Example sentences of "still [verb] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom . |
| 5 | However , Gwynedd still has the highest percentage of active sports-people , despite a drop of more than 6pc over the past two years . |
| 6 | Even when he was not striking the ball well , he still posed the biggest threat . |
| 7 | Never mind , Mark had still won the biggest prize of all . |
| 8 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 9 | The ferry takes cars and operates only in the summer months but , at busy times when the more popular crossing at Kyle of Lochalsh is subject to lengthy delays , this smaller ferry at Kylerhea may still provide the quickest route to the island . |
| 10 | So I thought as we 've still got the biggest guarantee I would go to it . |
| 11 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 12 | Basing the deprivation payments on the Jarman index still seems the best option , although it is time the Department of Health supported research into its validation . |
| 13 | It can still muster the mightiest fleet in the Known World and its armies are rightly feared by its foes and yet the realm is but a shadow of its former self . |
| 14 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 15 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 16 | But , even after this year 's advances , it would still require the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 to achieve it : the odds remain stacked heavily against it happening . |
| 17 | WE can lay pipe cheaper than we could 15 years ago , I agree , but are we still making the best use of new technology . |
| 18 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |
| 19 | Though I could see that the sun still lit the highest canopy , on the jungle floor it was already too late . |
| 20 | But even under this camouflage of contemporary tat you still had the strongest impression that her limbs were as lovely as her face . |
| 21 | Marxism still remains the best map to post-modern times . |
| 22 | Today , the Common Agricultural Policy still absorbs the largest part of the European Community 's budget . |
| 23 | In such cases the knowledge and experience of the Royal Armaments Research Development Establishment ( RARDE ) at Woolwich still provides the best chemical and physical analysis of suspect material recovered from the wreckage . |
| 24 | Firstly , many sociologists claim that his theory still provides the best explanation of the nature of class in capitalist society . |
| 25 | But mum still knows the best way to a man 's heart , according to a new survey . |
| 26 | At the Hinkley C Inquiry the CEGB was still quoting the lowest cost for wave power electricity as 9.8 p/kWh . |
| 27 | Mr Major and his chancellor , Norman Lamont , still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war . |
| 28 | I 've kept touching you because I still have the greatest difficulty keeping my hands off you , but I was also doing Simon 's trick , attempting to nudge fate along . |
| 29 | His comments were seized by Mr Blair , who said : ‘ In this region , we still have the highest level of unemployment than any other region in the country . ’ |
| 30 | Mainframes still garnered the largest portion — 36.7% — of hardware revenues for the company , which bills itself as the open systems supplier , down from 44.8% last time around . |