Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] maintain " in BNC.
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1 | It is not to maintain the pretence that there is no autocue ; it is because continuous looking at the camera apparently produces a disconcerting ‘ super-stare ’ of hostility . |
2 | While , as indicated above , the process of evangelisation will permeate all aspects of the school , it is firmly maintained that the witness of the confident , yet sympathetic R.E . |
3 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
4 | It is often maintained that mentally handicapped people are a burden on society . |
5 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
6 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
7 | It was stoutly maintained by a District Court in S & S Screw Machine Co . |