Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repairs and maintenance could merely maintain an asset at its present state ( revenue expenditure ) or could add improvements to an asset ( capital expenditure ) . |
| 2 | The court held that the council could not maintain the action : ‘ to allow such a thing would be wholly unprecedented and contrary to principle : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 806 , per Day J. There were two grounds of decision in effect , first , that a corporation might sue for a libel affecting property but not for one affecting personal reputation and , secondly , that the charge was one of bribery and corruption of which ( see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case , 4 H. & N. 87 ) ‘ a corporation can not possibly be guilty : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 807 . |
| 3 | The defendants applied to strike out the statement of claim of the local authority on a preliminary issue on the grounds that the authority could not maintain an action in libel for words which reflected on it in relation to its governmental and administrative functions and that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 5 | While the civil war raged , the English government could not maintain even the rather shadowy control it had exercised previously . |
| 6 | In this situation the US government could not maintain the inflated hopes about détente which had built up in 1971–3 . |
| 7 | Without the foreign exchange , and with continuing but hidden US subversion , Lacidar 's government could not maintain the social reform programme . |
| 8 | However , the reader could still maintain an internally consistent position by advocating ‘ incorporation ’ as the only feasible route to modernisation and development , at the same time as acknowledging the linkages between these processes and soil erosion . |