Sentence examples for kept rather from inspiring English sources
"He kept rather distant, which was rather good for the part.
"I'm a bit of a workaholic, and I actually stay more alert and creative and focused when I'm kept rather busy.
Hu Jintao's wife often accompanied her husband abroad, but otherwise kept rather quiet, dutifully posing for pictures while remaining a mostly silent supporter of her husband's career.
Since these horses are used mainly for shows, their hooves are kept rather long, and the muscles of the tail are often clipped so that the base of the tail is carried high.
After one Atlantic crossing he proudly wrote to Clover that "on the whole I have kept rather free from any entanglements, and in particular there have been no ladies on board with whom I have particularly consorted".
However, the TD on the sub-nanometer scale (or even on a few micrometers) keeps rather small.
These are fair arguments, but most of the coverage reeks of judgment for the company he keeps, rather than dissecting those points.
We decided to keep rather than omit this item, in order to ensure the comparability with the appropriately performing parent-report and the European data set.
It seems that the function of a miRNA in the context of cooperativity can better be defined by its interactions with other miRNAs (or 'the company it keeps') rather than by its individual characteristics.
Excess capacity is kept going, rather than shut down.
