Example sentences of "could be maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it could be maintained that when Pound left |
| 2 | Success or failure have thus depended on the devices by which a balance could be maintained between the preservative and the destructive effects of envy . |
| 3 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 4 | By retaining the other elements of the plan of this block , the main entrance that had been created in 1959 could be maintained as the ‘ front door ’ with the bathroom/WC being reached from the adjacent entrance hall ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 5 | But the message went further for it was felt that the lesson to be learned was that living standards could be maintained if unity prevailed : ‘ With the help of the Trade Union Movement , mobilized by the TUC General Council , they were enabled to secure a victory which they could not have won if they were left to fight alone . ’ |
| 6 | Although some Labour politicians clung to the belief that peace could be maintained , most had come to accept that war was inevitable by 1936 , confirmed in their opinion by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War . |
| 7 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 8 | Some of their arguments , such as that their professional standards were higher than could be maintained by law — as envisaged in the legislation — had a ring of truth to them . |
| 9 | However , as members of the Cambridge Board Committee , both the District Chairman and Secretary were fully apprised of the details of the new arrangements and , presumably , acquiesced in the explicit transfer of providing powers under Chapter III for One-Year and Terminal courses in rural areas so that the complete scheme in Bedfordshire could be maintained as it had developed from 1927 . |
| 10 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 11 | that birth parents would be less reluctant to physically relinquish a child for adoption , if existing links could be maintained . |
| 12 | It is hard to envisage how an ecosystem such as that of the mud-flats could be maintained , were it not for the tides . |
| 13 | Although this treatment was undoubtedly efficacious in some cases , the patients ended up with malaria , and so a ‘ fever box ’ was developed in which the patient 's temperature could be maintained at over 106°F for several hours . |
| 14 | But it was his experience as a Sunday-school teacher which left him wondering how discipline could be maintained with older boys and how they could be kept in touch with the Church once they became wage-earners and left the Sunday school . |
| 15 | It would then suggest ways of meeting these needs in the short and long term so that the quality of the staff could be maintained and developed . |
| 16 | The implication of this conclusion is that full employment could be maintained if the government operated an elaborate system of job subsidy schemes . |
| 17 | The coal-mining studies provided evidence that groups of this size could be maintained and could sustain self-regulation . |
| 18 | There were few air raids in 1942 and 1943 and a more or less normal tram service could be maintained in Croydon . |
| 19 | The only possible way was to the north-east and east along Glen Spean where a level contour could be maintained for nearly twenty miles until , at Tulloch , the first opportunity of circumventing the mountain barrier was presented by the deep trench of Loch Treig to the south and reached by a steep gradient . |
| 20 | While accepting that if national productivity increased at the then current rate and priority in the allocation of social expenditure was given to the elderly , the current pension-policies could be maintained , the Philips Committee stressed the magnitude of the commitments being entered into on behalf of future generations of taxpayers . |
| 21 | With most of the Russian plutonium in weapons , either ready for service or held in reserve , control of materials could be maintained by locking up bombs . |
| 22 | CTL activity was inhibitable by an anti-CD8 monoclonal antibody , M236 , a gift from R. W. Knowles ( Sloane-Kettering , New York ) and CTL lines could be maintained by weekly restimulation with peptide-pulsed irradiated autologous B cell lines . |
| 23 | Now 48 sites which could be maintained by local authorities have been identified . |
| 24 | But he took a more optimistic view than Bagehot and believed that constitutionalism could be maintained by the British practice of ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ . |
| 25 | By facilitating the recycling of resources from surplus to deficit economies , the system 's stability was placed in jeopardy unless the flows could be maintained . |
| 26 | The other system stressed that alliances could be maintained by remarriage and could be used to improve social standing . |
| 27 | For the moment , in the north , it could be maintained by Chinese approval or at least complaisance and by keeping the French out . |
| 28 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 29 | This relation could be maintained , or replaced by tax revenue ( 7 ) bearing particularly on the rentiers . |
| 30 | Here the ‘ us and them ’ view of the village society could be maintained in the face of an ‘ official ’ credo in which no conflicts of interest were perceived or admitted . |