Example sentences of "not [adv] maintain [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 3 | But , whatever their importance in economic terms , the number of middling peasant holdings not only maintained itself , but even increased sometimes . |
| 4 | The most ambitious suggestion will be that the units behave in a way functional for the system , as demonstrated by showing why the system could not otherwise maintain its impetus . |
| 5 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |