Example sentences of "[modal v] still [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was in 1916 — it should still make a jolly good election address . ’ |
| 2 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 3 | Although his career may be on the wane , he should still prove a useful asset to Ballymena , who just pipped top Junior side Coleraine for the veteran 's services . |
| 4 | You should still play a full part in |
| 5 | After tackling up and laying your baitboxes , landing net etc , around you , and sinking your keepnet in deep-enough water , you should still have a reasonable amount of daylight left to assess your surroundings . |
| 6 | I was n't suggesting you betray any human warmth in your soul by sharing a bed — simply pointing out that yours is unslept in , whereas mine at least should still have a remnant of heat in it . ’ |
| 7 | He 's still only 32–33 so should still have a season or two left in him . |
| 8 | But his next book should still fill a substantial gap : a biography of C.T.B. Turner , one of the first great Australian bowlers . |
| 9 | But the two must still pass a late fitness test and Griffiths admitted : ‘ Our injury problems have hit us hard , but the team spirit is tremendous . |
| 10 | But every song must still tell a story , with a chorus to define the moral , and most remain drippingly sentimental . |
| 11 | If continued taking of the medicine does not produce remedy symptoms then the patient must still have a disease/energy disturbance that matches the disease producing capacity of the remedy . |
| 12 | An important principle of gene — culture coevolutionary theory is that a tabula rasa mind , open to all choices equally and hence totally dependent on the accidents of history , must still have a biological foundation — and a very finely adjusted one at that . |
| 13 | With the violence showing no signs of ending , thousands of soldiers must still maintain a military presence . |
| 14 | This must still yield a finite minimum , for otherwise we would have a solution satisfying ( 8.1 ) and for all and with cost decreasing ( z increasing ) in . |
| 15 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 16 | ‘ I bet he 'll still get a spot for the summer if he gets things sorted out . ’ |
| 17 | At least this way you 'll still have a home to move into . ’ |
| 18 | Get a second hand car for a couple of grand and er I 'll still have a little bit . |
| 19 | With Netters you can get away with about twenty , but you 'll still need a Boss , standard , drummer/horn blower , and a Big Boss if possible . |
| 20 | Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 . |
| 21 | To , well to run them now , they 'll still take a week to come back , even if they do run them today , |
| 22 | They might still face a court case . |
| 23 | On the left , Dunbar held his hand and re-deployed his archers to pick off any strays who might still offer a safe target . |
| 24 | Even after paying £6,000 over 10 years , you might still make a loss — though Equitable paid £12,877 , and several other companies paid more than £9,000 . |
| 25 | In my own case , the model of transition through liminality might still produce a recognizable replication of the move through a rite de passage : |
| 26 | It does n't get at what you want either but it 's one of the system that we 've got So if you write something th that you for a piece of , an essay that you got say a two one for and then you write an appalling piece , you might still get a two one for it under exam conditions |
| 27 | There was , too , an underlying legal change : even though arbitration might still play a crucial part in their actual proceedings , courts gradually inclined to perceive justice as lying in precedent , or principle . |
| 28 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |
| 29 | for each unoccupied row , r , say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might still put a piece . |
| 30 | ‘ If you miss the heart , you might still put a hole through something vital . |