Example sentences of "[conj] still [vb -s] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further question is whether or not a less costly form of regulation could be devised that still allows the same degree of competition in the markets with the same level of investor protection . |
| 2 | Losing his life in the crash of Avro York in the foothills of the Alps late in 1944 , there is no doubt that despite the controversy that still surrounds the Big Wing theory , the RAF lost one of its most brilliant commanders . |
| 3 | Lonesome Snapper Pond is the kind of place that still has a general store . |
| 4 | It then passes near Gate Manor , a fine Victorian mock-Jacobean hall , before crossing the Dee by way of Rash Bridge , a quiet spot with a tiny Methodist chapel and an old mill ( one of three corn mills that at one time ground in Dentdale ) that still has a working waterwheel . |
| 5 | Although Sprake got and still gets a great deal of stick , including from me , he was in fact an excellent keeper . |
| 6 | June Thomas was an engineering draughtswoman until three years ago , and still does a full-time job . |
| 7 | This was consistently commended by advisory staff throughout the period under review and still remains a central component of expected practice ( for example , Leeds City Council 1989a , 1989e , 1990a , 1990c ) . |
| 8 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 9 | One thinks himself the master of others , and still remains the greater slave than they . |
| 10 | Instead it demonstrated that Scotland is profoundly conservative and still possesses a robust and apparently irreducible Conservative and Unionist vote . |
| 11 | The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague . |
| 12 | In Islam , it symbolizes the bridge between Paradise , the world of men and the world below , and still retains a religious significance that is no longer evident in the West . |
| 13 | She was in hospital for several weeks and still bears the physical and psychological scars of the attack . |
| 14 | It was a richly decorated example and still contains a coffered marble ceiling and part of the cella wall . |
| 15 | The façade is Lombard Romanesque style , probably built in the thirteenth-century , and still contains the old doorway . |
| 16 | The tank was already set up , but was adapted for the Asiaticus and still contains the original occupants of Rinoloricaria species and Corydoras . |
| 17 | He or she is not nowadays very likely to feature in the book you may write , but the idea lies at the heart of detective fiction and still exercises a subtle influence . |
| 18 | ‘ Rock ’ climbing has already overtaken shopping as the number one leisure pursuit in most parts of the developed world — and still has a good way to go before it peaks . |
| 19 | I was from a family in Northern California , about thirty miles out of San Francisco ; I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s , but we were actually swimmers . |
| 20 | The Grange has always been a happy house and still has a faint atmosphere of piety , fully intended by Mr Teulon . |
| 21 | Porridge was repeated this year and still has a big following inside . ’ |
| 22 | He is about fifty and still has a full head of jet black slicked-back hair , Elvis-style . |
| 23 | Brand A has been carefully put together to ensure that the slimmer enjoys a wide range of textures and flavours and still has the psychological satisfaction of preparing the food he or she eats . |
| 24 | The Tobago offers a combination of speed , style , some luxury , but still offers a basic simplicity with a fixed undercarriage , which should equate to modest maintenance costs . |
| 25 | The link between Edinburgh and Leith is the spacious boulevard known as Leith Walk , which sadly lacks the Parisian elegance it might have had but still retains a certain impressiveness . |
| 26 | The Parable of the Lost Son is much more involved but still follows the same principle that the son who was lost is found again . |
| 27 | That gamble may not be unconnected to the old England-Australia veto power , which has never been employed but still offends the newer Test nations . |
| 28 | The French-built 624ft Dreamward supports a two-storey casino , shopping arcade and conference centre , but still has a shallow enough draught to take her to the nought degrees longitude line in south east London . |
| 29 | This is a ‘ working island ’ , a place that needs tourists but still has an economic life of its own . |
| 30 | Entering the third year of the Intifada , it is more than ever clear that time is of the essence : how to keep it going long enough at a level which does not yield to the temptations of ruinous , reciprocal escalation , but still disturbs the outside world enough to get them to bring the Israeli extremists to heel . |