Example sentences of "still [vb base] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But we could sell it to the wine merchants themselves and still make a handsome profit . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But there still remain a great deal of summer Sundays in which the massive latent cricket audience can be satisfied . |
| 5 | I still remain a wee bit puzzled as to why we do n't try to recruit more than one member in any one large organisation , eg the exclusion of Scottish Power people simply because we have a [ Stewart ] member already . |
| 6 | As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group . |
| 7 | Pests and diseases have had innumerable volumes devoted to them , and still remain a never-ending source of trouble and worry . |
| 8 | However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked . |
| 9 | Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined . |
| 10 | Translation technologies are important , however , because other solutions still lack a common development environment and should be able to get to multiple platforms from a single code base . |
| 11 | Translation technologies are important , however , because other options still lack a common development environment and should be able to get to multiple systems from a single code base . |
| 12 | Hughes and company ended last season on a high by winning in both Lithuania and Latvia and although the World Cup finals are now beyond them , they still want a strong finish over the last few games . |
| 13 | A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services . |
| 14 | This gives an advantage over conventional 100Hz ripple-smoothing filters used in linear power systems in that the values of both L and C can be relatively small but still provide a high a.c. ripple reduction . |
| 15 | In these areas the polymer segments were assumed to possess a Gaussian distribution about the centre of mass , but even with this distribution the chain segments still occupy a finite volume from which all other chain segments are excluded . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet you still receive a clear impression of your surroundings , and can recognise any objects in your field of view . |
| 18 | Competition amongst producers of commercial PC software has made it difficult for shareware authors to significantly undercut them and still charge a worthwhile amount for their products . |
| 19 | He should stop f—ing around with these crummy songs , write some real ballads , have his knowing smirk surgically removed and piss off to Vegas where they still appreciate a good singer and are willing to pay . |
| 20 | Menzieshill still enjoy a three-point advantage with two games to play , but there is now no margin for error as they meet their main contenders , Kelburne , in a final game tomorrow night at the McTaggart Centre . |
| 21 | Although I 'm half time , I still run a full section … |
| 22 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 23 | The ads will , however , still adopt a humorous approach , he says , suggesting new meals for which the pickles can provide an accompaniment . |
| 24 | Despite TV , most people still read a daily newspaper . |
| 25 | He hit 87 as Essex made 188-6 from 52 overs in their rain-hit match , but they still face a major battle today . |
| 26 | Although homosexuality is no longer against the law , homosexuals still face a good deal of criticism and stigma . |
| 27 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 28 | She did n't really know if she was going to be able to take any more , and still give a worthwhile performance . |
| 29 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 30 | The criticisms outlined above have not been completely ignored by the planners , since , although the new structure plans still exhibit a keen adherence to key settlement policies ( National Council of Social Service 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1981 ) , alternative settlement policies have also been considered . |