Example sentences of "[noun] still [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled across to where Edward still frolicked on the sand . |
| 2 | Even if we do find such conventions , the appeal of the conception still depends on the political ideal of protected expectations . |
| 3 | A European Economic Interest Grouping has already been approved , but the long awaited European Company Statute still lies on the table . |
| 4 | No system is perfect , though , and a great deal still depends on the skill and experience of the excavation team ; to a larger extent , an excavation is only as good as its excavators . |
| 5 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 6 | Remains of these baths still exist on the south side of the Pantheon . |
| 7 | Clinton murmured , his eyes still fixed on the device . |
| 8 | Upstairs , Donna heard the sound of forced entry , her eyes still fixed on the barely moving form of Stark . |
| 9 | He was leaning back , his eyes still fixed on the picture , and his cheeks were wet . |
| 10 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 11 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 12 | The ex-soldier had n't moved , his big hands resting on his knees , his feet still propped on the canvas bag . |
| 13 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 largely prevent these abuses , but it is true that , in so far as those Acts allow them to , finance companies still insist on the terms being as beneficial to themselves as possible . |
| 14 | Then she turned her attention to the tabby cat still spreadeagled on the back of the broom with its eyes screwed tightly shut and its claws gripping on for dear life . |
| 15 | Clouds heaped higher in the west , but the sun still shone on the village . |
| 16 | He looked up with satisfaction at the panelling of the new box-beds — comfort and decency for all three of them , while others in the village still slept on the floor like beasts . |
| 17 | It simply has n't been demonstrated that any cognizance has been made of R P G two , therefore that these concerns still remain on the table . |
| 18 | The tide was making , although the boats still rested on the mud . |
| 19 | The breakdown of a laminar jet usually starts quite close to the orifice , where the velocity profile still depends on the details of orifice geometry and the flow upstream of it . |
| 20 | And with his attention still focused on the Republic his Lordship spoke in glowing terms of the ‘ exciting and imaginative report ’ , the South 's Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh and his team had prepared on their food industry . |
| 21 | Attention still concentrated on the Black Sea and on the slow subsidence of the Turkish Empire from which , it was believed , Russia alone would gain , with consequent hazard to British strategic and commercial interests . |
| 22 | For his days still went on the toys and his evenings on the puppets , in dangerous and uneasy silence , down there . |
| 23 | Exactly how this is achieved is not clear , for experiments using 10 per cent HCI show that although the mineral content of the bones and dentine is removed , leaving the bones with a soft rubbery texture , there is usually some enamel still left on the teeth . |
| 24 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 25 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 26 | Groping for the light switch , whose position he had not yet memorised perfectly , he saw the evening 's post still lying on the table in the hall where he had put it before he came out . |
| 27 | So I returned to the laboratory , where the pieces of the woman monster 's body still lay on the floor . |
| 28 | It was a clear day , cloudless and cold , with the overnight rain still glistening on the cobbles . |
| 29 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |