Example sentences of "[verb] maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work , which is interesting but time-consuming , involves maintaining the almshouse , or the Dakyn Flats as it is now more popularly known , and other properties owned by the trust and from which rents are collected . |
| 2 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 3 | Contacting more than , say , three potential purchasers will make maintaining confidentiality more difficult yet increases the chances of finding the ‘ right ’ purchaser . |
| 4 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 5 | They helped maintain concern , but ultimately also divisive debate , over suppression of the transatlantic slave trade and whether or not the encouragement of free-labour staples , combined with consumer boycotts of slave-grown produce , could convert slaveholders into emancipators by forcing them to revise their calculations of economic interest . |
| 6 | The Sunday working at Sainsbury helped maintain the household 's income , she said . |
| 7 | These were the Jews who helped maintain the camp and who , like Wolski , had by luck and chance avoided the death that fell upon the majority of the 250,000 Jews who came to Sobibor . |
| 8 | Instead , the accruals accounts would have to be modified to maintain the current cost of assets . |
| 9 | Northampton , who must win to maintain a league challenge to Orrell and Bath , the front-runners , are without Ian Hunter , who damaged a hamstring on Hong Kong Sevens duty , and Tim Rodber , the England and Army forward , who , like Underwood , has to give Service duties priority . |
| 10 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 11 | The more you diet , the less food you will need to maintain you . |
| 12 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 13 | We also have concerns about how it could erm fit in to er the countryside erm of the area er with particular reference to erm paragraph thirty three of P P G three which states that erm the net effect of any new settlement will be to enhance the environmental cause only modest environmental impact , the area in Hambledon , as Mr Wincup outlined yesterday erm is occupied essentially by the vale of York , it 's an essentially flat and rolling landscape , er the intensification of agriculture 's produced a very open landscape erm in that area erm there are few erm landscape elements to reduce into visibility , erm there are no significant areas of derelict land which could be , which would be reclaimed or enhanced erm by a new settlement , erm and the Council believes that it would be very difficult to assimilate a new settlement into this landscape , and it would be er visible over extensive areas , to touch on erm the point raised by erm the panel about self sufficiency and self containment erm I think it 's recognized in the explanatory memorandum , erm to policy H two that a new settlement will need to maintain social and economic links with a city , erm perhaps from some , this statement is explicit that erm York will continue to exert considerable influence in terms of employment , social , and community links , erm and it 's unlikely that facilities which have provided a new settlement will divert much , if an , if er any , erm of this er demand for travel . |
| 14 | At least , it will need to maintain a high level of competition and innovativeness in order to survive . |
| 15 | Signs are that it fell into disuse during the period after the Romans had left and legendary Celtic leaders , such as Arthur , were endeavouring to maintain civilised standards against waves of barbarian invaders . |
| 16 | Whatever its legal status , considerable amounts of money have recently been spent endeavouring to maintain it . |
| 17 | Those who have to organise fishing events , and any club or individual who wants to maintain records with any degree of detail , will appreciate this program . |
| 18 | The conclusion is self evident — if the Chancellor wants to maintain the real value of excise duties from alcoholic drinks he must switch the burden of taxes from spirits to beers and wines . |
| 19 | Bulking agents are sometimes added to maintain easy pathways for nutrients ( especially oxygen ) to get to microorganisms , rather than everything collapsing into a mass that is not conducive to diffusion . |
| 20 | In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography . |
| 21 | KLM , meanwhile , is expected to maintain a reduced involvement in Northwest , ‘ keeping its foot in the door ’ , one analyst suggested , until US policy of foreign ownership becomes more clear . |
| 22 | In the 1960s , under the Sandys plan , a regular army of only 165,000 was expected to maintain stability in the colonial Empire as well as keeping BAOR at 55,000 men — not an inviting prospect . |
| 23 | However , I am expected to maintain the image of an angling guru , and all too frequently this uncomfortable mask slips ; generally leaving me red-faced with embarrassment , furiously attempting to devise some semi-acceptable excuse for rampant stupidity or lack of skill . |
| 24 | Poland had by now withdrawn most of its trade through the city to its own port at Gdynia , and the Reich could hardly be expected to maintain or guarantee for an indefinite period the subsidy the city required.20 Lipski and Göring agreed that Germany and Poland should draw together in an understanding that they would jointly stabilise the city if the League should either collapse or decide to withdraw from Danzig . |
| 25 | Preference will be given to applicants with some experience in consulting for industry , government or international organisations , and the successful applicant will be expected to maintain an active interest in consulting in these areas . |
| 26 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 27 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
| 28 | But for most of the king 's vassals , who did not inhabit the Iranian heartland , the benefit took the form of gifts of land like medieval fiefs , in return for which the man ‘ enfeoffed ’ was expected to maintain a levy of troops . |
| 29 | A manufacturing company would be expected to maintain a 1:1 ratio to be credit worthy . |
| 30 | The ratio measuring this ability , often called the ‘ acid test ’ is A manufacturing company would be expected to maintain a 1 : 1 ratio to be credit worthy . |