Example sentences of "still [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breed and its crosses still tend to dominate the beef herds of North and South America , Australia , New Zealand , Denmark and Finland . |
| 2 | Whichever the true cause ( and the mystery has never been entirely solved , the German official history still preferring to attribute the success to the sheer ‘ force ’ of the Bavarian attack ) , within four hours on the morning of March 20th the entire position fell , with negligible losses to the attackers . |
| 3 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 4 | Interest is payable on damages from the date of the cause of action to the date of judgment in all personal injury cases ( unless there are special reasons to the contrary ) and the court may order interest on that basis in other cases , but the plaintiff may still prefer to have the money in hand . |
| 5 | Yet a UK importer would still prefer to send the payment for the goods to America , either in US dollars or sterling ( or in any other agreed currency for that matter ) . |
| 6 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
| 7 | Throughout this interview Mrs Singh , who was still struggling to grasp the implications of what the head and educational psychologist were telling her , attempted to contribute . |
| 8 | They are still struggling to push the US currency safely back to spring levels . |
| 9 | It 's two years since President Ceaucescu was overthrown , but Romania is still struggling to overcome the legacy of decades of communist dictatorship . |
| 10 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 11 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 12 | Of course it still has to sell the idea to management and our source thinks Austin is still 24 months from a product , but the notion could be IBM 's answer to Microsoft 's NT . |
| 13 | The present generation , however , still has to finance the promises already made . |
| 14 | then the other one still has to have the equivalent of a C commanding although it 's in a , in a different way . |
| 15 | They still want to take the park over and run it on a similar operation to Southsea/Rom . |
| 16 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 17 | Both the County Council and the '64 Company still want to rebuild the WHR from Pen-y-Mount , on the edge of Porthmadog , to Pont Creoser , near Beddgelert . |
| 18 | Where the UK limit is higher than the EC one , for instance in the case of a print valued at below £39,600 and above £11,900 ( respectively the UK and EC limits ) , the exporter still needs to fill the EC licence , but this will be granted quickly , provided that lawful provenance is proven . |
| 19 | Some observers noted that the killing appeared to mark a new outbreak of conflict between old and new Mafia clans , which in spite of the electoral reforms approved in June 1991 [ see pp. 38299-300 ] still expected to influence the outcome of elections . |
| 20 | Spokesman Ken Lawrence said : ‘ Despite what has been written in TODAY , we still expect to win the vote . ’ |
| 21 | For all his doubts and self-irony , Palomar still wants to penetrate the secrets of the world and , to this end , what is seen acts only as a means of activating the thoughtfulness of language . |
| 22 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 23 | • Mark Richmond , who sent shock waves through the nuclear physics community by threatening to shut down the NSF , still wants to shift the council 's funding from big facilities towards individual grants . |
| 24 | Doddie Weir still has a lot to learn about No 8 play when it comes to back-row moves , witness the occasion against England when he picked up against the wheel and still tried to complete the move . |
| 25 | Most firms are still organised to exploit the efficiencies to be gained from breaking down work into a sequence of specialised tasks , an approach first described by Adam Smith in his famous account of production in a pin factory . |
| 26 | The main block is that the London-based mandarins of the BCS still appear to see the world from the seventies standpoint of the large data processing installation or university department , full of Cobol or Fortran programmers , churning out hand-crafted systems for mainframes . |
| 27 | The current laws on all kicking should remain except that any ball caught on the full from kick in general play can be returned directly into touch with the line-out at the point where the ball goes out of play — e.g. a scrum-half kicking for touch would still need to bounce the ball into touch but , should the kick be gathered on the full , then it can be kicked directly into touch . |
| 28 | Her body still seemed to hold the imprint of his hands , her lips remembered his — firm , warm , promising , exciting … |
| 29 | Only Dr Peter Chester of the CEGB still seemed to find the evidence wanting . |
| 30 | For all his much-vaunted ‘ conversion ’ , it seemed that he still lusted after the pleasures of the flesh , still itched to finger the curve of Clare 's side , to feel her thigh brush against his . |