Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] maintaining " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material takes the form of supported self-study packages , so a student can work through most of the material alone while maintaining regular contact with a tutor . |
| 2 | Their research produced statistical evidence of the way in which TV news systematically favoured certain points of view of current events , rather than maintaining the balance that was claimed ( Glasgow University Media Group 1976 ; see also Glasgow University Media Group 1985 ) . |
| 3 | In 1987 the Community agreed to a package of measures which will create greater fare competition , will allow the airlines to increase market shares at each other 's expense ( rather than maintaining a rigid fifty/fifty split ) and will allow other airlines ( both from the bilateral partners and from other states ) to ply for trade on particular routes . |
| 4 | He said the prison would follow a methadone reduction programme rather than maintaining prisoners on the drug . |
| 5 | Well I , I , I , I think that you 've got to move in that direction rather than maintaining the status quo . |
| 6 | Warlock 's Serenade , where the composer rather borrows something of Delius 's style in act of homage , is a difficult piece to bring off , but Falkowski conducts watchfully and sensitively while maintaining a steady but flexible pulse . |
| 7 | He appreciates , too , that he must , in this instance , tread a diplomatic line between doing his job properly and maintaining good relations with club managers whose assistance he will need when fully competitive matches arise . |
| 8 | Hickson take pride in their ability to solve technical problems quickly while maintaining the highest safety standards . |
| 9 | Money is well spent in setting up and maintaining a properly serviced grass roots party organisation . |
| 10 | 5.2 The Project Manager shall also be responsible setting up and maintaining a mechanism by which operational changes in the Project thought necessary by any of the Parties are submitted to the Project Committee for approval . |
| 11 | Do n't waste your time setting up and maintaining expensive control procedures . |
| 12 | I am satisfied that the plaintiff is in a state where it is reasonably necessary to provide for the costs of setting up and maintaining a trust to handle the plaintiff 's financial interests over the years ahead . |
| 13 | He and Hunt became Britain 's most famous racing partnership as the 42-year-old Peer spent a large chunk of his personal fortune setting up and maintaining the Hesketh team , whose Grand Prix cars sported a red , white and blue livery . |
| 14 | The prime question is whether the gains in efficiency from having a more competitive financial system that involves a degree of consumer protection are outweighed by the costs of setting up and maintaining that regulatory system . |
| 15 | recognising reimbursable expenses attributable to jobs , categorising them correctly and maintaining their separation from the operating costs of the business ; |
| 16 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 17 | Two staff are dedicated to the business , visiting GKN regularly and maintaining paint stocks . |
| 18 | Indeed , it will be seen that dare can express a sense very close to its meaning as a modal even while maintaining most of the syntactic characteristics of a full verb , in which case it is used with the bare form — eloquent proof that the use of one or the other version of the infinitive is conditioned by meaning and not by automatically operating syntactic rules . |
| 19 | Thus , she has been able to move steadily rightwards while maintaining old links . |
| 20 | As well as maintaining his allegiance to Rome , Fr Jin is reported to have spoken out against government policies on contraception and abortion . |
| 21 | In foreign policy , while seldom innovative , he did try to carve out new relationships with Britain 's new European partners , especially through his close personal association with Helmut Schmidt , the West German chancellor and a fellow social democrat , as well as maintaining his contacts with the new US Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter . |
| 22 | It is a rare example of a Scottish company that went to the edge in the early 1980s ( Lord Tombs of Rolls-Royce was brought in as a company doctor to turn it around ) and emerge stronger on the other side as well as maintaining Scottish roots . |
| 23 | Laws were passed to make it easier for women to participate filly in the development of their country as well as maintaining their family life . |
| 24 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 25 | The charity still continues but as well as maintaining and providing extras for the school , grants are given for further education or books . |
| 26 | His readiness to acknowledge that God is all things to all men enables him to support the Dvaitin or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaitin or qualified non-Dualist positions as well as maintaining his own preference for Advaita or non-Dualism . |
| 27 | For as well as maintaining stately homes and castes , the National Trust is in the holiday home business . |
| 28 | This largely involves the receiving , processing and responding to planning applications from Local Authorities , as well as maintaining records . |
| 29 | Although there are some formidable technological hurdles to overcome , the concept is already being put into practice in several projects , most prominently from where Mace stands , in the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc effort to bring some of the functionality found in Motorola 's 680x0 and 88000 processor families onto the PowerPC RISC architecture the three are developing , as well as maintaining binary compatibility with IBM 's RS/6000 Power RISC . |
| 30 | The paper looks at the role of local authorities , and ways of stimulating demand for craft products as well as maintaining historic buildings . |