Example sentences of "[noun] still [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syria still seems highly problematical , and I have a Dutch friend who turned tail and fled when his approach to territorial waters was marked by the arrival of a reception committee in the shape of a fleet of gunboats . |
| 2 | The car still has only 16,000 miles on the clock . |
| 3 | But perhaps Evan still thinks too much , or perhaps he does n't think enough or , then again , perhaps he does n't really think at all … |
| 4 | In the last decade of the century , therefore , democracy and what may be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ has become a political principle almost universally subscribed to , though its actual practice still remains very imperfect in large areas of the world . |
| 5 | A place where a certain set of responses still lies perfectly intact . |
| 6 | Although Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum spends less time in this country than his three younger brothers , the ruler of Dubai still owns about 130 top racehorses here and has extensive business interests . |
| 7 | Though petroleum still makes up four-fifths of export earnings , he has made the country less dependent on oil . |
| 8 | The current division of powers between the central Board of Education and the 32 local boards encourages buck-passing ( problems can always be blamed on somebody else ) without either reducing bureaucracy ( the central board still employs almost 4,000 people ) or devolving power to individual schools . |
| 9 | Driver said that ‘ Good old Genklene is still quite a big seller to laboratory customers ’ — Vickers still sells over 1000 litres a year . |
| 10 | My husband still feels very cross . |
| 11 | Follow the opponent 's shape , not his attacking limb , because although an individual technique may have been successfully evaded , the opponent still remains potentially dangerous . |
| 12 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 13 | Couples with children also fared badly during the 1980s , but their risk of poverty still remains much lower than that of lone parents ( 18 per cent in 1988 , up from 9 per cent in 1979 ) . |
| 14 | Never as powerful as he was when Harold Wilson was Prime Minister and Jeremy Thorpe was a client , Goodman still tries very hard to exert influence and broker deals . |
| 15 | In the end it will need the writer of Jonah to recall the great truth which his people found , and which the Church still finds so hard to grasp , namely that God does indeed throw his largesse to all and sundry . |
| 16 | The country 's reputation for political stability and banking secrecy still brings in footloose cash from trouble-spots around the world . |
| 17 | Nor , judging by the bravura new stories , do the women writers of the 1990s expect as much from the future as their forebears did : old age is portrayed as painfully grim and burdensome in Candia McWilliam 's twilight home tale ; the classy heroine of Emily Prager 's Moonwalk still weeps over wrecked love and dreams . |
| 18 | Subdued housing market turnover since the end of 1988 has also made it difficult for borrowers to clear arrears by trading down , and some may have thought it in their best interests to default once their mortgages exceeded the value of their homes — although the borrower in this situation still remains legally liable for any outstanding debt after the property has been sold . |
| 19 | At the lowest level , the 520ST still looks slightly better value than an Amiga , which has an operating system not everyone likes . |
| 20 | Even limiting the choice to alternative financial assets still opens up many opportunities . |
| 21 | It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the GCSE still labours under one tremendous disadvantage . |
| 23 | The CAP still takes up two thirds of the EC budget , but only £1 in every £3 gets through to the farmers . |
| 24 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 25 | Just a few years younger , the Pullman Astoria still looks as grand as when Churchill stayed there , though the neighbourhood has certainly lost some of its sparkle ( Upper Town , 103 Rue Royale , telephone 02/2176290 , cost 6,000 fr ) . |
| 26 | Their eight-pointed cross still flies over Grand Harbour . |