Example sentences of "could [adv] maintain [det] " 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 | The Irish , predictably , could not maintain that test-type approach to the following mid-week match against a very tidy second division side , Manawatu . |
| 3 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | They could n't maintain this strained silence indefinitely . |
| 6 | 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 . |