Example sentences of "[vb mod] still [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently ( Demski , 1976 and other authors ) it is inefficient for it to force on to the manager any general risk if this can be avoided , though the manager should still have some reward/penalty dependent upon his or her actions . |
| 2 | Do you reckon we 'll still know each other ? |
| 3 | A picture may be worth a thousand words but you 'll still need some text to explain what the pictures are about ! |
| 4 | Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone . |
| 5 | I realised that life might still hold some pleasure , if not happiness . |
| 6 | This advice , suited to small craft-masters or farmers , might still make some sense in the moderately small counting houses of even quite large bankers and merchants , and remained valid in as much as instruction was an essential aspect of management in newly industrialising countries . |
| 7 | The incident shows that force might still play some part in the creation of marriage alliances in the eleventh century . |
| 8 | A new airport may still threaten many bird species . |
| 9 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 10 | For some individuals , affirmative action may still do more good than harm . |
| 11 | If your income is higher than this amount you may still receive some help as explained below . |
| 12 | Even if you are not a great fan of exercise-to-music and think stepping up and down on a bench is n't exactly going to be a barrel laughs , you may still find this fun . |
| 13 | ‘ They may still have that radio and I can handle one of those things . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the doctrine of fundamental breach may still have some utility when it comes to controlling exclusion clauses in contracts which do not come within the scope of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 15 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 16 | Yeah but we could still go this way . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 18 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
| 19 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 20 | He could still hear that dog barking . |
| 21 | It was absurd to imagine that a modern city could still evoke that kind of magic ! |
| 22 | The tasks we had set the Rottweiler have become lost and very rarely will you find a Rottweiler today herding cattle anywhere in the world , although most could still accomplish this task if required . |
| 23 | And while the proportion of those people who would recommend a young couple with a steady job to buy as soon as possible has fallen from 78 per cent in 1989 , the latest survey shows 70 per cent would still offer this advice . |
| 24 | Yet even the most draconian measures would still have little effect on health-care inflation — because drugs account for just 7 per cent of all spending on patients . |
| 25 | There 's stll Rocky and Tinkler in the wings , Wallace can play wide on either side and Speed can play in the middle , so we would still have enough cover . |
| 26 | ‘ I would go for parts and they would still have this idea that Chrissie was very much in the series . |
| 27 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 28 | Some scientists would still maintain that science is neutral , and it is the politicians who select and implement their inventions in particular ways and who should therefore shoulder the blame for undesirable consequences . |
| 29 | The nomadic tribesmen of the contemporary Middle East would still understand this story well enough . |
| 30 | Because the net will inevitably be in close contact with some of the fruit , birds will still do some damage where they can peck through the mesh . |