Example sentences of "still [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Gorbachev still thinks the old system can be reformed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is likely that Li Peng , the prime minister , still tastes the personal gall of 1m people in Hong Kong taking to the streets after Tiananmen to call for his ejection from office . |
| 8 | Even once the bike is on its side , the rider still fingers the front brake lever , scrubbing off excess speed as the disc pads gently bite on the decelerating rotors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , Gwynedd still has the highest percentage of active sports-people , despite a drop of more than 6pc over the past two years . |
| 11 | Tom Berman , now in Israel , still has the first letter his mother wrote from Czechoslovakia to the Millers in Glasgow on 14 June 1939 . |
| 12 | Statistics also reflect a rise in accidents among children aged up to 16 , and Darlington still has the higher share of accidents involving 17 year olds and over . |
| 13 | Mrs Marcos may believe that America still has the final say in Philippine affairs ; after all , America persuaded her husband to call the election that led to his downfall in 1986 . |
| 14 | ‘ I think she still has the odd nightmare . |
| 15 | Crawford still has the original score of The Little Sweep , complete with the composer 's own notation . |
| 16 | He still has the bloodstained fragment of sleeve showing where the bullet went through his arm . |
| 17 | Brand A has been carefully put together to ensure that the slimmer enjoys a wide range of textures and flavours and still has the psychological satisfaction of preparing the food he or she eats . |
| 18 | Remember that the new fraction still has the same value . |
| 19 | Islam is also the most recent as it only began in 612 A.D. Even though this religion is different from others it still has the common belief in good that all religions have . |
| 20 | The house still has the romantic character of a Victorian historical novel — its chimneypiece is still painted with curious devices , and there are panelled rooms and hiding places , including the ‘ sacred hole ’ in the attic where Charles is said to have spent the night . |
| 21 | And it is not masculine , because whatever male teachers and guides a woman has , she still needs the inspirational feminine which resonates with her own being . |
| 22 | Despite the government 's arbitrary confiscation of high denomination notes in January , the outstanding stock of cash still dwarfs the annual value of retail sails . |
| 23 | The façade is Lombard Romanesque style , probably built in the thirteenth-century , and still contains the old doorway . |
| 24 | However , in his version we are ‘ normally ’ conditioned out of this ; his theory still contains the positivist assumption that criminals are different from non-criminals ( and ‘ pathological ’ ) — in this case through their abnormal resistance to the conditioning process . |
| 25 | Winner of the Eclipse Stakes when ridden by Michael Kinane and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes , Opera House is heading for the ‘ Horse of the Year ’ award and although the going may be softer than he would like tomorrow he still looks the obvious choice . |
| 26 | Whereas in Kant 's theory , in a sense , there still lingers the common sense conception of space and time as some kind of backcloth against which the positions of phenomenal objects can be uniquely charted and distinguished from each other , Leibniz regarded space and time as properties of entities . |
| 27 | Old Spice still heads the mass fragrance market , ahead of Insignia and Mandate . |
| 28 | So the camera 's view is steadily narrowing and the smaller screen image still fills the whole frame size of the camera filmstock . |
| 29 | It is worse than inadequate because , unlike the inadequate shape shown earlier , which still allows the remaining space to be filled , this one blocks the space . |
| 30 | A further question is whether or not a less costly form of regulation could be devised that still allows the same degree of competition in the markets with the same level of investor protection . |