Example sentences of "in [noun sg] to maintain the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference , by a vote of 16 to one with 11 abstentions ( and nine of the 37 IWC member countries not present ) , agreed in effect to maintain the ban on commercial whaling at least for one further year . |
| 2 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 3 | Overall , we found very strong support for the idea of basing the new qualifications on existing modular provision in Scotland , in order to maintain the coherence of our national qualifications framework . |
| 4 | The log interpretation lithological model reflects the core information as much as possible with the restriction that the number of unknowns ( minerals ) is limited by the number of logs recorded in order to maintain the stability of the computation model . |
| 5 | Thus , in order to maintain the stability of capitalist regimes at home , social welfare concessions were granted and , slowly , popular representation was allowed . |
| 6 | However , in order to maintain the advantage gained by thinking in terms of practices rather than individuals , it is important to guard against the danger of tacitly converting a practice into a ‘ starting-point ’ . |
| 7 | In order to maintain the support of data depositors it is essential to consider what benefits accrue to depositors as a result of the dissemination of their data . |
| 8 | Blum , on the other hand , was looking to a more distant future when the French might have to withdraw entirely and in order to maintain the position of influence in the future he believed that the only firm foundation was a break with the past . |
| 9 | In order to maintain the integrity of the offlined files , each file is verified at a rate determined for a particular installation . |
| 10 | For example , relatively high rates of inflation in one country will tend to produce balance of payments ‘ deficits ’ and a downward pressure on the exchange rate ; such a country thus faces the necessity of imposing anti-inflationary policies in order to maintain the exchange rate . |
| 11 | ‘ We need £30,000 in order to maintain the level of service we 've achieved this year , with four holidays involving 172 children . |
| 12 | Are these cells that were originally recruited to the CD45R0 pool by antigen , or do some enter this pool during non-antigen-driven cell division in order to maintain the size of the peripheral lymphocyte pool , an idea supported by the rat experiments ? |
| 13 | But , in order to maintain the services to our members , unions will probably still have to increase rates at an annual basis . |
| 14 | In order to maintain the illusion that the Indian Union , though a republic in form as well as in reality , remained nevertheless part of the same political entity as the United Kingdom , the British in effect abolished their monarchy itself . |
| 15 | Despite his strong showings in New Hampshire and Georgia , Buchanan admitted that he needed to win a state in order to maintain the momentum of his campaign . |
| 16 | In a friendly merger , the smaller company can agree to make the share exchange offer for the larger company in order to maintain the listing . |
| 17 | What we are going to do is find a diet that not only helps you to achieve effective weight loss , but is really healthy , suits your individual needs , and can be followed for years to come in order to maintain the weight and shape you want . |
| 18 | They were , almost without exception , young scions of old notable families of the towns they now represented , persuaded by their families to stand for election in order to maintain the family interest . |
| 19 | Two of the agreements even noted that the job satisfaction of a minority of employees might be impaired by new technology but accepted this in order to maintain the security of employment of the majority . |
| 20 | Interest is added each year at the rate of inflation for the previous year in order to maintain the value of the loan in real terms . |
| 21 | Companies , it is claimed , will put their energies into short-term performance and the payment of high dividends in order to maintain the value of their stock exchange listing , at the cost of long term planning and investment that would ultimately be of far greater benefit for the company , its investors and the economy as a whole . |
| 22 | In order to maintain the authority of the teacher or librarian and to make pupils aware that microcomputers do not exist merely for playing games but have a wider range of educational applications , it is important for the librarian or teacher to have basic knowledge of microcomputers . |
| 23 | The marketing department also ensures that the image and promotion standards set are applied consistently in order to maintain the strength and competitiveness of the trade name . |
| 24 | Should , for instance , link B need to be re-positioned ( due to , say , an object entering its model space ) , then an iterative procedure can be implemented in order to maintain the end of link C on reference point R. |
| 25 | ‘ They sold their Beverly Hills home on Doheney Drive earlier this year and now Britt is pinning her hopes on becoming the new Jackie Collins in order to maintain the lifestyle she became used to after marrying Peter Sellers . |
| 26 | Teaching sessions on a withdrawal basis may be frequently timetabled and , although these are usually helpful to the pupil mastering basic skills or concepts , they should be monitored carefully in order to maintain the balance of the curriculum . |
| 27 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 28 | It would , it seems to be implied , have suggested that the forces of civilisation ( the British police and legal system ) were capable of acting as savages , seeking to punish people guilty only through shared racial origins in order to maintain the appearance of control and order which civilised societies require . |
| 29 | If the current position of any one product is plotted correctly on its life-cycle , then it is possible to assess the potential growth of sales , or the degree to which prices should be allowed to soften in order to maintain the market share , or whether the product should be superseded by another . |
| 30 | The lenses will be as small and thin as possible and fit as loosely as appropriate in order to maintain the health of the eyes . |