Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] maintain [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi would regard it as a failure to preserve or maintain the function of symbols and a degeneration of their purpose . |
| 2 | Both of these more recent studies , like Bell 's work , indicate that class is a dimension of exchanges of money between kin , in that the purpose of such exchanges in middle-class families is to enable younger generations to establish or maintain a life-style similar to that of their parents . |
| 3 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 4 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 5 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 6 | In the current commuting age , when there are diverse calls on people 's time and energies and the countryside is constantly under pressure from urban development , the village community is anxious to retain the village 's rural character , whilst acknowledging the need to attract and maintain a balanced community . |
| 7 | If so , the purr helps to establish and maintain a close relationship . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union would provide the IMF with such information as was required from Fund members and would allow the Fund to establish and maintain a resident office in the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | To establish and maintain a library . |
| 10 | Dear FoE supporter , As a supporter of Friends of the Earth , I know how much you want to establish and maintain a safe and clean environment for us all . |
| 11 | The effect of marriage between cousins is to secure and maintain the boundaries of the kin group and the resources which it controls , by ensuring that no one takes anything out of the kin group when they marry , and that strangers are not introduced ( Tillion , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | If on the other hand residential accommodation is granted for a term at a rent with exclusive possession , the landlord providing neither attendance nor services , the grant is a tenancy ; any express reservation to the landlord of limited rights to enter and view the state of the premises and to repair and maintain the premises only serves to emphasise the fact that the grantee is entitled to exclusive possession and is a tenant . |
| 13 | This difference in size between the sexes has evolved because males have to fight in order to obtain and maintain a harem , and bigger males are better fighters . |
| 14 | 3 ) landowners and farmers to use farm subsidies to provide and maintain a network of paths , to convert buildings for overnight accommodation , and to employ wardens to care for the countryside ; |
| 15 | One could use the intent and motive argument to claim that to maintain the standing of the House one should seriously devalue and perhaps scrap early-day motions . |
| 16 | Such organisations are flexible and constantly changing : they adapt to the environment in order to create or maintain the conditions necessary for success in the task , and do not become a mere part of the machinery as , for example , project teams are disbanded as soon as their task has been completed . |
| 17 | Surely he must strengthen the squad although the willingness of the directors to produce the kind of serious money needed to purchase and maintain a squad equal to Man Utd 's or Liverpool must be in doubt . |
| 18 | Johnson Matthey continues to set and maintain the highest quality standards which have been recognised by quality audits and awards by our customers worldwide . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the Society . |
| 20 | Jazz shares many themes with its predecessor , the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved : the conflict between the interests of the community and the individual 's attempts to create and maintain a separate self ; the importance of communal responsibility . |
| 21 | Women 's efforts to create and maintain a home are found in all cultures , and it is these efforts that the Lady of the Hearth represents . |
| 22 | The French , though not active in the field , are utilising Japanese funds to create and maintain a database of the archives compiled by the École Française d'Extrëme Orient ( efeo ) , which conducted expeditions in Indochina from 1908 to 1974 . |
| 23 | A scarifier is a sound investment for anyone aiming to create and maintain a first-class lawn . |
| 24 | Governments have to create and maintain the conditions for success . |
| 25 | UNTAG 's mandate to create and maintain an atmosphere conducive to the holding of free elections , and to supervise the independence process , had begun on April 1 , 1989 . |
| 26 | A full description of the steps required to install and maintain a new LIFESPAN system is given in the manual ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ . |
| 27 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 28 | This was well and good as was the promise that it could show how ‘ to cultivate and maintain a positive mind , even in the face of adversity . ’ |
| 29 | The Medical Research Council proposed to erect and maintain a public health laboratory in the grounds of St. Peter 's Hospital and this was approved , the building being leased to the M.R.C. for 25 years . |
| 30 | Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things . |