Example sentences of "would still be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And then you 'd come back later and have a a sort of tea , but it would still be bread and jam , you know what I mean .
2 He added : ‘ Even if it rained between now and October more heavily than it has ever done in recorded time there would still be rivers , such as the Ver in Hertfordshire , that would not get enough water to enable them to flow properly .
3 She put it on the kitchen table now but suspected it would still be lumps of ice when they came to eat it .
4 ‘ It would have meant , Inspector , ’ explained Angelina , ‘ that Sir Thomas would still be chairman when the next Year of the Lion began .
5 They would however presumably agree that since the great majority of manufacturing firms are small businesses and employ only a small number of people , there would still be scope in manufacture for a considerable extension of the industrial co-operative sector .
6 He would still be state president , but he would lose his real power base .
7 Even with fees added on , the final bill would still be £500,000 less than anticipated .
8 The increase in national insurance gave the Government ‘ more freedom for movement next year ’ , when it was unlikely Mr Lamont would still be Chancellor .
9 That would be one less thing for him to worry about with regards to his mother , for she would still be mistress of the house , at least until the war was over , which might go on for a year , perhaps two .
10 If this were all that Goody claimed he was saying there would still be problems of definition but it might provide some insight into the specific nature of classical Greece and the specific forms of literacy developed there .
11 In less than six hours ' time — and there it would still be night — he would be attempting to scale the steel wall , trying not to get crushed against it .
12 It would still be touch and go for the agency .
13 Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old .
14 There would still be traces , Quincx , I 'm convinced of that .
15 Bogus officials , who gain entry fraudulently , would still be trespassers .
16 I venture to guess he would still be director .
17 They say that if you take one in five children , that 's twenty per cent of children , that probably eighteen per cent of children with special needs can be dealt with in ordinary schools and that there would still be need for special facilities for the remaining two per cent .
18 There would still be possibilities .
19 For example , in No. 2 , capital would still be zero even if the surplus cash was not used to repay the loan : when the loan is repaid the two balance sheet items of ‘ long-term creditor ’ and ‘ cash ’ are written out .
20 Meanwhile there would still be room for outsiders to show initiative in asking interesting questions of companies , and coming to their own conclusions .
21 Mr John Godfrey of Eden Bus Services said there would still be traffic queues , but motorists would find they would move quicker than at present .
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