Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dual safeguard , which was designed not merely to maintain the real value of benefits , but also to guarantee that they paralleled any increase in the real incomes of the working population , was removed in 1980 . |
| 2 | The meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 had increased his confidence not only vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire but also in respect of the West , for Austria and Russia ( and subsequently Prussia ) had agreed not only to maintain the integrity of the Sultan 's possessions , but also to guarantee each other 's Polish territories and to assist any established regime which found itself threatened by insurgents . |
| 3 | More than 20 years ago , the Plowden Report ( 1967 ) drew attention to such staff and made recommendations regarding their recruitment and career structure , numbers , role , and training requirements , emphasising , in particular , that , ‘ ancillary help should be used not simply to maintain , but to raise educational standards ’ . |
| 4 | According to Bob Hunt , the ICI Chlor-Chemicals business must aim not only to maintain and enhance its competitive position in traditional high-tonnage products , but also to develop subsidiary businesses through a combination of increasing technical sophistication and aggressive international marketing . |
| 5 | The specialized hummingbirds do not normally maintain feeding territories or defend patches of flowers but ‘ trapline ’ to flowers on other plants of the same species . |
| 6 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |
| 7 | The state has to respond to various pressures which are contradictory and do not unequivocally maintain and support the capitalist process of accumulation . |
| 8 | He had not only maintained the buildings , he had enhanced them too , with examples of his craftsmanship , such as the panels in the Hall and the Headmaster 's Table , based on an original in Tideswell Church . |
| 9 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |