Example sentences of "still [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I say that we 'd be willing perhaps that the Conservative amendment first of all , and then to turn to the amendment by the Liberal democrats erm I would like to suggest that schools or other charities , not just schools are exempt from any registration charge but will still notify the local authority in , in advance of an event , because events held at schools or by charities still create problems with traffic and parking and congestion |
| 2 | It was a shock , but while there were those who still lacked the Christian faith , it was a necessary shock . |
| 3 | still got the real interest there |
| 4 | While such intervention is not without a moral hazard problem , it may still remain the best solution for those seeking income insurance ; in other words the government can handle the moral hazard problem better than the market can . |
| 5 | Galleries should be avoided , to get away from the idea of a theatre with an audience watching an actor but the pulpit must still remain the central feature . |
| 6 | who still taste the holy ghost in rain , or |
| 7 | While other road going sports tend towards high-visibility clothing , riders still favour the natural country colours . |
| 8 | Evangelicals and others in the mid-nineteenth century still placed the central responsibility for the upbringing of children upon the family . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More nobly ornamented and furnished then the castles they replaced , these houses still shared the abysmal sanitation of the latter , with poor privies and rush-strewn floors . |
| 11 | The extraction process for cocoa powder was invented by a Dutchman , van Houten , in the late 1820s , and his family firm still produces the best cocoa powder ( see p79 ) , which has a very rich and rounded flavour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The S-class arrives in the UK in September , at prices that reflect the increased equipment levels but still make the departing model look positively reasonable . |
| 15 | This match had all the ingredients which still make the British game the most exciting to watch in the world — speed , commitment and flair . |
| 16 | Mr Gorbachev still thinks the old system can be reformed . |
| 17 | ‘ My sister ! ’ he stated flatly , watching her , still allowing the rough grip on his hair . |
| 18 | The major theoretical problems which arise from explanations of language development as a process of learning verbal behaviours were first presented by Chomsky ( 1959 ) and , in many respects , this still represents the best critique of Skinner 's position . |
| 19 | According the CAA 's General Aviation Safety Information Leaflet some pilots are also still using the archaic QSY , for ‘ am changing frequency to … |
| 20 | Thus we are still using the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection , but the entities to which we are applying it are populations , or species , and not individuals as in most applications of the idea . |
| 21 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'm still using the standard setup : five strings on the treble , five strings on the bass and a range of five and a quarter octaves . |
| 23 | ‘ He must still want the whole thing stopped . ’ |
| 24 | Such surveys formed the basis for research for many years and still remain the principal source for some categories of data . |
| 25 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 26 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |
| 27 | It was no more , yet the statue of Dr Joseph Parker , one of its best known preachers , was still defying the opposing rage . |
| 28 | Leafing through bound volumes of those old editions in Beirut , Abu Khadra could still experience the odd moment of journalistic triumph as old newspapermen tend to do , long after their papers have died . |
| 29 | and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for |
| 30 | I , for one , would still prefer the mocking irony of ‘ The National Front Disco ’ and ‘ We 'll Let You Know ’ to the finger-pointing sloganeering of a ‘ Margaret On A Guillotine ’ or ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ . |