Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] maintain " in BNC.

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1 These and other rules are designed ( amongst other things ) to guarantee bank solvency and therefore to protect depositors and indeed to maintain a stable monetary system .
2 The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century .
3 Dermot was devoted to England and always maintained that he never went abroad if he could avoid it .
4 World At One and PM increased their ratings in the first week of the campaign and Today maintained its 1.3 million audience .
5 It is also likely that by providing minimum standards of living , social services reduce public apathy and dejection and thus maintain the will to work .
6 Get some professional tips on how to look after your hair and how to maintain the style at home .
7 The script was commissioned quickly to replace Coburn 's dropped ‘ The Robots ’ story and thereby maintain the balance between historical and futuristic adventures , and production was scheduled and slotted to follow on a week later from ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ .
8 State policy is instead set by the impersonal logic which drives government in a capitalist society to develop the economic base and coercively maintain social stability .
9 Can we lessen the number of family black sheep and still maintain the spice of difference .
10 A positive consequence of this is that the church has preserved her spiritual heritage and also maintained her community base .
11 There is a common expectation that mourners will visit the cemetery where the dead person 's body or ashes have been interred for a recognized period of time , attending to flowers at the grave and generally maintaining contact with the memory of the dead person .
12 Are they all sound and well maintained ?
13 Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States .
14 One day we may be able to satisfy all our food longings and still maintain a healthy diet .
15 However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade .
16 It is important to allow birth parents ' to express their feelings and not to maintain a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ because it is a difficult situation .
17 By claiming the right to discipline their own members , professional associations largely prevent public scrutiny of their affairs and so maintain the image which they project of themselves .
18 Although one person may not be able to combine the range of roles and tasks in the way that some coordinators have , it is perfectly possible to spread these across the staff as a whole and thus maintain the momentum of innovation and support .
19 Extremely long lengths of gutter for Austin Rover on its ‘ Flight Shed ’ building at Longbridge are shown after relining with an in situ GRP gutter lining system without disturbing the existing gutters and also maintaining their full flow capacity
20 The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture .
21 Hence , small intestinal epithelial stem cells may be isolated in mixed cell populations and successfully maintained ex vivo .
22 ‘ We have got to get off to a good start and then maintain momentum , ’ said the 24-year-old Llewellyn .
23 For if at the end of period 1 a rise in aggregate demand is predictable , the government could reduce its own spending and thereby maintain the position of the aggregate demand curve at AD and hence maintain aggregate real output at y n .
24 If a spark of success was first engendered by a British golfer and then maintained , Martinez' clones would quickly and insidiously begin the process of prising the potential star , and his potential earnings , away from Fearnley .
25 Otherwise beware of ill-fitted appliances , blocked flues and badly maintained heaters — all can cause lethal fumes .
26 The objective of a company taking advantage of these provisions , therefore , is to conceal as much of its activities as possible from the outside world and therefore maintain a degree of confidentiality .
27 It is thought that the side-chain inter-reacts with poly-unsaturated fatty acids in the membrane , leaving the hydroxyl group in a position to scavenge free radicals and so maintain the integrity of the cell .
28 Erm the City Council does act as agent for the highway authority within the City of York and actually maintains a a tra transportation model er in conjunction with the County Council with the County Surveyor .
29 Such businesses are not going to survive in the face of the pressure being applied by insurance companies to have their customers only deal with approved repairers , particularly when it is becoming harder and more expensive to become an approved repairer and then maintain one 's company as such .
30 But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants .
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