Example sentences of "still [vb base] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who still taste the holy ghost in rain , or |
| 2 | While other road going sports tend towards high-visibility clothing , riders still favour the natural country colours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This match had all the ingredients which still make the British game the most exciting to watch in the world — speed , commitment and flair . |
| 5 | Such surveys formed the basis for research for many years and still remain the principal source for some categories of data . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | For those of you who still want the real thing on the day there are a number of champagnes available for under £10 . |
| 8 | Even with agreement on the form of the scale and grade boundaries in the coarser ranges different authors still place the silt-clay boundary variously at 2 µm ( Briggs , 1977 ; Friedman & sanders , 1978 ) , which is a size commonly used by soil scientists , or at 4 µm , as in the original Udden-Wentworth system ( Tanner , 1969 ; Pettijohn , 1975 ) as is more normal amongst geological sedimentologists . |
| 9 | Is it possible to change school science in this fashion and still preserve the essential character of science itself ? |
| 10 | of the defence budget and that no other known system could be so cost effective but still provide the same degree of security ? |
| 11 | Opposition Back-Bench Members have been questioning my right hon. and hon. Friends and myself on the basis that we shall be here for a long time , whereas Front-Bench spokesmen still nurse the occasional illusion . |
| 12 | ‘ Now you leave Yugoslavia and still expect the Yugoslav Army to protect you . ’ |
| 13 | And still howe'er the mournful Tale began , |
| 14 | They still mock the slow way he speaks . |
| 15 | Police still hope the unusual rescue and surrounding publicity may bring the child 's mother forward . |
| 16 | There is a further division when one includes Northern Ireland , where the community is divided along mutually exclusive lines ( see Chapter 9 ) : a few families in the province still speak the Irish form of Gaelic . |
| 17 | ‘ But if they still show the same thing we are all going to have to respond to it . |
| 18 | If you run in still air the apparent wind you feel blows in your face . |
| 19 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 20 | Thirty years later my volunteering instinct has come through intact but I still mistrust the American Air Force . |
| 21 | Despite the introduction of phosphorescent strips which show up under ultra-violet light , and a security shield on the new 10 pound stamp , counterfeits still cost the postal service millions of pounds a year . |
| 22 | It 's for that reason that I still support the original line which was to merge the centres with a common management structure headed by a single head of the project . |
| 23 | We still charge the same interest rate that the bank would do because of course it 's costing us that from from the bank on our own funds . |
| 24 | Even grains which are badly weathered or altered still register the typical emission . |
| 25 | That was where I met and still meet the only person I 'd call a friend ; Jamie the dwarf , whom I let sit on my shoulders so he can see the bands . |
| 26 | But millions of battered Britons still face the grim prospect of dearer home loans , more house repossessions , longer dole queues and firm after firm going to the wall . |
| 27 | Some Americans still recall the terrible fire at the Triangle shirt factory in New York in 1911 that killed 145 people . |
| 28 | Since much of the computation time is used to establish that the solution is optimal , premature termination of the procedure can often save time and yet still give the optimal solution , although its optimality can not be guaranteed . |
| 29 | The figures on the west still wear the archaic smile . |
| 30 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |