Example sentences of "still [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does , on any count , seem extraordinary that thirty years after de Pomiane 's heyday , the dispiriting progress from soup to fish , from fish to meat and on , remorselessly on , to salad , cheese , a piece of pastry , a crème caramel or an ice cream , still constitutes the standard menu throughout the entire French-influenced world of hotels and catering establishments . |
| 2 | There are larger fish , particularly in Loch Rannoch , and since the end of the nineteenth century there are records of huge trout being caught , fish of up to 22lb ; most seasons Rannoch still produces the odd monster . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ireland still produces the famous Donegal carpets . |
| 5 | Mr Gorbachev still thinks the old system can be reformed . |
| 6 | It is likely that Li Peng , the prime minister , still tastes the personal gall of 1m people in Hong Kong taking to the streets after Tiananmen to call for his ejection from office . |
| 7 | Even once the bike is on its side , the rider still fingers the front brake lever , scrubbing off excess speed as the disc pads gently bite on the decelerating rotors . |
| 8 | Instead , it proved that he still has the political antennae of a party whip . |
| 9 | Mrs Marcos may believe that America still has the final say in Philippine affairs ; after all , America persuaded her husband to call the election that led to his downfall in 1986 . |
| 10 | Lydford , in Devon , still has the abandoned streets of a late Saxon burgh which never succeeded . |
| 11 | ‘ I think she still has the odd nightmare . |
| 12 | She will play when she is relaxed , but although she is now seven or eight years old , she still has the exaggerated movements of a young puppy . |
| 13 | The spotted eagle owl assemblage from Lake Baringo has lower proportions of postcrania compared with Verreaux eagle owl on the same figure ( Fig. 3.3 ) , but it still has the low proportions of isolated teeth seen in the typical owls . |
| 14 | Crawford still has the original score of The Little Sweep , complete with the composer 's own notation . |
| 15 | He still has the bloodstained fragment of sleeve showing where the bullet went through his arm . |
| 16 | The difficulty remains that , in this respect at least , Ford still has the superior credentials . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Islam is also the most recent as it only began in 612 A.D. Even though this religion is different from others it still has the common belief in good that all religions have . |
| 19 | The house still has the romantic character of a Victorian historical novel — its chimneypiece is still painted with curious devices , and there are panelled rooms and hiding places , including the ‘ sacred hole ’ in the attic where Charles is said to have spent the night . |
| 20 | And it is not masculine , because whatever male teachers and guides a woman has , she still needs the inspirational feminine which resonates with her own being . |
| 21 | Despite the government 's arbitrary confiscation of high denomination notes in January , the outstanding stock of cash still dwarfs the annual value of retail sails . |
| 22 | The façade is Lombard Romanesque style , probably built in the thirteenth-century , and still contains the old doorway . |
| 23 | However , in his version we are ‘ normally ’ conditioned out of this ; his theory still contains the positivist assumption that criminals are different from non-criminals ( and ‘ pathological ’ ) — in this case through their abnormal resistance to the conditioning process . |
| 24 | The tank was already set up , but was adapted for the Asiaticus and still contains the original occupants of Rinoloricaria species and Corydoras . |
| 25 | Winner of the Eclipse Stakes when ridden by Michael Kinane and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes , Opera House is heading for the ‘ Horse of the Year ’ award and although the going may be softer than he would like tomorrow he still looks the obvious choice . |
| 26 | Whereas in Kant 's theory , in a sense , there still lingers the common sense conception of space and time as some kind of backcloth against which the positions of phenomenal objects can be uniquely charted and distinguished from each other , Leibniz regarded space and time as properties of entities . |
| 27 | Old Spice still heads the mass fragrance market , ahead of Insignia and Mandate . |
| 28 | ( He still possesses the tattered paperbacks that inspired him as a trainee BP manager in the 1950s — Dale Carnegie 's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Lord Beaverbrook 's folksy handbook to success , Do n't Trust to Luck . ) |
| 29 | So the camera 's view is steadily narrowing and the smaller screen image still fills the whole frame size of the camera filmstock . |
| 30 | It is worse than inadequate because , unlike the inadequate shape shown earlier , which still allows the remaining space to be filled , this one blocks the space . |