Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] still [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We will not go into great detail on the dangers of using statistics here but merely point to some precautions which must still be taken even when using statistics which are generally regarded as reliable .
2 Although he died in 1807 , he had by then planned the ‘ canalization ’ of the three rivers and the construction of the walls alongside them which can still be seen today .
3 Such building , multiplied many times over , provided France with a network of fortified towns ( some of them very large by the standards of the day ) , impressive traces of which can still be seen today .
4 There are more than 350 lots , which were on view at Sotheby 's in New Bond Street , London , earlier this month and which can still be seen today and tomorrow at the Assembly Rooms before the sale begins .
5 The interior is finished in leather and boasts luxuries such as a compact disc player which can still be heard clearly at 200mph .
6 The original building ( which can still be discerned today ) was a simple block of rectangular plan adjoining a ‘ breast-shot ’ waterwheel , powered by a mill-stream fed from the River Mole .
7 Fucking hell , go for it then , we 've got all night , we do n't have dinner till one o'clock so it do n't matter , we 'll still be sat here .
8 While DCs are in this state , no modifications may be made to the modules , although they may still be read out of LIFESPAN .
9 She said people did not have to view the show if they were likely to find it offensive and while she found some photographs disturbing they should still be shown so people could form their own opinions .
10 They could still be distinguished internally by their thinly-upholstered wooden seats upstairs .
11 But the families in the little awkward places , at the heads of the small glens , on boggy ground that would not drain — they were nearly helpless , they trembled on the threshold of destitution , impaled on the horn of the one-year lease , uncertain whether it was worth going into debt to improve the ground and knowing that , even if they did , they could still be turned out next term day and their place annexed to the holding of a better-off neighbour .
12 They can still be seen there .
13 But they can still be drawn very widely .
14 With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown .
15 It could still be seen there in the fourteenth century .
16 The effect unsettled him , and he found the fact that he could still be unsettled somehow curious .
17 So if I mess it up then now , when you come over to pick me up later it shall still be messed up ?
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