Example sentences of "[adv] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a prime objective at every stage is to prevent the necessity for increasingly intrusive interventions , thereby maintaining autonomy and family integrity . |
| 2 | Article 1 sets out its purpose , viz. ‘ to ensure the continuation of farming thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In order to ensure the continuation of farming , thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas the list of which is … ’ |
| 4 | Once aware of what the problems are , the nurse can help the patient to develop alternative ways of detecting and responding to hazards in the environment , thereby maintaining maximum independence for this AL . |
| 5 | It would also be an appropriate time to institute similar legislation to that of the US government in order to keep company profits stable , thereby maintaining research levels , and at the same time ensure that people may benefit from drugs that would otherwise not be available because they were not profitable to produce . |
| 6 | In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period . |
| 7 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 8 | This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |
| 9 | But now , here was Beryl vigorously maintaining that her father had ‘ worked it all out — planned it move by move ’ . |
| 10 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 11 | On what Chrissie Stone earned , it was hard enough maintaining the bathroom , let alone the whole five-bedroomed monstrosity of the house in East London . |
| 12 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 13 | those contacts exist erm I ant anticipate publicity in communicating with local schools and other institutions and things like that and there after merely maintaining some kind of a a a regular advertisement slot in the local paper that says , Yes I 'm still here , because people forget . |
| 14 | He only maintained that the present forms of Church government which the laws of the land had established were such as ‘ No law of God nor reason had proved them to do ill . ’ |
| 15 | But , whatever their importance in economic terms , the number of middling peasant holdings not only maintained itself , but even increased sometimes . |
| 16 | He merely maintained that the non-recurrence of the same complexes of qualities was a probability , not a certainty . |
| 17 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 18 | It is thought that the side-chain inter-reacts with poly-unsaturated fatty acids in the membrane , leaving the hydroxyl group in a position to scavenge free radicals and so maintain the integrity of the cell . |
| 19 | From January 1987 a system of periodic licensing was introduced , whereby nurses , midwives and health visitors wishing to remain on the SPR , and so maintain their eligibility to practise , must pay a periodic fee every three years . |
| 20 | Now , although the haven is badly silted , little fishing vessels and a handful of pleasure craft have moorings here and so maintain the ceaseless nautical atmosphere which Saltfleet has exuded throughout the centuries . |
| 21 | By claiming the right to discipline their own members , professional associations largely prevent public scrutiny of their affairs and so maintain the image which they project of themselves . |
| 22 | Others merely maintain the general atmosphere of menace and despair , while giving shape to a scene which could otherwise so easily have become itself rambling and melodramatic . |
| 23 | But there are now several recognised cooking methods that not only maintain the standards of traditional cooking , but improve on them . |
| 24 | We only maintain the cenotaph memorials for the Royal British Legion . ’ |
| 25 | Colleagues , this motion falls upon the C E C and Labour MPs to mount a campaign to pressurize the government into providing adequate funding to not only maintain , but to improve much needed services . |
| 26 | As Souness punched the air in triumph , seeing a player he is ready to discard apparently maintain his side 's impressive recovery in the Premier League , Kendell sat motionless in the dug-out . |
| 27 | We can only maintain a healthy scepticism of any claims to place public welfare above private interest . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |
| 30 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |