Example sentences of "[noun] can still [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those words can still be read in the Bodleian Library , a priceless association with one of Scotland 's greatest women . |
| 2 | While everyone agrees that far more could , and should , have been done to contain the AIDS epidemic , the key issue now is that positive steps can still be taken . |
| 3 | The sovereign government should accept that even if an overall solution is impossible , at this time , some practical steps can still be taken to tackle the democratic deficit . |
| 4 | Indeed , the ruined fence can still be seen running from above the top waterfall in the Gill to high up onto the side of Birk Fell . |
| 5 | The valve can still be operated by gripping the stub in a pair of pliers , but it will defeat small children . |
| 6 | In its time the castle had connections with the sea — the old tidal dock can still be seen , though the short channel which gave seaborne access has long since disappeared . |
| 7 | Further to John Wildig 's interesting article in Journal No. 8 ‘ Railway Happenings in Mid-Wales ’ I would like to say that further semaphore signals can still be seen at Machynlleth , where they control movements in and out of the DMU stabling and Permanent Way depot along with the run-round loops , and also at Llanbrynmair where they control low flying jets and high flying gricers ! |
| 8 | Hence , as porosity distribution and facies appear to be related , it follows that prediction of potential reservoirs can be made from facies maps , and even if facies interpretations are not available , reservoir prediction can still be done by identifying the zone of maximum thickness on an isopach map and extrapolating from it the distribution of facies and porosity . |
| 9 | The village was an important source of gunpowder in the nineteenth century , and remains of the industry can still be seen . |
| 10 | Even if that analysis is too simple , the threads that lead from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries can still be followed . |
| 11 | The remains of a distillery can still be seen in The Kennels at Lossit . |
| 12 | Markstones can still be seen at road junctions and crossroads . |
| 13 | Here , faint traces can still be found of man-made images which show that , in one respect at least , our club-wielding predecessors were just like us : they had the urge to record the important happenings in their lives in the form of two-dimensional pictures . |
| 14 | Plockton started existence as a fishing port , and the old harbour can still be seen , but it is that no longer , pleasure sailing being the new order of the day ; and visitors are catered for without fuss or ostentation . |
| 15 | Although Arazi is odds-on to win the Kentucky Derby with British bookmakers , reports from Las Vegas indicate the colt can still be backed there at 7–5 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The new symbols NT , USE need not necessarily be transferred to library catalogues where traditional entries can still be made . |
| 18 | The Dowsing Fault-Zone can still be distinguished as a separate structural zone which has seen Tertiary re-activation , as shown in Profile 1 . |
| 19 | Data can still be transferred between the current module and the other segments by using an internal ‘ Send ’ command . |
| 20 | Such a scene can still be witnessed while standing on the quaint little hump-backed bridge opposite the mill . |
| 21 | As with the Nayar example the following ethnography has an eighteenth- rather than a twentieth-century flavour but weddings of a similar general type can still be observed . |
| 22 | I feel this is possibly not a good thing at this present time , when every spectrum of Rottweiler size , shape and type can still be found in the show ring : further expansions of the gene pool can only have a destructive effect . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | It was built in 1965 , using the underframe of Pantograph car 170 , whose distinctive running noises can still be heard beneath the superstructure . |
| 25 | All but a hundred of these mill sites can still be accounted for . |
| 26 | here old fashioned soft touch detective work can still be observed in the bars and campsites ; private eyeballing of which a Bogart or a Mitchum would have been proud — last call for a way of life about to disappear for ever . |
| 27 | Although examples of their work can still be found today , a newer , rather more modern artist has also discovered the humble screen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But Brentford boss Phil Holder believes the Geordie dream can still be shattered — and soon . |
| 30 | But it is unlikely that rises in Ca 2+ of this duration are necessary for the induction of LTP in view of the demonstration that LTP can still be induced even if the duration of the post-tetanic rise in Ca 2+ is restricted to less than 3s , using a photo-activatable caged Ca 2+ chelator . |