Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] keep up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |
| 2 | According to Professor Thomis , it is " an area of agreement " that wages were generally unable to keep up with steeply rising food prices , while Mathias , pointing to rising money wages as a feature of the period , concludes that inflating prices generally outpaced them . |
| 3 | Some of the children at school went out to do a traffic count recently and there was so much volume of traffic that the children were not able to keep up with th putting the in the to keep up with the volume of traffic . |
| 4 | Concrete must be used within four house of mixing , and it is usually easier to keep up with the latter type , which is laid as it is mixed . |
| 5 | Although his general health seemed more stable after his long recuperation , he was finding it more and more difficult to keep up with his daily obligations , let alone those of a more public nature . |
| 6 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 7 | Beware ! if you take too long they remove their shell , change colour and are even harder to keep up with . |
| 8 | Beware ! if you take too long they remove their shell , change colour and are even harder to keep up with . |
| 9 | And it really is n't eas it really is n't difficult to keep up to date er once you 've got the background because although income tax does change it only changes annually , it may well change more frequently changes annually . |
| 10 | The old man sliced through the logs with such quick , sweet accuracy that it was almost impossible to keep up with him . |
| 11 | I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total . |
| 12 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 13 | He was said to have caused an inordinate number of retakes when unable to keep up with fellow Afghans in an attack scene . |
| 14 | Alison Norman in her challenging discussion paper suggests very basic origins for ageism : ‘ We have , after all , an animal inheritance and it is animal instinct to challenge and destroy the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail and to abandon to their fate animals which are too weak to keep up with the rest . ’ |
| 15 | The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die . |
| 16 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |
| 17 | City authorities from Calcutta to Cairo have laid sewers , but they are too expensive to keep up with the growth of the cities . |