Example sentences of "could [adv] be maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 2 | Growth rates , however , could only be maintained if aid increased by 4 per cent a year in real terms . |
| 3 | For although we frequently find in paintings of this period that a number of consecutive scenes are represented simultaneously in one picture , in other ways temporal considerations came to exert a decisive influence — in particular , causing painting a secco to replace al fresco , or true fresco , since the very long apprenticeship that pupils had to serve before they became proficient in fresco painting could not be maintained , and a successful painter had to work fast in order to handle all the commissions that he received . |
| 4 | As elsewhere in industry , this terrific pace could not be maintained and ultimately , when the Minister of Labour recommended the reduction of working hours to 56 , the Railway Workshop followed suit , so far as was practicable . |
| 5 | In 1840 the House of Lords accepted the proposition that bills for discovery , the procedure in the Courts of Equity in aid of actions at law , could not be maintained except by and against parties to the record at law . |
| 6 | If war broke out in the Far East ‘ our present forces in Korea would be a military liability and could not be maintained there without substantial reinforcement prior to the initiation of hostilities ’ . |
| 7 | In addition , the notice of objection stated that in respect of any sum properly chargeable to the plaintiffs , i.e. any sum in respect of which objection number 4 could not be maintained , the plaintiffs required ‘ taxation as to the amount thereof and/or that such be referred to the inquiry directed by Chief Master Munrow in the said order . ’ |
| 8 | Even if students were to conceive of their role in this way , the academic freedoms and the associated student ethic could not be maintained solely by the students . |
| 9 | Without this faculty of Richard 's , the world could not be maintained in its present state . |
| 10 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 11 | Could , or could not be maintained depending on its location . |
| 12 | In 1819 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs acquired a permanent Asiatic desk , and in the same year Alexander I created an inter-ministerial body , the Asiatic Committee , to consider how Russia 's trade with the Orient could best be maintained and improved . |
| 13 | No action could ever be maintained , no criminal convicted . |
| 14 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |