Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] maintained " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formally the United States still maintained the myth that it would convert official holdings of dollars into gold at the old price of $35 , while informing other central banks that if they attempted to take advantage of this offer at all it would instantly be withdrawn . |
| 2 | However , the companies again maintained that the original 50-day time limit had been unrealistic . |
| 3 | WEIR Group yesterday maintained its proud , ten-years-straight record of increasing earnings every year in the teeth of the recession . |
| 4 | ISRAEL yesterday maintained an embarrassed official silence on the capture by US troops in Panama of Mike Harari , a former Mossad officer and close aide to the deposed Panamanian leader , General Manuel Noriega . |
| 5 | Owen Rowlands had slipped a little but at the end of this second day still maintained the lead on 132 . |
| 6 | The authorities now maintained that the bombing was an act of revenge for the April 1986 raid on Tripoli by US aircraft [ see pp. 34454-59 ] and that available evidence indicated sole Libyan responsibility . |
| 7 | Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress . |
| 8 | But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas-cooled design . |
| 9 | After three winners yesterday , he is only seven short of his century , while Jonothan Lower maintained his strike rate on the Pipe horses with a Taunton double on The Leggett and Ambassador , giving him 21 winners from just 34 rides . |
| 10 | After three winners yesterday , he is only seven short of his century , while Jonothan Lower maintained his strike rate on the Pipe horses with a Taunton double on The Leggett and Ambassador , giving him 21 winners from just 34 rides . |
| 11 | Nothing is known of its activities , but Vikings normally maintained themselves by raiding the country within a wide range of their base . |
| 12 | Britain still maintained ‘ her station as guardian of the general liberties of Europe and patron of mankind ’ ( Hume , 1906 : 76 ) . |
| 13 | A new Gaullist party , the Union pour la Nouvelle République ( UNR — Union for the New Republic ) , became the largest single party , in spite of the fact that de Gaulle carefully maintained his distance from it and did not play any role in the election campaign . |
| 14 | Some merchants there maintained that the old gods had served them well and would not be pleased by the withdrawal of sacrifices in favour of a foreign and untried god . |
| 15 | Alongside this and particularly following the Exeter commission , Fowler also maintained his connection with his native county where he had a long-standing patron in William Courtenay , tenth Earl of Devon , his works including the Totnes bridge ( 1826–8 ) , a small group of churches , and alterations to the Earl of Devon 's Powderham Castle ( 1837–48 ) . |
| 16 | Clearly the News of the World strongly maintained the tradition of the crime broadsheets through most of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | Despite the frequency of growth impairment during the course of childhood Crohn 's disease , the 67 children followed up until completion of linear growth ultimately maintained their height centile ( SDS for final height of -0.82 ( 1.11 ) v SDS for height at diagnosis of -1.14 ( 1.21 ) . |
| 18 | Senior PLO figures like Hani al-Hassan nevertheless maintained the theme of support for Iraq . |