Example sentences of "[adv] maintain [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 2 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 3 | But , whatever their importance in economic terms , the number of middling peasant holdings not only maintained itself , but even increased sometimes . |
| 4 | From January 1987 a system of periodic licensing was introduced , whereby nurses , midwives and health visitors wishing to remain on the SPR , and so maintain their eligibility to practise , must pay a periodic fee every three years . |
| 5 | As Souness punched the air in triumph , seeing a player he is ready to discard apparently maintain his side 's impressive recovery in the Premier League , Kendell sat motionless in the dug-out . |
| 6 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |
| 7 | She had no wish to overtake him , only to maintain her distance , and keep track of his movements if she could . |
| 8 | Taken together , however , these figures mean no more and no less than services managing to expand rapidly enough to maintain their overall world share whereas manufacturing steadily dropped way behind in this race . |
| 9 | She is feminine enough to maintain her own identity . |
| 10 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 11 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 12 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 13 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 14 | Stork until recently has personally maintained his hold on the majority of the equity in order , he says , to help set the direction of the firm . |
| 15 | This restrained aloofness has had its drawbacks : it has given the bellicose idealists of the Left freedom to ride roughshod with impunity over institutions which have hitherto maintained our nation as civilised and admirable . |
| 16 | In addition to the success of the LDP in broadly maintaining its position , its PKO allies — the DSP and Komeito — also performed well enough to ensure that they could continue to offer the LDP an overall majority in the upper house . |
| 17 | Those countries which had the best record of increasing productivity in the 1960s and 1970s , such as Kenya and Cameroun , are no longer maintaining their momentum . |
| 18 | Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash . |
| 19 | Nothing is known of its activities , but Vikings normally maintained themselves by raiding the country within a wide range of their base . |
| 20 | Despite the high prevalence of growth impairment , the subset of childen who had reached maturity by the time of the study ( n=67 ) nevertheless maintained their height centile . |
| 21 | He was the Bears ' top scorer , a point better than his captain , Steve Regeling , who nevertheless maintained his excellent consistency . |
| 22 | Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress . |
| 23 | ‘ But we could easily maintain our standard of living while using less electricity . |
| 24 | Is an agreement by a husband separately to maintain his wife , if she will not ‘ molest ’ him , a binding contract ? |
| 25 | LONDON Monarchs , who have lost two of their three World League games , must beat Birmingham Fire , of Alabama , who have won twice , at Wembley tonight to maintain their challenge for a play-off place . |
| 26 | It seems that that recent $1m+ investment in Chorus Systemes SA by Altus Finance , a subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais , one of Europe 's largest banks ( UX No 382 ) , has spurred Unix System Laboratories to increase its $1m investment in the firm just to maintain its share : however , the companies do n't want to reveal how much USL added to the kitty or what percentage it controls for fear of giving away the valuation . |
| 27 | Women as much or more than men everywhere in the world — up to 13 hours more than men in Africa and Asia and very poor women are working 60–90 hours per week just to maintain their living standards of a decade ago . |
| 28 | In an official statement , Mr Marchant said : ‘ Due to the current competitive trading position within our market we are having to cut prices and offer special deals just to maintain our sales at 1992 levels . ’ |
| 29 | Can you tell us how best to maintain it as winter approaches and how to stop it freezing up |
| 30 | FURTHER MAINTAINING our promise to publish contemporary writers of quality , we welcome Milan Kundera [ The Wave , page 92 ] to British Esquire . |