Example sentences of "[noun] still [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet questions remain about those many schools still locked in the traditional relationship of ‘ casual acquaintances ’ or ‘ bureaucrat and claimant ’ discussed earlier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With the exception of one cottage , where a light still shone in the window , all the others were in total darkness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their successors still stand in the middle distance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Is tea still served in the Doctors ' House ? ’ |
| 9 | The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person . |
| 10 | Most threatened animals still live in the wild where their chances of surviving at all depend on their habitat . |
| 11 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And meanwhile , a ruthless killer still lurked in the darkness . |
| 14 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
| 15 | The Scots still threaten in the north whilst in Europe great alliances are formed which leave England isolated . |
| 16 | The remnants of this practice still exist in the form of the viva voce , where a student 's work is assessed by examiners . |
| 17 | The wrecked Wellington bomber still smouldered in the open field . |
| 18 | But the issue still remained in the balance for a further twenty years . |
| 19 | There 's a lot of work still to do in the barn . |
| 20 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 21 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 22 | The Ostrich Inn still stands in the ancient village of Colnbrook near Slough . |
| 23 | There was an arrow still lodged in the throat . |
| 24 | To be exact it is 3,146 metres or 10,480 feet high ; but what is distinctive about Balaïtous , when you see it from here , is that to the left of the summit is one of the few significant glaciers still surviving in the Pyrenees . |
| 25 | This was the nineteenth-century English approach , and many such offences still survive in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 ( relating , for example , to injuries caused by gunpowder , throwing corrosive fluid , failing to provide food for apprentices , setting spring guns ) . |
| 26 | A Bosnian evacuee who 's been receiving medical treatment in this country claims there are more deserving casualties still suffering in the war zone . |
| 27 | After an hour or so the Carpettes still linger in the parking lot as the coach doors slam shut . |
| 28 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 29 | But this separation still continued in the cases to which the statute did not apply — e.g. if the trustee had active duties to perform , or if he was possessed , not of a freehold , but of chattels real or personal to another 's use . |
| 30 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |