Example sentences of "not [adv] maintain the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are now several recognised cooking methods that not only maintain the standards of traditional cooking , but improve on them . |
| 2 | He had not only maintained the buildings , he had enhanced them too , with examples of his craftsmanship , such as the panels in the Hall and the Headmaster 's Table , based on an original in Tideswell Church . |
| 3 | And they would abolish the Audit Commission , which not only maintains the probity of local government accounting , but also pioneered the drive for better quality of service and value for money in local government . |
| 4 | The meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 had increased his confidence not only vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire but also in respect of the West , for Austria and Russia ( and subsequently Prussia ) had agreed not only to maintain the integrity of the Sultan 's possessions , but also to guarantee each other 's Polish territories and to assist any established regime which found itself threatened by insurgents . |
| 5 | This dual safeguard , which was designed not merely to maintain the real value of benefits , but also to guarantee that they paralleled any increase in the real incomes of the working population , was removed in 1980 . |
| 6 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |
| 7 | In practise these tidal waves can not quite maintain the alignment , resulting in the tides making a small and roughly constant angle with respect to the line joining the two bodies . |