Example sentences of "still [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ? |
| 2 | Cabinet officers , dogged by side-issues of ‘ diversity ’ and ‘ balance ’ , are still struggling to fill the lower-level posts in their departments . |
| 3 | Despite Boeing 's considerable investment of $10 million dollars to purchase 10 000 ( 417 days ) worth of wind tunnel time in the 1960s , they still failed to develop the optimal design , as subsequent improvements and refinements to the B747 are testimony . |
| 4 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 5 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 6 | But she still has to take a daily cocktail of drugs . |
| 7 | This approach is more likely to damage a rescuee for good , especially one who still has to learn the basic rules . |
| 8 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't run any of the major three championships after Barcelona , but I still want to do the big marathons , like London and New York . |
| 10 | I , I still want to have the downward trend but I suspect until this is sorted out we 're not going to get you off it altogether . |
| 11 | Already appreciative of the association 's practice of encouraging , where appropriate , joint funding and partnership in the support of all South East Arts clients , the association still needs to secure the full membership of all local authorities in the South East area and develop a clear , joint strategy on the development of the arts for each of the three county areas . |
| 12 | The Labour Party was still expected to take the leading part , an agitation being started for an emergency Labour Conference to discuss the Alliance . |
| 13 | Extra revenue was to come from higher telephone and unemployment insurance charges , but the cost of unification was still expected to increase the public-sector deficit above the DM140,000 million ( approximately US$94 , 580 million ) projected in December 1990 [ see p. 37904 ; for end-January rise in Federal Bank discount rate see p. 37978 ] . |
| 14 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 15 | As for British Steel 's monolith , at least it still stands to give a little reassurance against Teesside 's depression and unemployment ; it may be recalled that Teesside steel made North-Eastern strength . |
| 16 | ‘ I still expect to have a substantial interest in the day-to-day running of the club and my assistant Lil Fuccillo will be appointed manager . ’ |
| 17 | Admittedly the British , despite their economic problems , still tried to retain the leading role . |
| 18 | Bravely they still tried to send a regular allowance home . |
| 19 | And yet still unwilling to creep away , still wanting to arouse the sleeping wolf , wanting … |
| 20 | I do not know if scientists are taught to write precis or if arts students are still made to study a little science . |
| 21 | Now Susan can look forward to a cosy flat this winter … but she still plans to give the British Gas man a very chilly reception . |
| 22 | The word is still used to describe a treacherous person with evil intent , as instanced by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night : |
| 23 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |
| 24 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
| 25 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 26 | about law and the film business cos there 's loads of jobs to choose from , ba and you 've still got to do the same thing |
| 27 | ‘ You 've still got to have a fourth member . |
| 28 | But alike in the British and the American traditions the expectation that the poet would have a message was so ingrained that even by those readers most alert to and informed about Eliot 's French connections The Waste Land was still thought to deliver an urgent signal — usually about the bankruptcy of the European , or the Western , cultural and civic traditions . |
| 29 | Well it 's not encouraged is it , because they 're still told to ring the divisional telephone number |
| 30 | The reason is that some of the influential popularizers of modern evolutionary theory still manage to confuse the developmental issue with the evolutionary one . |