Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll always maintain that people with glasses know they 've got something wrong with their eyes so the chances are if they 're wearing glasses then they can see properly ! |
| 2 | The occasions when we fail to do this , I would further maintain , include the psychological experiment . |
| 3 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 4 | There is no need to be too rigid in your choice of material for each season , unless you feel it is important , but nevertheless you should still maintain the overall feeling of each season , although in some cases I chose a few out-of-season flowers to give a better colour or shape . |
| 5 | You should therefore maintain an experts register divided into medical , non-medical and counsel . |
| 6 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 7 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 8 | I was told the service was really only for pilots flying unaccompanied , who could not maintain a good lookout whilst otherwise engaged , and that the service applied essentially to commercial operations . |
| 9 | Thus Sir William Trumbull , when he was sent as English ambassador to Paris in 1685 , was told that : You shall constantly correspond with our ministers in other foreign courts , for our better service , and your mutual information and assistance in your respective negotiations ; and you shall also maintain a good correspondence and intercourse with all the other ambassadors , envoys and ministers of princes and states in amity with us , and as far as you can penetrate into the designs of their respective superiors , and of what you can discover of this nature you shall give us a constant account by one of our Principal Secretaries of State . |
| 10 | Placing great importance on this latter aspect Whitaker decided the first two scripts should be written by the same author , who would thus maintain an overall series continuity . |
| 11 | For those who can not maintain , who can not support the maintenance of the links of the trade union movement Party , we say this start packing your bags there 's the door , we 'll stick around ! |
| 12 | It is important that you do your chosen exercise at a pace that makes you slightly breathless and increases your heart rate , but not so much that you can not maintain the exercise for at least twenty or thirty minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ But we could easily maintain our standard of living while using less electricity . |
| 14 | Moreover , we could not maintain a continuously preconditioned state by infusing an A 1 -selective adenosine agonist into rabbits for 3 days . |
| 15 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 16 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 17 | A more delicate question to assess , however , is whether one could reasonably maintain that they are pre-adapted for Language ( not necessarily vocal , but symbolic and semantic in an appropriate sense ) . |
| 18 | One could not maintain the criminal justice system otherwise . |
| 19 | Here we would never maintain the whole is suffering environmental decline , but that parts of it are , and this matters to the numerous people living there . |
| 20 | But no one will seriously maintain that the verses do not have a design upon us ; that they do not promulgate a message — the message that all secular explanations of human life are vain and inadequate . |
| 21 | We will also maintain direct support for farming the Less Favoured Areas in ways which encourage good environmental practice . |
| 22 | We can only maintain a healthy scepticism of any claims to place public welfare above private interest . |
| 23 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 24 | Banks aim to make profits , but they must also maintain sufficient liquidity . |
| 25 | They could n't maintain this strained silence indefinitely . |
| 26 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |
| 27 | They would both maintain the present cycle of welfare dependency in education , whereby parents are unable to exercise their proper responsibility , as a result of which the spirit of freedom atrophies and schools run down . |
| 28 | They will also maintain and build on the PathWorks program and develop new services for Mac clients . |
| 29 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 30 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |