Example sentences of "could [adv] maintain [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover if , as seemed likely , CO 2 was the dominant atmospheric constituent then the greenhouse effect of CO 2 could only maintain such temperatures if the column mass of atmospheric CO 2 was about 10 6 kg/m 2 . |
| 2 | There were , however , many rural societies and branches of larger societies , whose members were agricultural labourers , who often had the advantage of regular if not of high wages ; and the high fall-out rate of membership of most societies testifies to the numbers who aspired to the security provided by membership but could not maintain regular payments . |
| 3 | The Irish , predictably , could not maintain that test-type approach to the following mid-week match against a very tidy second division side , Manawatu . |
| 4 | However , even with his extensive travels and campaigns , Charles could not maintain personal supervision of everything and so he appointed travelling supervisors or commissioners , known as missi dominici . |
| 5 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 6 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 7 | They could n't maintain this strained silence indefinitely . |
| 8 | Lyons could legitimately maintain that scribal records have some potential , according to the institutions in which they are developed and used , for reliability as defined in that culture or even as defined by him . |