Example sentences of "of maintain [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1662 the English government allocated £2,000 to meet the costs of maintaining a Russian ambassador during his short stay in London ; and two decades later another , after much argument , forced his hosts to allow him £100 a week — twice as much as he had originally been offered . |
| 2 | ‘ What has not been recognised is the difficulty of maintaining a stable exchange rate within the ERM unless British industry 's costs rise no faster than those of our EC competitors . ’ |
| 3 | It will fail to perform its function of maintaining a stable society if people 's expectations can not be reasonably guaranteed for some time to come . |
| 4 | Tripartisme was then at an end , and the problem of maintaining a stable government in the new Republic then became extremely difficult . |
| 5 | Instead of maintaining a fixed rate or parity against the dollar , other major currencies were allowed to float in the foreign exchange market . |
| 6 | What do you think would be the main secret of maintaining a healthy sex life into one 's seventies and even beyond ? |
| 7 | More knowledge of the emotional needs of children demonstrated the importance of maintaining a warm and continuous relationship between a child and his or her mother or mother substitute . |
| 8 | But he would not countenance a " Party within a Party , " and the NAC had to face up to the consequences of maintaining a separate party in Parliament . |
| 9 | He was in turn replaced by Sydney Box who , while reinstating Black 's policy of maintaining a broad range of films and enlarging the script department , run by his wife Muriel , to develop original stories and train new writers , gave a twist to the company 's film production that looks more like deference to Rank 's demand for moral uplift than a full-hearted pursuit of the popular audience . |
| 10 | CLIVE DID NOT like the idea of spending the early evening with Amelia Dorf 's crowd of goat rapists and rich sickies , but as an entrepreneur he knew the importance of maintaining a personal relationship with his best customers . |
| 11 | All the artificial constraints of maintaining a regulated monopoly mean that it is not in the best interests of the consumer . |
| 12 | In general the tactic of maintaining a parallel organization within the unions was a failure . |
| 13 | This , then , defines the extent of the stamina which your training programme must develop so that you are capable of maintaining a relentless and powerful onslaught for the whole bout . |
| 14 | There has been some debate over the necessity of maintaining a central bank , when it is possible to have a free banking regime in which banks would be free to print their own notes to satisfy the demand for cash . |
| 15 | This is not only the case of small linguistic communities vulnerable to quite modest demographic changes , such as the thinly-populated hills and coasts of Welsh-speaking Wales , or Estonia , whose 1m or so Estonian speakers would in any case place it at the very lower limit of populations capable of maintaining a modern linguistic culture at all levels . |
| 16 | The Battle of the Boyne had shaken his confidence in James 's value as an ally and his admirals were well aware of the difficulty of maintaining a large fleet in the Channel , with no port east of Brest able to accommodate their large ships whatever the state of the tide and wind , while the English fleet had a choice of harbours from Plymouth to Chatham , and of splendid natural anchorages from Torbay , via Portland , the Downs and the Nore , to the Gunfleet , usable in any weather . |
| 17 | An outer β -strand in the protein G domain forms an antiparallel interaction with the last β -strand in the constant heavy chain domain of the immunoglobulin , thus extending the β -sheet into the protein G. The interaction between secondary structural elements in Fab and protein G provides an ingenious solution to the problem of maintaining a high affinity for many different IgG molecules . |
| 18 | But the necessity of maintaining a psychological theory leads her to reify non-verbal communication somewhat . |
| 19 | Gorbachev , over the summer , stressed the importance of concluding a new agreement of this kind , and equally , of maintaining a common state framework . |
| 20 | The activity of maintaining a safe environment |
| 21 | Every day people are engaged in many activities with the specific purpose of maintaining a safe environment , whether at home or at work or at play or travelling . |
| 22 | THE NATURE OF MAINTAINING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT |
| 23 | There are many dimensions to the AL of maintaining a safe environment and , obviously not all can be discussed in this chapter . |
| 24 | Even when at work the AL of maintaining a safe environment can not be forgotten . |
| 25 | It seems paradoxical that man must attend to the AL of maintaining a safe environment even during leisure activities . |
| 26 | Any activity which aims at preventing fire is a component of the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 27 | An essential dimension of the AL of maintaining a safe environment is preventing infection . |
| 28 | One dimension of maintaining a safe environment is the prevention of pollution . |
| 29 | Preventing pollution is one dimension of maintaining a safe environment which is largely a public rather than a personal responsibility . |
| 30 | To sum up , it seems logical to prevent rather than cure but of course prevention as well as being a politicoeconomic consideration , demands knowledge and self-discipline , and for these to be applied , individuals must develop an understanding of the nature and purpose of maintaining a safe environment . |