Example sentences of "still [vb -s] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continued argument about transport development shows how important a part it still plays in the economy of the US . |
| 2 | We therefore argued that given the radical nature of women acting as independent agents , action which still flies in the face of dominant ideologies and which challenges the nature of the family , it is astonishing how much progress women have made in this period . |
| 3 | Done it all and still sits in the chair . |
| 4 | still trembles in the flinching air |
| 5 | Their father , Bernard , a wartime goalkeeper with Brentford , still lives in the cottage . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's dead now , but my mother still lives in the village . |
| 7 | But the severe superego of early childhood still lives in the individual . |
| 8 | I think she still lives in the parish and commutes in . |
| 9 | His mother , Bertha , did a lot of public work , says Mr Hewitt , who was educated at King James Grammar School when the family moved to Bishop Auckland and whose sister , Madge , still lives in the town . |
| 10 | ( The secret of a good presentation still lies in the message you are getting across rather than the props that you use to help you . ) |
| 11 | Its final consummation still lies in the future . |
| 12 | The club mascot , a statue of Our Lady Vulnerata ( the wounded Maradona ? ) was hacked about in 1589 by some ( Lord ) Essex supporters on their way back from Cadiz , but still stands in the chapel , a focus of prayer . |
| 13 | Coaches on the way to Hastings made their last stop for horses at Battle 's George Hotel , where the ostler lived in a tiny cottage which still stands in the yard , to be roused by the bell outside his front door . |
| 14 | The mill building still stands in the shadow of the dam wall , well maintained and now used for storage , its machinery and water wheel removed many years ago . |
| 15 | exactly , so if it still happens in the future we have n't moved full forward have we ? |
| 16 | If , as one can hope , this pottery still exists in the Verulamium Museum , it would provide a useful study of the types in use here at this period and the very quantity might offer the possibility of useful statistical analysis . |
| 17 | Within , the atmosphere is heavily ecclesiastical and Pugin 's soul still hangs in the air , despite some alterations to the internal layout . |
| 18 | Some people leave effects of the dead person around — the hat that still hangs in the hall , the bedroom that is not touched , the area of the house that becomes a kind of ‘ shrine ’ to the memory of the person who is dead . |
| 19 | So still the future of the Mappa Mundi still hangs in the balance . |
| 20 | When overdriven , the LX still delivers in the tone department . |
| 21 | The spirit of 1981 still survives in the Treasury today although political constraints , and the fact that an election can not be too far away , will prevent anything quite as austere as 10 years ago . |
| 22 | The rule of law thus described still prevails in the Probate Court , where it is not enough to prove a relation between testator and beneficiary , which in the court of equity would require the beneficiary to displace the presumption of undue influence by proving independent advice to the testator . |
| 23 | It still appears in the directory as Read Only but I ca n't read it , copy or delete it . |
| 24 | This sense of loyalty still remains in the figure of Sir Bedivere who goes on to ‘ fling Excalibur ’ back to the lake ; a task of great difficulty because of the sword 's ‘ worthy note ’ and ‘ the wonder of its hilt ’ which entranced him . |
| 25 | One of his sons still works in the packing department at the mill — now owned by . |
| 26 | The two police surgeons who so bitterly opposed them and who scarcely emerged from the inquiry untarnished , work on , while Sue Richardson , Cleveland 's child abuse adviser , still works in the county , but with abused adults . |
| 27 | The American ambassador in Bolivia , Charles Bowers , still believes in the wisdom of George Bush 's attack on the supply of cocaine , and insists that Bolivia has won its war on drugs . |