Example sentences of "it still [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a compromise , it still contained substantial revisions . |
| 2 | Although partly looted , it still contained nine skeletons and numerous previously unknown examples of painted cloth carefully pasted over gilded sheet metal up to 2.5 x 1.5 m in size . |
| 3 | Like most deserted villages Great Stretton was always on the small side , but in 1563 it still contained fifteen families . |
| 4 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 5 | It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) . |
| 6 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 7 | It still attracted considerable interest and made $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 8 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 9 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 10 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 11 | The Imperial Airways ground staff at Karachi assisted with the repair of the Croydon , but without the facilities available in England it still took several weeks . |
| 12 | Stockport Health Authority said yesterday it still rejected all Mr Pink 's claims about conditions in the wards and was pulling out to save money . |
| 13 | Authority chairman Tony Russell said it still rejected all Mr Pink 's claims about conditions in the wards . |
| 14 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 15 | Milton and Pooley had had this ritual described fully to them , graphically and with actions , but it still held great fascination . |
| 16 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 17 | It still retained such jurisdiction , and received some increase and confirmation of it , in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |