Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] still [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 2 | Toothy anglo teenagers still greet guests at the $300-a-night hotels . |
| 3 | In contrast , most nomadic and tribal groups still make rugs in the time-honoured dark reds and primary hues of their ancestors , while Persian workshop groups employ both pastel and rich shades . |
| 4 | Some traditionalists still send horses to Eire or mainland Europe for this barbarous treatment , but the Bristol research suggests that they 're wasting owners ' money . |
| 5 | In spite of this justification , however , some groups still expressed misgivings about the selection of ( i ) as an opening . |
| 6 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |
| 7 | A few companies still arrange house to house collection of the premiums , including : - |
| 8 | No doubt some dealers still do business in that way . |
| 9 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 10 | Often the file formats for hand scanners in particular depend on the program , and can be obscure — it 's not often , for instance , that you see a PCC or CUT file these days , yet some scanners still provide files in those formats . |
| 11 | However , in 1988 over 300 bureaux still lacked schemes . |
| 12 | The universe would be left in a very nonuniform state , with some regions still having symmetry between the different forces . |
| 13 | All the little old ladies still wish stars had got married |
| 14 | Some travellers still prefer muscle power : cycling in India . |
| 15 | As of 1982 more than 300,000 households still had water with more than 100ug/l lead in their tapwater . |
| 16 | But even if basic training can be divided into interviewing skills , information searching and welfare concepts , personal differences still make group training difficult . |
| 17 | She had had no idea that such events still took place . |
| 18 | Even then , 26 Tory Eurosceptics still defied Mr Major to vote against the Government while at least another six abstained . |
| 19 | Whilst some details should be rethought in the light of new technology , its basic ideas still remain sound and must be implemented in any design and manufacturing establishment . |
| 20 | But non-fund holders still refer patients in the traditional way , hoping that the hospital 's budget can cope . |
| 21 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 22 | Perhaps these camps still have surprises in store . |
| 23 | Mercifully , human lice still abhor cleanliness . ’ |
| 24 | Many solicitors still obtain business through ‘ networking ’ , that is , establishing a network of friends and business contacts likely to refer business to the solicitor . |
| 25 | The decade ended with the railway hotels not merely privatised but in many cases under second and third owners , generally poorer in standard and distinctly without the nation having benefited ( since they ran at a profit anyway ) , with Travellers-Fare privatised and healthier ( both profitwise and in what they served ) , and with InterCity rethinking the role of the restaurant car and with many chefs still preparing meals on board . |
| 26 | Support for the BSP , led by former BCP ideology chief Alexander Lilov , was strongest in the countryside , where communists in local party or mayoral offices still dominated politics . |
| 27 | In this period capital account transactions were at a much lower level than they are nowadays , partly because many countries still had restrictions or limitations on this type of flow . |
| 28 | My survey revealed that a few people in Sukuma-speaking areas still had difficulty in answering questions in Swahili ; others who understood Swahili nonetheless asked to be interviewed in Sukuma . |
| 29 | It is extraordinary , therefore , that these desperately poor countries still owe money to ( and still struggle to repay ) the rich financial institutions in the North at the expense of feeding or delivering health care to their own people . |
| 30 | The survey , Equal Voice , carried out by Portsmouth University 's social services research and information unit , showed how black communities still had difficulty gaining access to social services and how their needs went unmet . |