Example sentences of "still [verb] a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In simple computers there are typically eight such switches , still allowing a large number of possible patterns . |
| 3 | First , that any attempt to implement a Marxist economic programme even on a relatively modest scale in a country which still has a large degree of freedom is doomed to catastrophe . |
| 4 | Society still needs a large number of its adult citizens to give caring for others a higher priority than a conventional career . |
| 5 | Its practical effect was not very great ; but it began an attack on what radicals later came to call the ‘ old corruption ’ , the network of sinecures and jobbery which still played a large role in British political life . |
| 6 | The architectures for parallel computers still cover a large range , and these two machines represent two disparate approaches — using a small number of quite powerful processors , or a large number of weaker processors . |
| 7 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 8 | The shag population of the Shetlands was hit hard by the Braer oil disaster in January [ see EDs 67 et seq ] ; numbers around Sumburgh Head fell by half , but the shags still raised a large number of chicks . |
| 9 | Each state still retained a large measure of protectionism against the others , and complete free trade still remained as far away as ever . |
| 10 | He was so absorbed in the rivalry between Egypt and Syria that he attributed comparatively little importance to the fact that the Seleucid monarchy still had a large interest in the Iranian plateau ( see , however , 8.5 ) . |
| 11 | Although there is much current research effort directed toward standardising the design of dictionaries , there still remains a large degree of variability in the format and content of each . |
| 12 | None of us is starving , however , and we all have more than enough clothes to wear , but we still spend a large part of our lives worrying about our material needs — what should we eat ? |
| 13 | This still leaves a large proportion of the variation unexplained . |
| 14 | But this evidence still leaves a large gap to be filled between the early fifth century and St Cuthbert 's visit . |
| 15 | Now I still have a large family composed of the family I was born into ( some of it ) and also of a family of friends , sisters , brothers , mothers and children that I have chosen . |