Example sentences of "[verb] and maintaining a " in BNC.

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1 John Bowlby , the man who pioneered what has become known as ‘ attachment theory ’ , drew a military analogy to underline the importance of establishing and maintaining a secure base in handling unfamiliar and threatening situations :
2 One highly important way in which capital gains an advantage in this conflict is , they claim , through capital establishing and maintaining a dominant ideology which legitimates the status quo .
3 This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall .
4 Amongst the disincentives to compiling and maintaining a special classification scheme can be numbered the following :
5 It could also be argued that the costs involved in installing and maintaining a marginal costing system is less costly vis-a-vis full costing system .
6 And to what extent will top management have to accept as its top priority making and maintaining a common vision across professional specialties ?
7 OPEC succeeded in imposing and maintaining a major increase : oil prices quadrupled during the winter of 1973–4 , raising the oil producers ' annual revenue by around $64 billion .
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