Example sentences of "[vb mod] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I never did anything but sit in this room and powder my face and tell you what a clever fool you are , i should still be heavens high above the millions of common women who do their domestic duty , and sacrifice themselves , and run Trade departments and all the rest of the vulgarities . |
| 2 | Bear in mind that even though the wire will not present an electrical hazard , it should still be buried : trailing cables are dangerous by day and even more so in the dark . |
| 3 | That the alternative religious explanation should still not know what value to put on ‘ music of the flute ’ — this will be experienced by some as a cruel disappointment , by others as a welcome acknowledgement that dogmatic certainty on the large scale can comprehend uncertainties on the small . |
| 4 | Economic growth is slowing , but should still be a respectable 5 per cent this year . |
| 5 | ‘ If they 're northern-born and bred and happen to live elsewhere , they should still have the opportunity to play for the North . |
| 6 | Flow on this stretch is usually sluggish but today , with the extra water , the flow is much quicker but I should still be able to use a waggler . |
| 7 | Wonderful as many of them are , it should still be more widely stressed by doctors that the health of human beings is so often determined by their behaviour , their food and the nature of their environment . |
| 8 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 9 | Even if it is not read out in the endless rounds of buying and selling shares , then the message , passive though it might be , should still find its way into the living rooms of a high proportion of homes in the Sheffield region . |
| 10 | ( However we should still heed Mr Castro 's warning that nothing now happening in Europe is going to help the desperate problems of the Third World . |
| 11 | America , in the middle of destroying Iraq 's army , and having given Israel Patriot air-defence missiles , crews and intelligence , is uncertain whether it should still be considered in Israel 's debt . |
| 12 | The billions of dollars in aid promised to the Soviet economy should still be on offer : but only to a leader prepared to take the army out of politics and keep the promise of reform . |
| 13 | If that is the underlying proposition , it is important to dissociate it from the unacceptable idea that a person 's acts after loss of self-control should still be measured on an objective scale . |
| 14 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 15 | You should still be able to eat the foods you enjoy . |
| 16 | Even if you are in a rush there should still be time for a glass of skimmed milk and a piece of fruit or fruit juice . |
| 17 | ‘ It is only my view , of course , but you should still hear it . ’ |
| 18 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 19 | A royal charter granted in 1257 to Roger de Merlay for his lifetime , that his own woodwards should have exclusive custody of the vert in his woods , provided however that the king 's foresters should still have custody of the venison there , and that de Morlay 's woodwards should be answerable to the Justice of the Forest , or at the Forest Eyre for any waste of those woods . |
| 20 | The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world . |
| 21 | ‘ The information should still be useful in 500 or 1,000 years , ’ Penston said . |
| 22 | He said that even if voters did not want to help any candidate , they should still go to the polling station to register their grievances . |
| 23 | She should still have been able to get a seat , but she should not have a carriage practically to herself . |
| 24 | Data should still be available from the new privatised water companies , but whose responsibility will monitoring be ? |
| 25 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 26 | These matters of a more technical constitutional nature are perhaps not immediately obvious to the man in the street , nor even to politicians ; yet it is incredible that there should still be people advocating federalism for the EC given the abysmal record of other multinational federations . |
| 27 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 28 | In the event of the sand liquefying below the basement , the soil should still be able to support the building . |
| 29 | It might seem odd during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today , over 100 years on |
| 30 | It may seem odd that during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today over 100 years on . |