Example sentences of "[modal v] still be say " in BNC.
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1 | While appreciating the extraordinary difficulties facing Mr Lamont , it must still be said that he could have handled them better than this . |
2 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
3 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
4 | He might still be saying — lying through his teeth — that her breasts were as firm as ever . |
5 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
6 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
7 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
8 | It can still be said , he suggests , ‘ that there are some things capable of being known , though they are still not ones that can be known with an Aristotelian knowledge , but only experientially , or according to appearances ’ . |
9 | The mode of economic production prevalent in a society may be very different from the mode of ideological production , but they can still be said to share certain ingredients . |