Example sentences of "can still " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wish to give a capital sum to ACET ( e.g. from an inheritance your have received ) or an amount of money that exceeds your taxable for the tax year of the gift , ACET can still get tax relief on your gift if you enter into a Deposited Covenant arrangement . |
| 2 | If there is an element of design on Pechorin 's part in the duel he fights , an element which incorporates a knowledge of the loaded dice to be employed by his opponent in the form of an unloaded pistol , the outcome can still be ascribed to chance , in a sense that must be meant to characterise the hero 's fine indifference . |
| 3 | In a village near Amiens , I found a shop where you can still get tea , and enough cakes to make a schoolboy sick for a week . |
| 4 | The design of interiors … are as valid today as they were in earlier times — the vaults , snugs , parlours , each with their own character , can still provide a pleasant , varied atmosphere ’ . |
| 5 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 6 | I can still see myself sitting there , relaxed and comforted by the warm drink , and then there was that moment when I decided I would resign . |
| 7 | I can still remember the click of the latch as she shut the door behind her . |
| 8 | I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation . |
| 9 | Though such drastic and dangerous procedures as nicotine fumigation may be a thing of the past , today 's organic gardener can still learn much from Harry Dodson 's traditional methods of pest control . |
| 10 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |
| 11 | Today , the detectives on the shoplifting squads , the burglary teams , and the crime squads are casual , but are still clean and orderly ( ‘ prigs ’ assert they can still spot ‘ a horney ’ because of his tidy style and his shoes ) . |
| 12 | Where the points score is equal , a decision can still be given if the panel thinks that one contestant used better techniques , used a greater variety of effective techniques , or made more of the running . |
| 13 | While you can still hit the opponent with any one of your body weapons he , in effect , has turned away from you and can launch no direct attack without first twisting to face you . |
| 14 | Even if the slide is not feasible , you can still throw your centre of gravity forward , so that weight increases on the leading leg . |
| 15 | You will have now moved out of line , yet you can still punch strongly into the opponent who , in consequence , is forced to turn towards you . |
| 16 | It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . |
| 17 | ‘ We can still be friends . |
| 18 | However they can still read a very high percentage of pre-morbidly familiar words accurately , regardless of their spelling . |
| 19 | Anyone using steel backs to their shoes can still do this . |
| 20 | But they can still be loan-tied , which means the nationals will still effectively control these outlets . |
| 21 | The dinosaurs can have Scafell until they die out , then if anyone can still be bothered to walk ( ! ) up there , I 'm sure a line or two of bolts would n't go amiss . |
| 22 | Once the definition has changed ( and that was before publication of the guide ) then the criticism of the style of ascent could have been dropped , but of course it was not , and can still be seen amidst ascents where the rock is scarcely touched . |
| 23 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The question can still be raised whether Pound had any access to Virgil except through translation . |
| 26 | Occasional gunshots can still be heard , though no one seems to know who fires the guns and if anyone is hit . |
| 27 | Nicholas Soames , the aristocratically toned and booming Tory MP for Crawley , can still make him stumble at the despatch box by muttering ‘ Another G and T , Giovanni ’ . |
| 28 | The position is changing rapidly , but they can still be powerful , behind-the-scene figures . |
| 29 | Sport can still pull an armchair crowd . |
| 30 | Inside , one can still see the Map Room , where Churchill used to study the progress of the war , the Cabinet Room where many of the Second World War 's most important decisions were made , and Churchill 's personal accommodation from which he made several of his wartime broadcasts . |