Example sentences of "to maintain [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any decision that has been made has been with the best intentions of the people of at heart , to maintain as a leading European city and to derive benefits for the people of this community . |
| 2 | Any decision that has been made has been with the best intentions of the people of at heart , to maintain as a leading European city and to derive benefits for the people of this community . |
| 3 | As the story of a white woman who rides into the Mexican mountains to be sacrificed , naked and unprotesting , to the god of the Indians in order to maintain for them ‘ The mastery that man must hold , and that passes from race to race ’ , this piece , particularly when contrasted with Sweeney Agonistes , makes clear the essential difference between Eliot 's interest in the savage and that of Lawrence . |
| 4 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | In addition to their role as refuse removers , these crustaceans also provide a valuable food source for some fish , particularly Mandarins , which are next to impossible to maintain for long periods in aquaria which are not well stocked with inverts and living rock . |
| 6 | It is in fact one and three quarter miles long , which is a lot of tunnel to maintain for any permanent way gang , whom I do n't imagine relish the thought of working in the dark , damp , gloomy bore . |
| 7 | The house had become far too large and expensive to maintain for Aunt Lou and so it had been altered , the top half being made into a separate flat on the first floor and a studio apartment created in the former attics . |
| 8 | In their efforts to reduce surplus food production in the EC , the ministers agreed to maintain for another year the virtual freeze on farm prices ( when expressed in European currency units — ECU ) which had been in effect since 1987 [ see pp. 35534 ; 35915 ; 36493 ; 36599 ; 37209 ] . |
| 9 | However , within a CAD system not only is there a temptation to keep lots of versions of the same part , but every entity stored costs something to maintain throughout its natural life . |
| 10 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
| 11 | Fixed location is difficult to maintain with a fast-growing collection ; |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm thankful it was n't finished or it would be impossible to maintain with the small congregations we have . ’ |
| 13 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 14 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 15 | They were petty colonialists with a difficult position to maintain in a highly stratified , snobbish boom town on the world 's frontiers . |
| 16 | The greater the past achievement and the higher the social class , the more status individuals have been able to maintain in old age . |
| 17 | Each customer decides how much to maintain in the current account and then Balanced Banking sweeps any surplus into a high interest savings account . |
| 18 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 19 | In the event of such disclosure will obtain from such third parties ' duly binding agreements to maintain in confidence the information to be disclosed to the same extent at least as is so bound hereunder . |
| 20 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 21 | Any claim that , because there are competing interpretations , either is equally valid in the absence of knowledge of the programmer 's intentions in the matter , is impossible to maintain in the face of the long rolls of encashable instruments pouring out of its printer . |
| 22 | In particular , the myth of top-level political control over state decision-making is one which it is vital for incumbent presidents or premiers to maintain in order to reassure the mass public that someone is ‘ running the show ’ , and that ‘ the show ’ is still capable of being run coherently . |
| 23 | The labour test was unattractive both to the many of the unemployed , because it impaired their skills and prevented their seeking work elsewhere , and to Poor Law administrators , because discipline was difficult to maintain in the stoneyards . |
| 24 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 25 | The mushroom polyps are ( by coral standards ) among the easiest coelenterates to maintain in the aquarium ( though there are various situations in which they will not thrive ) . |
| 26 | Charlemagne sent gifts to him in late 795 or early 796 , but when Aethelred was killed in 796 and the Frankish envoys returned to Gaul with the news , Charles recalled his gifts , furious that the Northumbrians should murder their lord and holding them worse than pagans ; and this sudden loss of his Northumbrian protégé may well have endangered the delicate balance Charlemagne was seeking to maintain in England to circumscribe the power of Offa of Mercia ( see below , p. 176 ff . ) . |
| 27 | Indeed , being a composer may even be a drawback , for it might lessen the critical distance that the soloist needs to maintain in order to bring a fresh interpretation to bear . |
| 28 | T. E. Yates has tried to maintain in The Spirit and the Kingdom that this prophecy was fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus , for he . |
| 29 | Netting is sometimes sold to keep herons at bay , but this is difficult to maintain in good order , as plants become entangled in it and look unsightly . |
| 30 | In the light of this , it is worth noting that Article B of the Maastricht Treaty states that one of the objectives of the Union would be to maintain in full the ‘ acquis communautaire ’ , and build on it , which implies that there is to be no going back on the matters already governed by Community law . |