Example sentences of "still [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 2 | At the end of the War , around a half of British households still lacked a fixed bath with hot , running water , but electricity played a part in changing this ( whether as the only heat source or as summer immersion heating to complement water heating by the more common coal-fired back boilers ) . |
| 3 | In presidential and legislative elections held in May 1989 [ see pp. 36651-52 ] Menem defeated Eduardo César Angeloz of the UCR , and the Peronists became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies , although they still lacked an absolute majority . |
| 4 | you still got a stiff neck ? |
| 5 | We still got a big pile to stick in have n't |
| 6 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 7 | She retains a liveliness of mind which is quite extraordinary under the circumstances and she still displays a keen sense of humour and a warmth of contact despite the fact that she has to use a machine . |
| 8 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 9 | But he still conveyed an easy-going personality and had a deceptively casual acting style that differed from Dustin 's volatile nature and the nervous intensity he invested in each role . |
| 10 | Music still plays a large part in his life and one of the great thrills of filming Consenting Adults was the opportunity to jam with Atlanta blues musicians . |
| 11 | We do not have to go quite so far afield to find another language which still plays a considerable part in our daily conversation . |
| 12 | Among many other floatplane types , Beech 18s , Beavers , Otters , Cessnas etc that operate from Red Lake , the Norseman still plays a vital role . |
| 13 | Durkheim 's investigations into religion , with their historic results , were prompted by the fact that he saw religion as the major source of values and , despite increasing secularisation , religion still plays an influential role in society 's moral codes . |
| 14 | The musical tradition of Free Churches originated in the singing of metrical psalms by the whole congregation , and psalm-singing still plays an important part in their worship . |
| 15 | In Central South we 're landlocked but boating still plays an important part in our leisure and local economy … so let's set sail to London to see the show |
| 16 | Wild animals are used for food but at a level at which they can still reproduce a similar surplus a year later . |
| 17 | The large differences show how one can retail one 's own eggs direct to the public at a fairer price and still make a worthwhile profit . |
| 18 | But we could sell it to the wine merchants themselves and still make a handsome profit . ’ |
| 19 | Realising that they could undercut the bids of competitors and still make a fat profit , the Reichmanns turned their company , Olympia & York , towards the property business . |
| 20 | The purchasing chemist can undercut the NHS , and still make an extra profit . |
| 21 | We 'll chose a three-column grid because this is fast to work with while still allowing a good degree of flexibility . |
| 22 | In simple computers there are typically eight such switches , still allowing a large number of possible patterns . |
| 23 | The line still represents a real challenge to footplate crews and one of the major attractions as far as enthusiasts are concerned is to hear the engines working under pressure on the slopes of the Rheidol Valley . |
| 24 | Despite this , the privity doctrine still represents a considerable obstacle as manifested in quasi-sale devices such as finance leasing ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 25 | But this still represents an annualised yield of 12.9 per cent — 4.3 per cent above the average rise in the RPI over this period . |
| 26 | The aim of this is to avoid discouraging new investment , although the 10% share still represents an open-ended liability . |
| 27 | However , when the two letters to be matched were presented simultaneously , rather than successively , the pattern of results differed for the two visual fields in such a way as to suggest that the right hemisphere was still using a visually-based strategy while the left hemisphere was using an acoustically based strategy . |
| 28 | If you are still using a standard radio system and only wish to execute the occasional loop or roll , then you can continue with your existing equipment , but you should realise that you are not going to be able to perform round loops or axial rolls . |
| 29 | Though conservation of our most endangered species of butterflies ( such as large blue , heath fritillary and swallowtail ) is largely in the hands of experts , keen amateurs can still make a valuable contribution to conserving commoner species . |
| 30 | Researchers had the southern sky all to themselves and radioastronomy was not yet a ‘ big science ’ : one could still make an important discovery with simple equipment that one had built oneself . |