Example sentences of "could [adv] maintain [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repairs and maintenance could merely maintain an asset at its present state ( revenue expenditure ) or could add improvements to an asset ( capital expenditure ) . |
| 2 | I was told the service was really only for pilots flying unaccompanied , who could not maintain a good lookout whilst otherwise engaged , and that the service applied essentially to commercial operations . |
| 3 | Moreover , we could not maintain a continuously preconditioned state by infusing an A 1 -selective adenosine agonist into rabbits for 3 days . |
| 4 | In this situation the US government could not maintain the inflated hopes about détente which had built up in 1971–3 . |
| 5 | The court held that the council could not maintain the action : ‘ to allow such a thing would be wholly unprecedented and contrary to principle : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 806 , per Day J. There were two grounds of decision in effect , first , that a corporation might sue for a libel affecting property but not for one affecting personal reputation and , secondly , that the charge was one of bribery and corruption of which ( see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case , 4 H. & N. 87 ) ‘ a corporation can not possibly be guilty : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 807 . |
| 6 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 7 | One could not maintain the criminal justice system otherwise . |
| 8 | Without the foreign exchange , and with continuing but hidden US subversion , Lacidar 's government could not maintain the social reform programme . |
| 9 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 10 | The defendants applied to strike out the statement of claim of the local authority on a preliminary issue on the grounds that the authority could not maintain an action in libel for words which reflected on it in relation to its governmental and administrative functions and that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action . |
| 11 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 12 | However , the reader could still maintain an internally consistent position by advocating ‘ incorporation ’ as the only feasible route to modernisation and development , at the same time as acknowledging the linkages between these processes and soil erosion . |