Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to maintain [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several other chairmen wanted a concerted public admission that they too had inadvertently breached the regulations ( and it was indeed difficult to avoid technical breaches of the detailed regulations ) , but the choice was made rather to maintain a prudential low profile . |
| 2 | Sheltered shore whelks seem to have been selected more to maintain a balance with K , the carrying capacity of the environment . |
| 3 | There are a number of variables against which a language can vary , e.g. time-span , geographical origin , gender of author , discourse type , subject area , etc. , and the sources from which the corpus is compiled must be selected carefully to maintain a representative balance . |
| 4 | The order of these is established in a ‘ series ’ which recurs constantly throughout a work , so that all the notes of the total-chromatic are used evenly to maintain an atonal atmosphere . |
| 5 | What Lord Airlie , the Lord Chamberlain , actually said on 11 February when announcing the areas on which the Queen was now going to pay tax , was that the income-raising activities relating to the collection — sales of tickets , catalogues , souvenirs etc — are to be put into a trust to reflect the fact that these activities are used exclusively to maintain the Collection . |
| 6 | But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office . |
| 7 | The Indian civil administration was even smaller , numbering only 857 , with 32 on average required annually to maintain the strength of the service . |