Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ But we could easily maintain our standard of living while using less electricity . |
| 5 | Moreover , we could not maintain a continuously preconditioned state by infusing an A 1 -selective adenosine agonist into rabbits for 3 days . |
| 6 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | One could not maintain the criminal justice system otherwise . |
| 10 | They could n't maintain this strained silence indefinitely . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nick Faldo , who after an outward half of 33 , had closed to within two strokes of the lead , was in with a fine chance but he could not maintain it . |