Example sentences of "have maintain " in BNC.

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1 This also gets round problems of fluctuation , when business is slow , they do not have to maintain a regular workforce .
2 My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed .
3 Legally , you do not have to maintain 500 ft between you and the sea ; but you do have to keep that distance between you and any vessel on the sea .
4 Mr. Wilson : I thought that the Hon. Gentleman , as a Government Whip , would have to maintain his position on the Bench .
5 For example , during an instrument let-down you will have to maintain a rate of descent on your final approach which may be any figure up to 1000 ft/min .
6 It tended to arrange debates late at night , and much too close to the critical Council meeting , when it realized it would otherwise have to maintain a parliamentary reserve in the Council if scrutiny had not been completed by a debate .
7 Alexander II was well advised , at the point of emancipation , to plan an elaborate security operation , but he did not have to maintain it indefinitely .
8 We will have to maintain material in standard , technology independent forms , as ‘ logical ’ rather than ‘ physical ’ records .
9 They could always have maintained of course that , whatever the poet 's intentions , the poem as an achieved entity answered to their interpretations .
10 No doubt Sewell would have maintained the old order but there were forces outside the College working for change .
11 Others may have maintained a long-term extra-marital affair .
12 As a result , he gives a slightly different portrait of a more experimental painter , dictated less by logic than intuition , and pursuing a development which was not as rigid as the artist 's admirers would have maintained .
13 Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony .
14 Celtic chiefs , Anglo-Saxon kinglets and the ecclesiastical dignitaries of medieval and early modern Europe must have maintained their own schools of specialized craftsmen absolved from the common round of labour .
15 It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances .
16 Such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children by their early and traumatic weaning of them , but would also have maintained them in a passive and otherwise dependent state , not because of their passive maternal solicitude , but because of their aggressive , assertive masculinity which caused them to dominate their children rather as a father might .
17 Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony .
18 He would probably have maintained that minding his own business would never have got him anywhere , least of all starring on radio .
19 If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future .
20 You could n't possibly have maintained that if it were n't true . ’
21 ‘ We still have them to play twice and reducing the nine-point gap would have maintained the element of doubt about the outcome of the championship .
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