Example sentences of "it still [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This service averages over five hundred separate insertions per month , and while in the strictest sense of the term you do pay for it via the call charge , it still represents amazing value for money . |
| 2 | It still celebrates central Government control . |
| 3 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 4 | Yeah , but even with all those things in their favour it still takes fifteen months ? |
| 5 | It still encompasses those things too , but the fusions of music and word and gesture that new opera can sustain are both rich and mysterious , and , significantly , capable of attracting an audience that would find the old-fashioned operatic conventions quite outside its frame of reference . |
| 6 | Hamleys , the country 's largest toy shop , claims it still sells more Concordes than Tornados . |
| 7 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 8 | Although it is at a disadvantage to the very deep water berths at Tilbury , Hull and Southampton , which can berth vessels of 25–30,000 tonnes , it still handles similar tonnages ! |
| 9 | But even when unanimity is the genuine product of a free decision on the part of all , it still poses some problems . |
| 10 | Despite some later rebuilding it still possesses much work from the oldest stave church in Norway . |
| 11 | Not only has the Labour party not realised that GCSE results at 16 in Labour-controlled authorities are some of the worst , but it has learnt nothing — it still opposes standardised testing from the age of seven . |
| 12 | Although John Stork International became , to all intents and purposes , a pure search business , this was not always the case , and it still maintains other interests , including two management assessment firms , who employ several psychologists . |
| 13 | It still preaches old-fashioned family values , rather than rolling up its sleeves and doing something to help the single-parent families and the thousands of homeless who exist on Britain 's streets . |
| 14 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 15 | With a suitable model it still requires considerable practice , however , to produce something recognisable . |
| 16 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 17 | During 1991 and after 10 years of negotiations , the START treaty was signed , and in itself it is indeed only a start as it still leaves enormous stockpiles of delivery systems and nuclear warheads , enough to reduce most of our planet to a radioactive cinder heap . |
| 18 | The Soviet Union is reluctant to cut back on its oil supplies to Romania , since it still needs Romanian meat and consumer goods more than Ceausescu needs Soviet imports . |
| 19 | So even if farmers have the equipment and knowledge to use slurry safely as a fertiliser , it still needs added nitrates . |
| 20 | The insurance fund has since doubled its reserves through a levy on its other members , but fears that it still has insufficient funds to cover its potential obligations . |
| 21 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 22 | Even if the Soviet Union is no longer able to give orders , it still has great influence , and Mr Shevardnadze is believed to have used this in calls to Prague , Warsaw and East Berlin . |
| 23 | But somehow , it still has that touch of glamour . |
| 24 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
| 25 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 26 | BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals . |
| 27 | The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ . |
| 28 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
| 29 | The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside . |
| 30 | It still has these spots , although they have n't got any worse and the other fish have not been affected . |