Example sentences of "[modal v] still be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW WBC champion Lennox Lewis may still be considered essentially Canadian in some boxing circles . |
| 2 | The effect unsettled him , and he found the fact that he could still be unsettled somehow curious . |
| 3 | In the 1850s a factory of 300 in Britain could still be considered very large , and as late as 1871 the average British cotton factory employed 180 people , the average works manufacturing machinery a mere eighty-five . |
| 4 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 5 | Well I shall still be sitting down bloated out no doubt , but er , it 's just not doing it , actually doing it . |
| 6 | Without her , Bernard would still be running off smudgy manifestos from a basement squat in Islington . |
| 7 | MORE than half Britain 's councils will still be chasing up old poll debts five years after the tax was abolished . |
| 8 | MORE than half Britain 's councils will still be chasing up old poll debts five years after the tax was abolished . |
| 9 | The 1989 Schools ' Regulations allow governing bodies to delegate some of their responsibilities to sub-committees or to individuals , though the governing body can still be held legally responsible for any actions taken under these delegated powers . |