Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
| 2 | Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony . |
| 3 | They could always have maintained of course that , whatever the poet 's intentions , the poem as an achieved entity answered to their interpretations . |
| 4 | They could also choose to maintain barriers to trade , to investment and to other financial transactions with the outside world . |
| 5 | Some were actually poised on the threshold of gentility , a state they could well afford to maintain , and to which they very frequently attained through the acquisition of real wealth . |
| 6 | Given this incapacity Spain could never hope to maintain diplomatic independence against France or to resist French demands for war against Great Britain , in spite of knowledge of the disastrous consequences of such a war to the Spanish colonial empire and its trade . |