Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] still be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 2 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 3 | And when I die , I 'll still be called Stuart Hughes . |
| 4 | yeah it is local so I 'll still be coming to the group , I mean it 's erm , going , I mean erm just bear that in mind I might need sort of some help with coordinating cards and things , and erm , particularly if we do opt into the campaign , er it might be advisable for somebody else to do it , or at least sort of give me assistance . |
| 5 | Because I 'll still be covering for John |
| 6 | After all , you never know , I could still be spotted . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 8 | If you had n't stopped to give me a lift this morning , I 'd still be shuffling along the road to Tangiers . ’ |
| 9 | If he had kept his mouth shut I would still be eating rancid meat and plotting my own way out of Paris . |
| 10 | Or I would still be flying between Siberia and eternity with nothing to listen to but ‘ Pretty in Pink ’ by The Psychedelic Furs . |
| 11 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 12 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |
| 13 | As a result , I shall experience a succession of different " complexes of qualities " but I shall still be looking at the same bunch of flowers . |
| 14 | Well I shall still be sitting down bloated out no doubt , but er , it 's just not doing it , actually doing it . |
| 15 | Ann adds : ‘ Even if we lose the appeal and the girls have to see out the full term in prison , I shall still be campaigning to prove their innocence long after they have been released . |
| 16 | The emperor gave Venice exceptional mercantile privileges , and she began to form the trading posts and colonies — quite in the manner of ancient Athens — which may still be discerned , with Genoese and Turkish towns adjacent , along the Bosphorus . |
| 17 | Charlemagne 's throne , which may still be seen in the basilica at Aachen , gave all the kings of western Europe sooner or later the idea of regarding a throne as an essential symbol of royal greatness . |
| 18 | They are based on assumptions which must still be tested . |
| 19 | We will not go into great detail on the dangers of using statistics here but merely point to some precautions which must still be taken even when using statistics which are generally regarded as reliable . |
| 20 | The measure , which must still be approved by the full cabinet and parliament , will apply to German as well as foreign manufacturers ( the latter represented by importers ) . |
| 21 | A less legitimate gain , but one which might still be made in an unsuccessful war , was to exploit the system of contracting to provide troops . |
| 22 | He said that after 3 ½ years of competition between British Telecom and the Cable and Wireless subsidiary , Mercury Communications , it was time to survey customers ' experience and , if necessary , ‘ identify practices which might still be inhibiting competition ’ . |
| 23 | Owen was going through the accounts with Nikos trying to find pockets of money which might still be emptied . |
| 24 | Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position . |
| 25 | During the 1985 riots and their immediate aftermath , the imagery of ‘ race ’ was used by sections of the press without the sense of ambiguity which could still be found in 1980–1 . |
| 26 | He was led into the development of sensitive instruments for this purpose , and his most lasting achievement was undoubtedly the ‘ gold-leaf electroscope ’ which could still be found 200 years later in school science laboratories as a detector of electrical charge . |
| 27 | These show that the birds make little use of the lower mudflats , which would be permanently flooded when the barrage is built , preferring the higher levels , which would still be exposed . |
| 28 | Will not local authorities , which will still be wrestling with the poll tax in 1992 , be in a state of total chaos in April 1993 ? |
| 29 | he is seeking a large railway society to be custodians of his vast range of pictures , which will still be made available to the general public . |
| 30 | Today the ‘ A ’ team take the field against county champions Essex at Lord 's , the opening fixture in a first-class season which will still be running in 22 weeks ' time . |