Example sentences of "[noun] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 2 | Yet questions remain about those many schools still locked in the traditional relationship of ‘ casual acquaintances ’ or ‘ bureaucrat and claimant ’ discussed earlier . |
| 3 | Many primary schools still go under the title of junior mixed infant , a very curious and old fashioned title . |
| 4 | However , doubts still remained about the safety of an estimated 1,000 foreign nationals who had chosen to remain in Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 5 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
| 6 | With just over two months still to go before the opening of the fair , 517 of the 540 stands available have been sold , and the remaining 23 are expected to be taken up shortly . |
| 7 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 8 | I am saddened to find that such thinking still exists within the profession . |
| 9 | The form in which , however , the tension still emerges in the in-service education of teachers and in such training as is provided for education management in the period after the 1988 Education Reform Act is that of a preoccupation with the separate skills and tasks of management . |
| 10 | Riven pulled his cloak up about his neck , his bones aching and stiff and his legs still complaining about the horse between them . |
| 11 | His body was twisted and his hind-parts and back legs still lay along the ground . |
| 12 | Edward still watched from the doorway . |
| 13 | She smiled across to where Edward still frolicked on the sand . |
| 14 | The tips of some of those great splinters of igneous rock still stick above the surface of the long-returned sand , and they form the Bomb Circle , poor dead Paul 's most fitting monument : a blasphemous stone circle where the shadows play . |
| 15 | Perhaps more important , and there are close parallels here to our critique of ethology and sociobiology , Freud still skirts round the difficult question of how primordial instincts are socially constructed . |
| 16 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 17 | The faithful in Scotland called Elgin Cathedral ‘ The Lanthorn of the North ’ , drawing them to the peace and Christian power of the place , and its light still shines through the ruined windows and stone crosses : moss , whether on old garden walls , or as here , in ancient grounds , encourages reflection . |
| 18 | With the exception of one cottage , where a light still shone in the window , all the others were in total darkness . |
| 19 | Even if we do find such conventions , the appeal of the conception still depends on the political ideal of protected expectations . |
| 20 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 21 | A European Economic Interest Grouping has already been approved , but the long awaited European Company Statute still lies on the table . |
| 22 | Their successors still stand in the middle distance . |
| 23 | A substantial stone-lined stepped culvert that supplied water to the wheel still remains under the lane and empties back into the stream via a long tail-race to the rear of the mill . |
| 24 | The only second-class side still left in the competition travel to Stradey Park to take on mighty Llanelli , the current holders of the trophy and eight-times winners in all . |
| 25 | At the foot of the pole the succulent body of the deer lay sprawled , blood still seeping from the severed arteries of its neck . |
| 26 | It was held that the car still belonged to the trader . |
| 27 | He stumbled through , his mouth still covered by the scarf , using his hat to cover his face . |
| 28 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 29 | The mill pond still existed during the 1950s , but has now been filled in . |
| 30 | ‘ Is tea still served in the Doctors ' House ? ’ |