Example sentences of "[coord] still [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a document about the Labour party 's policy attitudes and it rightly points out that more than half of Labour Members have either recently belonged to or still belong to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 2 | I fall asleep more grudgingly , thrashing at the waves , either reluctant to let a good day depart or still bitching about a bad one . |
| 3 | Even so , PT Timah took many years to develop its own technical expertise and still depends to an important degree on technical assistance from multinationals , including Billiton . |
| 4 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 5 | ( ‘ I pointed out to my boss that we could run the business straight and still pull in the same sort of money , but he said straight money did n't spend right . ’ ) |
| 6 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 7 | Rendezvous back in Çokertme where Captain Ibrahim still runs his tiny restaurant tucked beneath a range of wild mountains , and still insists on a round of belly dancing from his visitors . |
| 8 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 9 | Church Farm has been tenanted ever since , and from Clives , through marriages to the Earls of Powis , it came and still belongs to the Earls of Plymouth . |
| 10 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 11 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |
| 12 | When you are young and still living within the family it is often hard to acknowledge that you are sexually active and need to take some precautions . |
| 13 | The salaries of government employees such as doctors and teachers were subject to inflation and still suffered from the Soviet concept of paying intellectuals less than manual workers . |
| 14 | Listening to children reading has dominated the early stages of reading instruction for several decades , and still does to a great extent . |
| 15 | Women take more time , talk easily and still adhere to the strict rules of manners . |
| 16 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 17 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 18 | But if I do admit his claim to enjoy them , and still persist in the inquisition ( ‘ Why do you like gibbons ? ’ ) , the logical nature of the question will have changed . |
| 19 | But , if they can play as indifferently as this and still win by a record margin , then the Gods are obviously with them . |
| 20 | She was happily pregnant and still sustained by the hills . |
| 21 | Rather lovable in spite of all ’ — was recorded at age 7 and still remained on the secondary school record at age 14 . |
| 22 | It becomes clear from Boswell 's descriptions that this family were considerably less Anglicised than the Macdonalds on Skye , and still remained on the side of the Gaels . |
| 23 | Done it all and still sits in the chair . |
| 24 | Red deer are ideal animals to be considered for such sustainable management , because they are already maintained by human intervention on open hill land , very different from the forest habitat which they once occupied in Scotland and still inhabit in the rest of Europe . |
| 25 | Gaitskell ( now dominating Labour 's economic policy and still smarting from the defeat over Clow ) cut the allocations to electricity more than to the other fuel industries ( which the planners felt could meet energy demand at less capital cost ) . |
| 26 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 27 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 28 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 29 | Slowly but surely Carter are on the move again , still pertinent and still clinging to the plot . |
| 30 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |