Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Stroud , 37 , his frost-bitten fingers still taped up , said : ‘ I hope very much I remember just how bad and difficult this was — and never do anything like it again . |
| 2 | BELOW Minoan houses still standing on Santorini , having been buried in ash during the eruption around 1400 bc . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend share with me some anger that 19 Labour authorities still have not even bothered to bid for the funds that are available ? |
| 4 | Five of the 13 Labour authorities still refuse to participate in local consultative groups , although Brent is about to reverse its policy and in Ealing the matter is under discussion . |
| 5 | Yet as long as France and Germany remain committed to it , the programme to give the whole European market a non-inflationary money still has bite . |
| 6 | In addition , practical methods for solving the matrix homogeneous Hilbert problem for particular non-colinear cases still need to be developed . |
| 7 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 8 | The strikers , supported by left-wing parties outside the government coalition , were demanding the release of all political prisoners still imprisoned from the Pinochet regime , despite an earlier expression of hope by President Aylwin that all such detainees would be released before the end of the year . |
| 9 | He went on to justify the ANC 's resort to armed struggle in 1960 , describing it as " a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid " , and declared : " The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today . |
| 10 | A GENUINE European cinema still exists , untainted by the blandishments and violence of contemporary Hollywood : and this year 's Cannes festival has proved it . |
| 11 | In short , a European parliament still had to come into existence . |
| 12 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , weak candidates still get failed , which is always a bitter and embarrassing business , negating the value of several years ' work , often leading to anger within a department , internal enquiries about the quality of supervision , and even threats of legal action from the disappointed candidate . |
| 14 | Chevenement is finding that finance from the treasury , the banks or from private industry still rules aux quais de Paris . |
| 15 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 16 | Toothy anglo teenagers still greet guests at the $300-a-night hotels . |
| 17 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 18 | In this ‘ new art history ’ , formal and iconological considerations still obtain , though the emphasis is on the relationship between form and content , and what that reveals about social , economic and cultural forces affecting production . |
| 19 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 20 | Some European nations still gave much weight to traditional authority , but most of them also showed a growing tendency to seek to legitimize such authority on other grounds . |
| 21 | She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss . |
| 22 | ‘ Anton will have to go , ’ said Crosby , whose Wembley-bound side still need points to guard against the threat of relegation . |
| 23 | I emphasise this point because popular topographical books still tend to suggest that any particular place is sited where it is for defence reasons , or because it is near a source of water . |
| 24 | In contrast , most nomadic and tribal groups still make rugs in the time-honoured dark reds and primary hues of their ancestors , while Persian workshop groups employ both pastel and rich shades . |
| 25 | The leaders of the British jazz-funk explosion in the early '80s had ten hit albums in their 11 years with Polydor and their old contract still had another six albums to run . |
| 26 | The old chairman still worries about them , about the continued fight for survival . |
| 27 | Old Spice still heads the mass fragrance market , ahead of Insignia and Mandate . |
| 28 | It also ensures that only one instance ( primary and secondary ) of an offlined module exists ie. if an offlined module is returned to online storage , the offline instance is maintained , so that when the module is subsequently offlined again , Offline will simply delete it from online storage knowing that the offline copies still exist . |
| 29 | Among some fine town houses are Moray House , built after James VI had abandoned his capital for the greater adulation of London but when a Scottish parliament still endeavoured to preserve its autonomy in Edinburgh ; and relics of ancient inns more accessible to coaching traffic than those in the congested upper reaches . |
| 30 | But the secret wandering singers from Wales and the itinerant preaching friars still went their ways , and the prodigy still washed like a wave before them , whispering treason . |