Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] still [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is not whether some places , or even some regions and countries should be , or could still be , protected from disruption by change , but whether this is what modern political xenophobia is actually trying to do . |
| 2 | Perhaps the newt is just providing the frog surface layer with positional signals that may still be the same in both animals : what has changed in evolution is how the signals are interpreted . |
| 3 | However , your pension may be worth a lot of money and , especially as you approach retirement , it is important that you should know the main essentials , including any options that may still be available to you . |
| 4 | The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules . |
| 5 | For safety 's sake and your horse 's health and comfort , there are some jobs that should still be done regularly . |
| 6 | " Darling , if you put your ear close to mine , you 'll hear last night 's electric , whining , beating group that should still be issuing from the brain tissue . " |
| 7 | AS rivers burst their banks , homes were flooded and hundreds of livestock were swept to their death , there was one key question that could still be sensibly asked yesterday . |
| 8 | Any piece of rotten meat that could still be found in the enclave was slipped over an improvised fish hook , attached to a rope and hurled over the parapet in the vain hope of catching a jackal or a pariah dog that might swallow it . |
| 9 | On the day before the auction , Bob Spence inspected the Swordfish and his friend Claude Johnson helped to point out HS554 as the best one of the bunch — it was the only one of the seven that had an engine that could still be turned over . |
| 10 | This is a process which is going on all the time in the world of bacteria , and drug firms are managing to keep ahead , just , by producing newer ( and inevitably , more expensive ) antibiotics that will still be effective . |
| 11 | An easily upgradeable desktop computer that will still be on technology 's front like in three years time . |
| 12 | The story is an intricate one , as Herbert Schneidau acknowledges ; and Pound 's holding out against Ford for the Dantesque principle of a ‘ curial ’ diction ( see his introduction to the poems of Lionel Johnson ) represents to my mind an objection that can still be raised to Ford 's principles of diction , salutary as Ford 's polemics undoubtedly were for Pound at this time . |
| 13 | And there is almost no limit to the ways you can reorganize the space in some of those old Victorian and Edwardian wardrobes that can still be found . |
| 14 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 15 | That next-door neighbour dabbler you are so concerned about is much more likely to be involved in the ‘ soft-occult ’ , and may still be open to a little reasoning . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office said a list of 45 Britons who had visited the ranch recently and may still be there had been compiled with the help of U.S. immigration authorities and worried relatives . |
| 17 | Where one particular elite ( or elite coalition ) has a stranglehold on political power , it is common to find increased governmental inertia , conservative leadership , networks of nepotism and patronage , and generally rising levels of corruption , as some observers suggested was true ofthe French Fifth Republic between 1958 and 1981 , and may still be true of contemporary Italy . |
| 18 | They were popular with some older Caucasian ( mainly Karabagh ) groups , and may still be encountered on a number of village and workshop items . |
| 19 | Naturalistic versions were found on older Caucasian items , and may still be encountered on some contemporary Persian workshop items . |
| 20 | After the ship became flooded some stores and equipment deep in the holds were probably not recovered and may still be buried in the sand around the wreck . |
| 21 | He was and may still be the youngest man ever to have held the rank of brigadier general in the British army . |
| 22 | His mother was and must still be such a one . |
| 23 | CECIL therefore provides an objective way of determining the pitched of words and phrases , which could clearly be a great help , both for analysis and for language learning , but the information it provides is only raw data and must still be analysed . |
| 24 | The Product must have been created before it can be used by this option , and must still be unregistered . |
| 25 | The Product must have been updated before it can be used by this option , and must still be unregistered . |
| 26 | Regardless of who 's caring for the child , both parents are still responsible and should still be involved in any decision making . |
| 27 | Kandy was the ancient capital of Sri Lanka and might still be called the capital of the high country of the island . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 29 | Iraqi chemical-weapons factories had suffered ‘ considerable damage ’ , but much of Mr Hussein 's existing chemical stockpile was dispersed and could still be used in bombs , short-range rockets and artillery shells . |
| 30 | And if you hang it up then it will swing about and could still be damaged . |