Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not maintain I am even necessarily right . |
| 2 | I 've always maintained the analogy that working with Fleetwood Mac was like movie making , because you have an idea , but to get from point A to point B you 've got to go through all these steps . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've always maintained that Peter Schmeichel is the best goalkeeper in Europe . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always maintained that most of us get what we deserve in this life , ’ Wendell said . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I 've always maintained that Paul Byrne is too good for the Irish League . |
| 6 | I have successfully maintained them in hard water , with a pH of 7.8 , but try to keep a neutral pH of 7.0 , for best results . |
| 7 | I have consistently maintained that the canoe is the traditional craft for exploring wilderness areas without disturbing wildlife . |
| 8 | I have consistently maintained the position throughout this book that sovereignty has not yet changed hands . |
| 9 | I have always maintained you should do the things in life that are most difficult . |
| 10 | I have always maintained , ’ Woolley said with ponderous irony , ‘ that the way to avoid a long argument is to shoot the other man before he starts . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always maintained that the priesthood is male , Jesus chose 12 Apostles and they were all men . ’ |
| 12 | However I have always maintained that a happy class moves better ! |
| 13 | They never fundamentally question the nature of their political system , which has successfully maintained their small elite in power since the last popular rebellion was put down in 1932 . |
| 14 | The second most important medium is commercial television , which has consistently maintained about 25% of the total . |
| 15 | The West coast route , however , could not be profitable , with 1960s-vintage equipment which cost more to maintain , and it was less reliable than on the East-coast line . |
| 16 | Montenegro , which had partially maintained its independence for many centuries , was another added area of people of mainly Serbian characteristics . |
| 17 | This restrained aloofness has had its drawbacks : it has given the bellicose idealists of the Left freedom to ride roughshod with impunity over institutions which have hitherto maintained our nation as civilised and admirable . |
| 18 | So what does she do just maintain the stables ? |
| 19 | There , we believe , are constructed fragments of society the reality of which is unquestioned by the children who are its constructors and who know how to maintain it . |
| 20 | There is a law in physics , identified by Isaac Newton , which says in essence that everything falls apart without energy : if you do not maintain your house , it will fall down ; if you do not look after your business , it will fall apart . |
| 21 | I will always remember standing one early spring day near the river Severn , arguing with a drainage officer who had previously maintained watercourses now due to be reshaped as part of an expensive new scheme . |
| 22 | Mr Gummer , who had always maintained that he would act if circumstances demanded , said farmers were frequently forced to combine in very wet conditions . |
| 23 | Now Gwynedd County Council have announced their intention to commission a comprehensive feasibility study into re-opening the whole line in conjunction with the 1964 Comp[any who have steadfastly maintained their stance of wanting to start reconstruction from the southern end where they are operating a three-quarter of a mile line along former British Rail land beside Porthmadog station . |
| 24 | We want properly maintained rights of way and better information about the resources needed to sort them out for the benefit of all . |
| 25 | But we do n't maintain the kitchen gardens and the greenhouses anymore . |
| 26 | At CCG , we have always maintained high standards of hygiene and food handling techniques , and whilst we have introduced some new systems we have not experienced any difficulties adopting the new regulations . |
| 27 | Eugene Fife , chairman of Goldman Sachs International , said : ‘ We have constantly maintained that Goldman Sachs did not manipulate the securities market and we are very pleased that this has been confirmed in the independent review undertaken by the Stock Exchange . ’ |
| 28 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 29 | In fact , it was probably decreasing size in those creatures evolving from the therapsids that spurred the need for mammalian endothermy when the problems of overheating became the reverse — when they needed later to maintain temperatures . |
| 30 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |