Example sentences of "it [vb mod] still be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ .
2 If the mark is unregistered it may still be protected by common law , and its owner could take steps to prevent its use by asking the court for an injunction under the tort of passing off .
3 The rules of the scheme provide that the application for arbitration must be made within nine months of the date of return from the holiday but in special circumstances it may still be offered outside this period .
4 The rules of the scheme provide that the application for arbitration must be made within nine months of the date of return from the holiday , but in special circumstances it may still be offered outside this period .
5 Rugs employing this scheme are becoming increasingly rare and , although it may still be found on some workshop items , the only group to use it with any regularity are the Abadeh weavers of south central Persia , India and Pakistan make a few rugs in this design .
6 Once sheep is acquired , for instance , the word dog is no longer over-extended to sheep , even though it may still be used for other kinds of mammals ( Clark , 1973a , 1978 ; Barrett , 1978 ) .
7 Although most doctors will be aware of this , it should still be referred to directly in the letter of instruction so that the doctor can indicate if there is some aspect of the report which should be withheld from the client , such as where the client is suffering from a non-related and serious illness or , in a psychiatric case , where disclosure of the report would exacerbate the symptoms .
8 America , in the middle of destroying Iraq 's army , and having given Israel Patriot air-defence missiles , crews and intelligence , is uncertain whether it should still be considered in Israel 's debt .
9 Of course , in a large transport aircraft , all this information will be on the flight data recorder , but it must still be checked on site .
10 Its shape became clear , and I could then guess roughly how much of it must still be buried under the sand .
11 Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills .
12 In schools where there is no full-time librarian , it could still be done by teachers .
13 And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics .
14 Derain 's Baigneuses is in many ways closer in spirit to the Demoiselles , and it was regarded by Vauxcelles at least , as a revolutionary work , but it had the advantage that it could still be fitted into a traditional frame of reference .
15 It could still be modified for use , provided it was backed up with some new , stronger coercion .
16 As seen , Lord Greene M.R. in the Wednesbury case conceived of unreasonableness in its substantive sense , as a long stop and a fairly extreme one at that : if an exercise of discretion successfully negotiated the hurdles of improper purpose and relevancy it could still be invalidated on the altar of substantive unreasonableness if it was so unreasonable that no reasonable body could reach such a decision .
17 Butyl has a substantially longer life expectancy than pvc — it 's used in the construction of reservoirs — but it can still be damaged by piercing .
18 It was published in eighty six eighty seven , although it 's no longer available in shops , it can still be obtained through the library service if you care to request it , which I have .
19 This aircraft does have the advantage of a bench seat in the back which is removable , so it can still be used as a four-seater if you watch the weight and balance .
20 So strong is the activity in these discharges that it can still be measured in the sea right down the western coast of Britain , northwards round the top of Scotland , and even as far away as Scandinavia .
21 Indeed it can still be found in our own time , in some individual cases but also in new forms of patronage .
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