Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [modal v] still [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If boys are untidy and present their material poorly their work can still be praised , and if boys are neat and tidy , their work can be praised too . |
| 2 | Although examples of their work can still be found today , a newer , rather more modern artist has also discovered the humble screen . |
| 3 | An important assessment of the state of the subject is provided by the Leeds Festschrift ( Harden 1956a ) which can be seen to develop many of the traditional themes ; the study of the Jutes of Kent , by C.F.C. Hawkes , stimulated by the latest typologies and chronologies of grave-goods on the Continent ( Werner 1935 ; Kuhn 1940 ) was one of the last studies employing the traditional methodology , although its influence can still be found in more recent work ( Hawkes and Pollard 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Ashenden left immediately , with the manifold brief of herding his flock together , of informing the coach-driver of the postponed departure , of phoning Broughton Castle to cancel the special out-of-season arrangements ; of explaining to the Stratford hotel the cancellation of the thirty lunches booked for 1 p.m. ; and finally of reassuring the lunchtime guest-speaker from the Royal Shakespeare Company that her fee would still be paid . |
| 5 | Its outline may still be traced despite the extensive Victorianisation of 1836 , which clad the original structure with granite facings and extended upwards and sideways . |
| 6 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 7 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 8 | Even though they have a baby , sleeping with their boyfriend may still be regarded with disapproval , unless the baby 's father has moved in . |
| 9 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 10 | ‘ Because his heart would still be troubled . ’ |
| 11 | He was buried under the still-skeletal St Paul 's of Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] , in the chapel of St Faith 's , where his monument can still be seen . |
| 12 | His security could still be threatened at the one point left vulnerable . |
| 13 | Do you think in ten or twenty years , your life will still be structured around these playground antagonisms ? |
| 14 | If you are in hospital , your pension can still be paid to you . |
| 15 | If you have had a licence refused or revoked for medical reasons your application may still be considered . |