Example sentences of "[be] [adv] maintaining " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're young and you 're still maintaining them when you 're alive you ca n't pretend that they do n't exist when the will comes along . |
| 2 | Eliot stressed that there should be no maintaining of different attitudes for cathedral drama and for West End theatre . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there were many signs that the unions , while still losing members , were still maintaining their resistance against wage reduction . |
| 4 | If the rebel helots at Ithome were still maintaining their siege ( 465–455 are the dates Thucydides implies ) this use of manpower was reckless indeed ; so perhaps the text is wrong and the Ithome dates are really 465–460 . |
| 5 | I was told that the local authority were still maintaining an open mind about the possibility of placing the children with the father and that the choice of foster parents made in October was intended to cover the possibility of the children being returned to the father , but also to cover the possibility of a need for the children to be with foster parents for some longer time , in the event of the assessment of the father proving unsatisfactory . |
| 6 | Where conservation has already begun , bird species such as the red kite and white-tailed eagle are either maintaining a steady population or increasing in numbers . |
| 7 | Sukarno regained importance as consensus figure : ‘ If it should ever turn out that Sjahrir is not maintaining the demand for 100 per cent Merdeka … then I have the right to dismiss him ’ , he told a wildly cheering crowd on 17 February 1946 . |
| 8 | Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash . |
| 9 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 10 | One indication that Richard was still maintaining a more aggressive attitude than his father lies in the fact that when the constable of Gisors killed a French knight in a skirmish which occurred after the truce had been made he thought it wiser to take refuge with Richard . |