Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to maintain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preventive behaviour describes those activities designed to reduce the risk of developing an illness , while maintenance describes activities designed to maintain and , perhaps , improve health . |
| 2 | Soon the " Hays Office " was issuing elaborate rules designed to maintain moral standards on the screen . |
| 3 | At the same time , the protectorate 's authorities want to maintain high standards of financial propriety with strict rules . |
| 4 | The progression is familiar — demands by labour ; followed by rising prices , leading to inadequate investment ; followed by loss of overseas markets ; then devaluation ; loss of jobs ; and higher taxes to try to maintain expected standards of living and of medical care . |
| 5 | Nothing looks more lamentably depressing than shelves sagging wearily in the middle , with decent books struggling to maintain a dignified upright posture . |
| 6 | A person 's total daily need for calories is the amount of calories needed to maintain BMR plus the calories needed for movement , i.e. physical activity . |
| 7 | The duration of such responses would , however , be too great to allow the rapid succession of contractions needed to maintain the high frequency of the wing beat in many efficient flyers . |
| 8 | This is the more necessary , the Commission believes , at a time when the bias in schools has shifted towards instrumental music and composition , although a fair number of state secondary and senior independent schools continue to maintain a strong tradition of choral singing . |
| 9 | An expert team of tutors helps to maintain and improve standards . |
| 10 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 11 | A change in input prices of goods and services used and financed by the business will affect the amount of funds required to maintain the operating capability of the net operating assets , i.e. fixed assets , stock and monetary working capital . |
| 12 | The patterns of employment in Britain are being re-structured by employers seeking to maintain their market position during the current recession , and introduce new technology . |
| 13 | The sphere of institutions undertake to maintain the process which aims at reproducing the idea of a common consciousness among the people . |
| 14 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 15 | Can he confirm that there will be no discrimination against state schools , for which the majority of parents still exercise a preference , or in favour of the segregated education system that the Roman Catholic Church and most Catholic parents want to maintain ? |
| 16 | Alternatively , and like another important example of advanced technology — the word processor — they may induce defensive responses ( see Barker and Downing , 1980 ) : responses designed to maintain or regain occupants ' previous levels of control over their environmental conditions . |
| 17 | The important result is that in an uncertain world companies like to maintain a stable payout ratio over the long run . |
| 18 | Whenever you visit a beauty salon , attend a yoga class or experience a float , try and check that the operator or teacher is a member of the relevant professional association — these associations exist to maintain standards within the profession . |
| 19 | Moderate land reform was a cau cautious approach in in that how that the communists had to maintain a fragile balanc balance between the two fundamental aims of the maintenance of support and the increase of production . |
| 20 | Indeed , the findings of Brown and Harris ( 1978 ) suggest that a job outside the home may in certain circumstances help to maintain a mother 's mental health , in which case it may be beneficial to her relationships with her children . |
| 21 | The general shape of the argument is that of a context of deindustrialization in which cities are hit harder as companies struggle to maintain profitability . |
| 22 | The service is used principally by banks , utilities , credit referencing agencies , and companies needing to maintain regular contact with customers . |
| 23 | He has to judge the public acceptability of early release and to determine the policies needed to maintain public confidence in the system of criminal justice . |
| 24 | says that BAS intends to maintain its current level of scientific activity and that there are no plans for redundancies among BAS staff . |
| 25 | Despite some pressure from sales staff to be allowed a more adventurous policy of price cutting and quantity marketing , the Boards agreed to maintain manufacturers ' list prices in order not to offend competing retailers , though there was some disguised price-cutting in their favourable hire purchase terms , especially for cookers . |
| 26 | Both the Israeli and the Lebanese governments made public statements pledging to maintain control of the key town of Jezzine , situated on the northernmost tip of the " security zone " . |
| 27 | The increasing number of mortgage repossessions , the increasing interest costs to the UK manufacturing sector , the distortion of the foreign exchange market , the wage demands induced as workers seek to maintain their living standards and the large , gratuitous redistribution of income from debtors to creditors result in painful and often irreversible dislocations . |
| 28 | The limited number of large power stations , a comparatively small work-force with little history of industrial action , and a strong , centralized organization made it an attractive proposition for governments wanting to maintain clear control over energy supply . |
| 29 | Most libraries try to maintain a comprehensive , updated collection of catalogues as bibliographical checking tools , but many also use them for book selection . |
| 30 | As we shall see in Chapter 6 , trading in existing stocks helps to maintain their liquidity , makes them attractive to savers and thereby lowers the cost to borrowers of raising new capital in this way . |