Example sentences of "[modal v] still [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 2 | He said that even if voters did not want to help any candidate , they should still go to the polling station to register their grievances . |
| 3 | I draw the attention of the House and of Ministers to the fact that in that context it seems to make no sense whatsoever that one regulatory authority responsible for safety — the maritime inspectorate — should still remain within the Department of Transport . |
| 4 | But they must still rely on the banks satisfying that demand by lending more — and the banks may not oblige . |
| 5 | You will lose your own payments , but he must still pay towards the children . |
| 6 | The results of these measures will for some time be inconclusive , if only because parties to an experiment must still depend on the larger part of the economy which continues to operate according to traditional principles . |
| 7 | The interesting , though not necessarily plausible , feature of this result is that firms know that when the price falls below the critical level this is due to a random shock , because they know it pays no one to cheat , but nevertheless they must still go into the punishment phase to enforce the collusive agreement . |
| 8 | For example , the rule which automatically renders transactions carried out by company directors in breach of the prohibition on self-dealing voidable can be modified , but it has been held that the director must still act in the best interests of the company . |
| 9 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
| 10 | You 'll still go to the pictures … ’ |
| 11 | Freda said : ‘ You 'll still go to the lawyer 's this afternoon ? ’ |
| 12 | When he leaves prison he 'll still be banned from tending the livestock … but he 'll still live at the farm . |
| 13 | Secretly , I might still yearn for a bumper-sized twelve-inch member . |
| 14 | So Ronny might still go for a trial at Leeds — he is no Neil Ruddock type ; more of playing defender . |
| 15 | the midday sun was Re , or might still appear in the form of Re-Harakhty . |
| 16 | For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way . |
| 17 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 18 | To do this , accepting that many visitors from across the world will probably attend the next World Cup , tempted also by the extraordinarily favourable rates of exchange and despite the problems which may still exist in the country , SARFU has to ensure that the majority of South Africans will have a chance to attend the games if rugby is to lose its elitist ‘ white ’ connotations . |
| 19 | Economics textbooks may still hold to the notion of ‘ work ’ as paid employment and deny the importance of unpaid women 's work ( in agriculture or the home ) in their theories and explanations and their insistence that most countries have moved to a ‘ monetary economy ’ . |
| 20 | Once the Mob has moved it may still move in the movement phase , shoot and fight just as normal . |
| 21 | White 's quiet opening may still lead to a slight edge for him if Black permits e4 . |
| 22 | For instance , if the seller regularly acknowledges orders on a form incorporating its terms of business , those terms may still apply to a case of a contract made by telephone where no acknowledgment is sent ( J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 461 ; SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) . |
| 23 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 24 | Apart from portraits , arguably the two greatest pictures that Queen Victoria purchased were Frith 's ‘ Ramsgate Sands ’ , an endearing masterpiece which for all I know may still hang in the waiting room at Buckingham Palace for the amusement of visitors , and Leighton 's ‘ Cimabue 's Madonna carried in procession ’ , acquired from the Royal Academy in 1855 and now on permanent loan to the National Gallery . |
| 25 | If the particular addressee of the remark happens to be unusually unimaginative or drunk , the conduct may still fall within the terms of the section . |
| 26 | Rather than destroy heathen temples , Pope Gregory the Great in a letter to St Augustine of Canterbury in AD 601 advised that they should be converted into churches so the people could still go to the usual site of their worship , to worship the one God instead of many . |
| 27 | Neutral currents with the appropriate properties could still exist in the theory of beta decay that Enrico fermi had proposed in 1933 , without the mediation of W or Z particles ( figure I ) . |
| 28 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 29 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |
| 30 | I was weak with hunger but I had a knife and I could still move round the city . |