Example sentences of "still [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still nurses the hope that devolution and the decentralisation of power to the regions will stave off the need for changing the voting system . |
| 2 | The new four-cylinder engine — the one that still powers the Excel and the Esprit — was dreadfully unreliable at first , but went quite well by the time the Elite was launched . |
| 3 | ‘ He still drives the Darlington buses to Newton Aycliffe , ’ says Mr Fishwick Jnr . |
| 4 | The evidence still litters the Revolution Place in the capital Bucharest . |
| 5 | It does , on any count , seem extraordinary that thirty years after de Pomiane 's heyday , the dispiriting progress from soup to fish , from fish to meat and on , remorselessly on , to salad , cheese , a piece of pastry , a crème caramel or an ice cream , still constitutes the standard menu throughout the entire French-influenced world of hotels and catering establishments . |
| 6 | Alice Kohn-Speyer ( Mrs Auerbach ) still plays the violin ( 2nd fiddle ) in a senior group and coaches string quartets . |
| 7 | The extraction process for cocoa powder was invented by a Dutchman , van Houten , in the late 1820s , and his family firm still produces the best cocoa powder ( see p79 ) , which has a very rich and rounded flavour . |
| 8 | There are larger fish , particularly in Loch Rannoch , and since the end of the nineteenth century there are records of huge trout being caught , fish of up to 22lb ; most seasons Rannoch still produces the odd monster . |
| 9 | The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague . |
| 10 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 11 | Ireland still produces the famous Donegal carpets . |
| 12 | Mr Gorbachev still thinks the old system can be reformed . |
| 13 | But she still thinks the exercise was worthwhile and says Bill Clinton will be wise to stay in touch with the ‘ small fries ’ . |
| 14 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 15 | It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development . |
| 16 | The major theoretical problems which arise from explanations of language development as a process of learning verbal behaviours were first presented by Chomsky ( 1959 ) and , in many respects , this still represents the best critique of Skinner 's position . |
| 17 | Likewise , the symbolism of the Orphic story could be replaced by an iconography which although different , still represents the world in terms of pacification and support . |
| 18 | And although the technology is different , it still involves the use of mercury . |
| 19 | ‘ Natural philosophy ’ does not consist of ‘ knowledge ’ , which arises from perception of connections between ideas , but of ‘ opinion ’ ; and Locke still associates the word ‘ science ’ with scientia and ‘ knowledge ’ proper . |
| 20 | Luca Ciferri remembers the car that presaged the immortal Ferrari Dino and which still influences the design of today 's sports cars |
| 21 | The legacy of the different cultures which evolved within these four areas still influences the attitudes and ways of life of Yugoslav people today . |
| 22 | It is likely that Li Peng , the prime minister , still tastes the personal gall of 1m people in Hong Kong taking to the streets after Tiananmen to call for his ejection from office . |
| 23 | Ten years after the death of Jean de Florette his 18-year-old daughter Manon still haunts the hills overlooking the farm stolen from her father the canny Soubeyran ( Montand ) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin ( Auteuil ) . |
| 24 | Could he have been a signalman who met an unfortunate death and still haunts the place of his end ? |
| 25 | It is said that his ghost still haunts the crypts below the tower and occasionally assists searching scholars . |
| 26 | The legacy of establishing need in order to trigger the duty to make payments still haunts the administration of means-tested benefits and has flavoured supplementary benefits appeal tribunals with Victorian notions of identifying those who are ‘ the deserving poor ’ . |
| 27 | That division in sensibility , which still haunts the English middle classes , between the unsatisfactory domestic environments of cities , and the idyll of a cottage in the country , will be the subject of a later chapter . |
| 28 | He still insists the deal would have worked . |
| 29 | Today the church authorities issued a public apology but the Reverend Eric Craig still insists the crosses break Church rules and he wo n't allow them in his graveyard . |
| 30 | Except that this gripping race still offers the opportunity to dislodge its leader . |