Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] still [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Brougham held that a debtor should also still be imprisoned if he refused to pay what he owed when he could do so by executing a deed , or if he was culpably extravagant or reckless in contracting debts which he had no reasonable expectation of being able to pay . |
| 2 | Mrs Worthington 's daughter might well still be warned off the stage ; what about EFL ? |
| 3 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 4 | The client could therefore still be seen as the organisation rather than the individual , with or without family and friends . |
| 5 | But the decisions made fascinating reading and would presumably still be dragged into any legal proceedings today , even if they were not regarded as binding . |
| 6 | Peter Carter-Ruck , a leading libel lawyer , said : ‘ All you can say is that it would probably still be held to be defamatory to call someone homosexual today when they 're not . |
| 7 | She had loved Vitor from their moment of meeting , she was in love with him now and — Ashley thumped at her pillow — she would doubtless still be besotted by the man in another thirty years . |
| 8 | Although they may occasionally still be allowed to be creatures of intuition and athleticism and skill , the logos say they are always a digit in the equation , a blip in the electronic spreadsheet of some global , transnational corporation . |
| 9 | This , though it is everywhere as various and as changeable as the biographical time which Bakhtin finds in classical Greek literature , can nevertheless still be identified as a distinctive and possibly definitive generic shift . |
| 10 | here an RDG is received , capital allowances can generally still be claimed on the full cost of the asset in question . |
| 11 | This type of S. Andrew 's cross structure can also still be seen in the stave church in the Norsk Folkemuseum at Bydøy Park across the ferry from Oslo . |
| 12 | Coal hole covers were made in different patterns and embossed with the name of the foundry ; outside older houses , the bootscrapers can often still be seen . |
| 13 | The rich coastal plain continued to provide the base for great estates , ruled by their thegns , some of whom had their possessions ratified by charters like the one just quoted , whose boundaries can often still be traced . |
| 14 | Even though more than three hundred years have gone by since the last Roundhead besieged the last Royalist ( and vice versa ) , evidence of their actions can sometimes still be seen on the ground . |
| 15 | Frequently , the boundaries of the areas of land are described and these refer to topographical features which can sometimes still be found in the landscape . |
| 16 | Such Soviet and DRA claims that Afghanistan can meaningfully still be described as non-aligned have been ridiculed by Western statesmen . |