Example sentences of "to maintaining the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , having regard to maintaining the doctor 's primary duty , a Family Practitioners ' Committee is entitled to impose conditions limiting the number of visits per 1,000 patients which might be made by the deputising service , so as to prevent excessive use being made of a deputising service . |
| 2 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education . |
| 3 | The menstrual taboo , originally presented and applied with explicit reference to maintaining the purity of the Temple and its cultic participants , was in the first century AD recast in terms of family law and the purity of marriage within the domestic unit . |
| 4 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 5 | We are fully committed to maintaining the real value of child benefit . |
| 6 | Graham also reported that 12 of the 23 librarians had provided some form of budget estimates , though most of these had related largely to maintaining the existing value of materials funds by reporting on risen costs , from inflation such as the twice-yearly Average prices of British academic books and Blackwells 's information on periodical prices , together with other factors discussed in the section on public library budgeting above . |
| 7 | Isolation of those at the foot of the pyramid of authority , the Panopticon principle , was central to maintaining the image of the force on the street . |
| 8 | And the key to maintaining the regularity and discipline would be to walk out of my front door and do a circuit around the block and back home again . |
| 9 | The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control . |
| 10 | Imagineers are dedicated to maintaining the fantasy element of architectural experience by employing a kind of pixie dust that includes reducing — or increasing — the scale of buildings ( as in movie cartoons ) to give a feeling of make-believe , and by dribbling a large amount of twinkling , carnival-like lighting throughout . |
| 11 | With a military model of management in his mind , the individual manager is working on the assumption that conflict within the ‘ ranks ’ , so to speak , is impossible because all the jobs and statuses have been defined and all who take roles within that framework will be committed to maintaining the order of the enterprise which is engaged in ‘ battle ’ with a hostile environment , which is persecuting in its demands . |
| 12 | Since sterling entered the ERM in October 1990 , UK monetary policy has been wholly subordinated to maintaining the currency within its permitted fluctuation band ( 6% either side of a central rate of DM2.95 to the pound ) . |
| 13 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 14 | All is slanted to maintaining the Establishment stranglehold on vast tracts of land for their own selfish playgrounds . |
| 15 | typesize and layout have been chosen with a view to maintaining the flow of reading |
| 16 | They could also match political neutrality with economic autarky as a means to maintaining the autonomy of the state and its immunity to external pressures . |
| 17 | Prerequisite 10 : commitment to maintaining the flow of information |
| 18 | A lot of effort is devoted to maintaining the group 's image and its boundaries with the other groups in the wider environment . |
| 19 | Hegemony has to be won and is central to maintaining the status quo in legal enactment . |
| 20 | The GASB subsequently adopted an approach that is closer to the integral approach than the differential approach , though it is perhaps fair to say that the resulting list of user needs is closer to maintaining the status quo in governmental accounting while leaving the door open to the adoption of business accounting ideas in some areas . |
| 21 | How key is the vendor to maintaining the profitability of the business ? |
| 22 | In terms of policy there was little to differentiate the two main parties , with each committed to maintaining the essence of Labour 's laissez faire economic approach which had included extensive deregulation and privatization measures . |
| 23 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 24 | Our continued success in exploiting brands and technology worldwide is , above all , founded on our commitment to maintaining the stated values of our business which are — innovation , quality and service . |
| 25 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 26 | Mrs Shephard told farmers in her native Norfolk : ‘ Farming is a major industry whose importance to maintaining the health of rural life , both for those who work in the countryside and those who visit it is all too easily forgotten . |
| 27 | Mrs Shephard told farmers in her native Norfolk : ‘ Farming is a major industry whose importance to maintaining the health of rural life , both for those who work in the country- side and those who enjoy it as an amenity , is all too easily forgotten . |
| 28 | Yes , Clinton told the world 's press , he was personally committed to maintaining the ‘ special relationship ’ , and he was pleased to accept the advice of Major as the elder statesman . |