Example sentences of "it would still [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 So it it 'd still sound
2 It would still hiss and make noise , but the energy and power were gone ; sometimes it would even shrink and contract within itself .
3 However , I 've played the guitar for over 25 years , I 've worked as a professional guitar repairer for the top companies , and if you were to say , ‘ These frets are 2.1mm high , ’ it would still mean nothing to me !
4 But it would still leave the Tories , both locally and nationally , free to argue that the voters ' choice was between a Lib-Lab pact and a Conservative government .
5 A new contributory scheme of this kind would be expensive because it must be generous enough to lift people off means-tested supplementary benefit ; and it would still leave them entangled in a cohabitation rule of some sort .
6 This would ensure directionality , but it would still leave the problem of getting the message from one end of the signalling cell to the other over what would now be a relatively long distance .
7 Even if displaced through three time zones eastwards , it would still infer it was over the Atlantic , and home in the wrong direction .
8 If you put the bottom on wheel , put some wheels on the bottom of the ladder so it could n't fall because of the bottom , then it would still stay there because on the floor would be the bit of grip from the top .
9 A layer of ferns or mosses for a bed , a bundle of sweet herbs for a pillow , and as much as it would still contain after the body had been gently laid in it of any aromatic or flowering plant for a coverlet ’ .
10 Whether it would still continue to be free standing and well removed in terms of a second er second increment .
11 But it would still make a bomb that could flatten much of a city and drench the place with fall-out .
12 It would still do you no harm to attend a re-entry programme in the meantime , as it will give you a taste of current nursing practice , and help you in deciding exactly what you would like to do in the future .
13 As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated .
14 Well it would still stand out would n't it cos it 's a different colour ?
15 With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do .
16 It would still appear , therefore , that despite some initiatives jobs for older people remain a low priority .
17 Even though these cases may be comparatively rare , it would still appear that such high costs present a problem needing resolution if people are to have access to justice as and when needed .
18 America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened .
19 AD 620 there were rare English imitations of Frankish coin , but despite any possible tendency for this coin to become currency , it would still have found its greatest use for high-value transactions and storage .
20 You know , even if we had lost the Cup , it would still have been a very good year for French players .
21 It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic .
22 Twenty-four hours later it would still have required access to a crystal ball to predict the result after some of the most enthralling encounters seen on a golf course since man first put club to ball .
23 However , the marked path is still the highest scoring of the paths considered , and it can be shown that , if all the paths had been considered , it would still have a high probability of being the highest scoring .
24 Canadian Pound told a breakfast press conference for journalists : ‘ The best of riders can not win without a good horse — you could put a dog on a horse and it would still win . ’
25 The scheme was modest , so modest in fact that a number of experts were quick to point out that , even when the scheme was fully mature , it would still provide inadequate pensions to guarantee most beneficiaries , without any pension other than the state retirement pension , an income above the official poverty line .
26 And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain .
27 But , even after this year 's advances , it would still require the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 to achieve it : the odds remain stacked heavily against it happening .
28 Subsequently , however , the CNGSB announced on Oct. 22 that it intended to launch " a new and fierce terrorist campaign in the country " , but nevertheless qualified this by repeating that it would still support moves by " political parties , the working class , trade unions and everyone else " to find a political solution .
29 Not this moment , and perhaps not ever again , despite the time it would still take to confront that knowledge .
30 If , however , you feel unable to do this , it would still help us if the questionnaire could be filled in for the largest course , and some indication be given of provision in other courses .
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