Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's always maintained that her son is not dead . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is often maintained that mentally handicapped people are a burden on society . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |