Example sentences of "we [modal v] still [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steer away from bloody television and we might still have a fighting chance . |
| 2 | Brady explained : ‘ Jack Charlton wrote to me , saying he was sorry about the way it had ended and expressing the hope that we could still have a decent relationship . |
| 3 | ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion . |
| 4 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 5 | Chairman Sir Anthony Tennant rightly predicted that many of us would be too hard up to stand a round of drinks in the pub anymore — but that we 'd still fancy a cheap tipple at home . |
| 6 | Even if things did n't go to plan , we 'd still have a useful resort property … |
| 7 | We would still welcome a thorough reappraisal of the statutory objectives , powers and duties of the Council in order to ensure they are relevant to the challenges which lie ahead . |
| 8 | Would you say that if this pattern were to be repeated all through the night we would run out of dry-roasted nuts just before the important watershed of midnight , whereas we would still have a surplus of the ordinary variety ? |
| 9 | However , in half-anticipation , I 'd calculated that after the one hour twenty flight from Porto we would still have a two hours forty endurance at 75 per cent cruise for the return flight to Porto in order to clear Customs back into Spain . |
| 10 | But we would still have a form tutor input i.e. a summation |
| 11 | ‘ I hope we will still have a very competitive car next year . |
| 12 | However , whether there is an upturn or not , we will still have a tough year and there is no room for complacency . |
| 13 | ( Even when G is not a tree , we can still choose a root for it . ) |
| 14 | Yet we can still distinguish a ‘ European ’ history with themes of its own in these years . |
| 15 | In San Gimignano we can still see a few churches and the towers . |
| 16 | ‘ We may be out of the running but we can still have a big say in who goes through to the United States , ’ said Hughes . |
| 17 | Bill Ward , assistant director of the department of environment at county hall , said : ‘ We know very well about local objections and will look at the scheme again to see if there is any way we can still have a scheme whilst taking account of local feeling . ’ |
| 18 | The response from Medau teachers has been good but we can still take a few more . |
| 19 | We can still get a profound sense of all this today from that astonishing visual image of Scottish self-awareness , the heraldic ceiling of St Machar 's cathedral in Aberdeen , constructed by bishop Gavin Dunbar between 1519 and 1522 and , as David McRoberts said in his account of it , ‘ quite unique in Europe ’ . |