Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] a [adj] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their generating capacity , however , still lies to a significant extent in coal-fired generation . |
| 2 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 3 | Stepping has always been a feature of this particular village and it is still practised to a certain extent today . |
| 4 | For the evidence set out above suggests that the heads of the central figures , which still relate to a certain extent to the work of 1906 and which were almost certainly the first to be painted , were not executed until the Iberian stone heads came into Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 5 | Listening to children reading has dominated the early stages of reading instruction for several decades , and still does to a great extent . |
| 6 | Labour 's greatest ever achievement , without fear of any contradiction , the greatest achievement of the Labour movement was the introduction of the N H S which still remains to a large extent , the envy of the world . |