Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | By means of the Alexander Technique I have acquired an awareness of where my body is in space which means I am now able to control my muscle tension by means of my brain ; this is essential if I was ever to maintain a posture without straining my body unconsciously . |
| 2 | Elaine claimed that horses do not damage paths which are properly maintained ( ie well drained ) , but horses do not like tarmac . |
| 3 | Like the more recent phenomenological sociologists , Freud saw that there were competing views of reality , some of which were socially maintained and continually reinforced by social processes , others of which were maintained in small groups , families or by one individual alone . |
| 4 | They were several hundred yards apart and hidden from each other by a bend in the road , and they were both set well back and reached by private tracks which were better maintained than the road itself . |
| 5 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 6 | There are some patients who are permanently maintained on ventilators because of illness . |
| 7 | They 're young and you 're still maintaining them when you 're alive you ca n't pretend that they do n't exist when the will comes along . |
| 8 | She 's always maintained that her son is not dead . ’ |
| 9 | By the age of 30 she was still maintained on home total parenteral nutrition , and continued to vomit fluid . |
| 10 | In Wapping there are poorly maintained public spaces adjoining expensive new developments with their own private courtyards and river terraces . |
| 11 | They are well maintained , and there are no problems with smells . |
| 12 | Red deer are ideal animals to be considered for such sustainable management , because they are already maintained by human intervention on open hill land , very different from the forest habitat which they once occupied in Scotland and still inhabit in the rest of Europe . |
| 13 | With the profession having accepted the need for a formalised system of Continued Professional Development ( see Chapter 5 ) it will be necessary to devise specifically designed training programmes and to manage these at a senior level to ensure that they are effectively maintained . |
| 14 | Rot is one of the biggest enemies of all types of wooden windows , especially if they 're poorly maintained . |
| 15 | And those that are the neighbours ' responsibility — are they being properly maintained ? |
| 16 | In 1523 there were highly rated black ‘ hummel ’ or ‘ humble ’ cattle ( the word means polled ) in the Cutler district of Aberdeenshire and they were carefully maintained in a pure state even then . |
| 17 | It is not to maintain the pretence that there is no autocue ; it is because continuous looking at the camera apparently produces a disconcerting ‘ super-stare ’ of hostility . |
| 18 | While , as indicated above , the process of evangelisation will permeate all aspects of the school , it is firmly maintained that the witness of the confident , yet sympathetic R.E . |
| 19 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 20 | It is often maintained that mentally handicapped people are a burden on society . |
| 21 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
| 22 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 23 | It was stoutly maintained by a District Court in S & S Screw Machine Co . |