Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] can still [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them can still be seen — for example , the church of St-Hilaire-le-Grand in Poitiers , or the lower church of St Eutropius , who was believed to be a descendant of Xerxes of Persia , in Saintes . |
| 2 | Whereas , as we have seen , primal societies use the initiation and totemic rituals to instil whatever rudimentary superego-formation is necessary for the conduct of their social life , modern societies have more or less totally abandoned these rituals and anything resembling them ( although vestiges of them can still be found in some educational and penal institutions ) . |
| 3 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 4 | Further north along Corso Venezia is Palazzo Serbelloni , an enormous building in Neo-Classical style created in 1793 for Duke Serbelloni by the enlarging of a seventeenth-century palazzo , part of which can still be seen — the brick section in Via San Damiano . |
| 5 | The site later became known as the Vulcan Works , now demolished , and produced castings and iron gratings , some of which can still be seen in the village , and elsewhere throughout the county . |
| 6 | It was 8 years before a new bridge was completed beside the remains of the old , the stumps of which can still be seen . |
| 7 | The brothers converted part of the building to make a chapel , and set up an industry in old railway huts which produced exquisite ecclesiastical embroideries , many of which can still be seen in local churches . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Among the earliest souvenirs to be hawked to the victorious Allied troops who marched into Beirut on 8 October 1917 was a horrific picture postcard , old copies of which can still be found in the antiquarian bookshop that sells the David Roberts lithographs on Makhoul Street . |
| 10 | The Norman church was much larger than its present day form , having a north transept of which the arches leading to it can still be seen . |