Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Coln St Aldwyns Society still want the pub retained as a village inn and would support any buyer willing to keep it open . |
| 2 | While recognising these problems practitioners of TFP analysis still claim that TFI and TFP , taken together , can tell us useful things about economic performance . |
| 3 | The Inverness-Kyle railway still runs past and the train still halts if anyone requests it , but with the ferry gone and the road traffic diverted the place has gone to seed ; there are a few houses , a craft shop , the railway platform , a wharf and an abandoned compound owned by Marconi , and the hotel . |
| 4 | The Ostrich Inn still stands in the ancient village of Colnbrook near Slough . |
| 5 | People that go to Comdex do n't rate Unix , the twice-yearly technology poll conducted by Byte magazine among attendees seems to suggest — and IBM Corp still has an uphill fight to win over the hearts and minds that are presently in the Microsoft Corp camp . |
| 6 | Though now a shell , having been stabilized by the British Historic Buildings Trust , Pell Wall still offers great potential for a number of uses . |
| 7 | The Cork area still boasts some of the best rallying country in Ireland and I understand this year 's route includes many of the classic stages from the region . |
| 8 | Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility . |
| 9 | Swindon Town still have it all to play for in their quest for a place in the Premier League , but the sounds emanating from this Manchester Road recording studio are enough to frighten the life out of their play-off rivals . |
| 10 | This decline is possibly of post-war origin , as in 1949 Thorney Island , the marshes around Pagham Harbour and Selsey , and Rye Harbour still held a total of about 150 pairs compared to about 35 in 1967 . |
| 11 | Tom Rodent still presides over Anger Detach ; Nice Newton and Lib Caller are at Blooms ; Joan Mural , as ever , is at John Mural , publisher of Lord Byroads . |
| 12 | Cars and auto components have been made in Birmingham since their invention , and the Rover Group still manufactures here . |
| 13 | They used to be Captain America , until Mr Marvel got the hump and Mr C&A took exception to their logo , now they 're called EUGENIUS , Kurt Cobain still likes them a lot and they may well be the new Nirvana of Vaselined Fannies . |
| 14 | It was evident to all the family that Stephen Lassiter still loved Tamar and that she , too , was happy . |
| 15 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 16 | The tracks of the old South Brent to Kingsbridge line still run past the house , and the original station canopy survives . |
| 17 | Midlands Electricity still faces a family claim for compensation over Michael Grant 's death . |
| 18 | Although the Chicago School over-used the Darwinian metaphor of the struggle for survival , and although it made the mistake of equating ‘ society ’ or ‘ community ’ with the social systems of relatively small areas , the Chicago School still has much to offer in terms of the new kind of spatial sociology which we started to develop in Chapter 1 . |
| 19 | Beneath the hill on which the serail huddles , the great iron gates of Jaffa port still stand next to a row of small stone shops , their Arab architecture belied by the Hebrew names above the windows . |
| 20 | Lincoln Cathedral still retains a Romanesque lower section to its west front with a remarkable portal ( 395 ) . |
| 21 | Weaker versions of the Queen Bee syndrome still operate among prominent North American and British female psychologists . |
| 22 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 23 | As suggested , the codes of best practice put forward by the Cadbury Committee still need to be put onto a more formal basis and helped to work . |
| 24 | Now the gate piers lean at terrifying angles , overgrown with hawthorns , and cattle graze beneath the oaks and right up to the cellar windows of the south side of the house ; ivy smothers the old garden walls , and Burton on Trent in the valley below creeps nearer and nearer , an enormous and inevitable incoming tide , towards the steep little hill where Brizlincote Hall still stands high and proud . |
| 25 | This ‘ one nation/two alliances ’ model , it is argued , would buy time for the world to become adjusted to a re-unified Germany , and to decide whether Nato and the Warsaw Pact still served any useful purposes . |
| 26 | ( Note : it was something of a surprise , given the above , to find that the first batch of UK product still had the American manuals … ) |
| 27 | House-hunters in the Castlereagh area still have the opportunity to purchase a few remaining properties through the scheme and can get further information by ringing freephone 333644 . |
| 28 | This extract from an 1830 North and East Riding Gazette still holds good today , with the exception of the population , which numbers around 120 , and the parish now covers nearly 4,500 acres . |
| 29 | This House of Lords decision still did not achieve a clear distinction between leases and licences . |
| 30 | US hopes for speedy troop withdrawal When the shooting dies down in Panama , the Bush Administration still faces a minefield of perils in Latin America , Tom Redburn reports . |