath and flatus and by the activities of hydrogen utilising species such as methanogenic , acetogenic , and sulphate reducing bacteria . |
| 29 | The price of the ticket has been kept low and it is necessary to run raffles to defray expenses . |
| 30 | ( i ) Backwards pruning : the problem is formulated in such a way that the average branching factor and/or the depth of the tree are kept low . |