Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] maintain [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 2 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 3 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 4 | In the current commuting age , when there are diverse calls on people 's time and energies and the countryside is constantly under pressure from urban development , the village community is anxious to retain the village 's rural character , whilst acknowledging the need to attract and maintain a balanced community . |
| 5 | If so , the purr helps to establish and maintain a close relationship . |
| 6 | The Soviet Union would provide the IMF with such information as was required from Fund members and would allow the Fund to establish and maintain a resident office in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Jazz shares many themes with its predecessor , the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved : the conflict between the interests of the community and the individual 's attempts to create and maintain a separate self ; the importance of communal responsibility . |
| 8 | A scarifier is a sound investment for anyone aiming to create and maintain a first-class lawn . |
| 9 | A full description of the steps required to install and maintain a new LIFESPAN system is given in the manual ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ . |
| 10 | This was well and good as was the promise that it could show how ‘ to cultivate and maintain a positive mind , even in the face of adversity . ’ |
| 11 | The Medical Research Council proposed to erect and maintain a public health laboratory in the grounds of St. Peter 's Hospital and this was approved , the building being leased to the M.R.C. for 25 years . |
| 12 | Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things . |
| 13 | From the outset , in this model , technological insights interact with perceptions of market needs and cost-benefit analyses to generate and maintain a clear understanding of how the innovation can be profitably introduced . |
| 14 | To build and maintain a semantic net , indexing of paragraphs and semantic net construction go hand-in-hand . |
| 15 | This is because of the complex storage management required to build and maintain the internal data structures used to manipulate dictionary entries for editing and display purposes . |
| 16 | It has the advantage of being in the context of a ‘ normal ’ worshipping congregation , where it is possible to develop and maintain the vital art of good relationships between clergy , organist and choir . |
| 17 | Many older people will have failed to develop and maintain an adequate network of friends and social activities . |
| 18 | There is provision for Member States to pay at a level above the stated maximum in order ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ but such increased payments will not be eligible for EEC refund so are very unlikely to be implemented . |
| 19 | Any enhancement of HLCA payments ( Articles 13–15 ) ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ should be reimbursed by EEC funds and should be linked to conservative needs , e. g. agreed stocking levels below those that could be supported for purely agricultural objectives . |
| 20 | The duty is phrased more positively in terms of support for families rather than diminishing the need to take children into care ; the duty is , though , owed to ‘ children in need ’ , defined in terms of disability , significant impairment of health or development , and failure to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services . |
| 21 | This may be accounted for by recalling that the Survey 's function is to prepare and maintain the geological map of the United Kingdom ( including offshore areas ) . |