Example sentences of "[subord] maintain the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed more concerned to break than maintain the shaky truce existing between him and his father . |
| 2 | But following this change in tax credits on dividends some employer contribution holidays will have to stop , while other less well-padded schemes may be forced to invest more in secure vehicles such as bonds and gilts rather than maintain the heavy weighting towards equities typical of most funds at present . |
| 3 | The need is to push up Curve A over the guerrilla and terrorist bands , as shown by the arrow , while maintaining the current effectiveness of the nuclear deterrent , as represented by the pillar . |
| 4 | Hickson take pride in their ability to solve technical problems quickly while maintaining the highest safety standards . |
| 5 | Structural and decorative work was undertaken to create the best in modern working environment while maintaining the traditional ambience of this ‘ grand old Bank ’ and its numerous objects d'art . |
| 6 | In the Junior School we are determined to keep pace with current thought and practice identified in the recent national initiatives while maintaining the traditional standards of excellence which parents rightly expect of George Heriot 's . |
| 7 | Speaker K's contribution ‘ picks up ’ the past time element , moving closer to speaker J's time while maintaining the personal reference in my father , who also did work ( stonemason ) comparable to J's ( bricklayer ) and received money for this work . |
| 8 | If last year 's congressional deliberations are any guide , R&D should recoup some of the losses in programmes unpopular with the White House , and defence wo n't get everything the Pentagon would like — in effect , lopping off the extreme fluctuations while maintaining the basic thrust of the White House economic philosophy . |
| 9 | To this the Queen returned a gracious reply which while maintaining the full impartiality of the Crown encouraged me to continue to do my best to serve her as her First Minister . |
| 10 | This lays down a general statutory objective of making provision for new or better ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of person providing them , while maintaining the proper and efficient administration of justice . |
| 11 | It is here that the polymer scientist needs to manipulate the cross-link and backbone structure , while maintaining the same water content , to limit deformation under eyelid load to around 5 per cent , with good elastic recovery . |
| 12 | There is also an upgrade to the SuperSparc ( Viking ) chip for the Sparcserver 600MP Series of multiprocessing servers , doubling the performance ceiling of these systems while maintaining the same range of price points . |
| 13 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 14 | Fundamental to the whole process was the transference to colleges of the maximum responsibility for course development and assessment , while maintaining the important framework of national comparability . |
| 15 | To combine informality and friendliness whilst maintaining the highest standards of service and food is a rare achievement but Jean-Pierre has mastered this difficult art . |
| 16 | MegaCAD 3.3 claims to be just this — with ‘ rapid learning whilst maintaining the highest efficiency being the uppermost principles ’ . |
| 17 | For instance , if loan stock is issued with warrants when profits and share prices are rising , the exercise of the warrants will introduce further equity funds into the company whilst maintaining the higher gearing which the loan stock provides ( as distinct from convertible loan stock which has the effect of withdrawing the cheaper gearing on conversion into equity ) . |
| 18 | The SPD 's willingness to talk with the Eastern bloc , whilst maintaining the Western alliance , seemed a more realistic policy . |
| 19 | Using this method the idling current can be limited to very low values whilst maintaining the large voltage and current swings required to drive a loudspeaker . |
| 20 | The b l and b 2 vibrations are equally symmetric , and an arbitrary choice has to be made , first as to which set is to be labeled b 1 , and secondly as to whether to maintain the same order in mode numbering . |
| 21 | The engineers plan and supervise the construction of new facilities as well as maintaining the electrical , electronic , mechanical and civil parts of our operation . |
| 22 | The bass part has therefore been added according to the principles of interval harmony , so as to maintain the right equilibrium of consonance and dissonance . |
| 23 | If the bad image of the pawnbroker kept would-be customers away , many of the small debtors would have been even more reluctant to seek relief from the grander money-lender whose role was not so much , it seems , to relieve the impoverished of misery as to maintain the well-off in their excesses . |
| 24 | In setting up the scheme , care must be taken to judge the range and slopes of the lines so as to maintain the desired balance in the minds of the contractor 's engineers . |
| 25 | The UK agreements are not concerned with principle or with the ‘ spirit ’ of the agreement : they are trickily worded and legalistically interpreted so as to maintain the maximum freedom to advertise . |
| 26 | Further regular meetings are intended so as to maintain the vital liaison between the carpet industry , Parliament and government , and to enable carpet manufacturers to voice their concern . |
| 27 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |