Example sentences of "it [modal v] still [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may still bear the scars of our occupancy , of out botched attempts at DIY , but it vacates itself of our memory as soon as the new people move their stuff in . |
| 2 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 3 | It was wonderful to be able to listen to her favourite song with impunity , extraordinary that it should still have the power to move her , but not to tears . |
| 4 | A royal ‘ mistake ’ is not final ; but it could still harm the Monarch 's own reputation . |
| 5 | Three weeks later the high command again said hands off , with a reminder that it could still mount a coup . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it would still make a bomb that could flatten much of a city and drench the place with fall-out . |
| 9 | The next time you start your machine it will still show the lag or lead that it did before you tried to correct it . |
| 10 | We know that it still has a poll tax element , that it will still need a register , and that it still does not relate to the ability to pay . |
| 11 | Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ . |
| 12 | They concur with the group in seeing it as a way of cutting down on bootleg tapes , though it will still reduce the impact of a future live album . |
| 13 | Should the ball be unaffected by the crosswind , the next stroke is playable to the green , and should the ball be caught by an extra gust , it will still find the right of the fairway or the light rough . |
| 14 | But whether you choose horses or oxen , it will still take a day to plough an acre . |
| 15 | But this teams needs more continuity than up to now and it can still do a lot better . |
| 16 | In the second approach , described as interventive , one injects an antibiotic inhibitor of RNA or protein synthesis , trains the animal and asks if it can still remember the task . |
| 17 | It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race . |
| 18 | It bears so much fruit that it can still supply the appetites of 50 children and a large population of garden birds . |
| 19 | Partly arising from this , and partly because of the lack of difference found between many predator species , the crude measure of skeletal element proportions is not diagnostic , although it can still provide an approximation of the overall structure of the bone assemblage . |