Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By the age of 30 she was still maintained on home total parenteral nutrition , and continued to vomit fluid . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was stoutly maintained by a District Court in S & S Screw Machine Co . |