Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We can only maintain a healthy scepticism of any claims to place public welfare above private interest . |
| 4 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of the major problems is that the dog feels insecure in the water because it can not maintain its grip properly on the base of the bath . |
| 7 | Like Margery in Dame Sirith , he can not maintain the courtly role he attempts to appropriate , and cuts a most unimpressive figure . |
| 8 | To take the weakest case first ; even if the sceptic were unwise enough to admit that any assertion involves a claim to knowledge and that he is asserting his conclusion that knowledge is impossible , he can still maintain his position . |