Example sentences of "but it still [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 2 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 3 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 4 | Milton and Pooley had had this ritual described fully to them , graphically and with actions , but it still held great fascination . |
| 5 | State power , and consequently that of the education authorities , may have been eroded , but it still controls formal education . |
| 6 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
| 7 | The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside . |
| 8 | This is bound to be somewhat artificial , since the obligation to show all the stages of your reasoning forces you to appear rather more introspective than you would be in real life , but it still provides good practice in arranging and presenting material in an acceptable style . |