Example sentences of "and [adv] maintain [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Ballingall , manager of the London and Kirkaldy Shipping Company and a former seaman , made it his business to advertise weaknesses of naval architecture as well as crewing and a Select Committee of 1836 found British ships to be ill constructed and badly maintained and their masters and officers frequently drunken and incompetent . |
| 2 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 3 | Dermot was devoted to England and always maintained that he never went abroad if he could avoid it . |
| 4 | Congress ( I ) leaders accused the government of vindictiveness and of seeking to install its own supporters as governors , and further maintained that the actions also went against the spirit of the Constitution and against the recommendations of the Sarkaria Committee which had suggested that governors should be persons not too closely or recently involved in party politics and that governors from one political party should not be imposed on a state governed by an opposing party . |
| 5 | The Convention scorned the suggestion that James had abdicated , and instead maintained that he had " forefaulted " the Crown through misgovernment , implying that the King of Scotland held his throne contractually . |
| 6 | The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life . |