Example sentences of "it still [verb] [adj] " 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 | It still contained some of the stolen antiques , but the robbers got away with the rest over £20,000 worth of goods . |
| 5 | Well it 's just it gets dark a bi it still gets dark early and when we 've got the children , I mean |
| 6 | Where domiciliary care is thought to be impracticable , however , it still remains unclear who is going to pay for ‘ institutional ’ care . |
| 7 | It is postulated that cytokines may affect colonic inflammation , but it still remains unclear how they contribute to the exacerbation of the inflammation . |
| 8 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 9 | The latter survived the bombings of World War II better than it survived the ravages of time after Leonardo 's highly original method of fresco working failed to live up to its inventor 's hopes , but it still remains one of the masterpieces of Renaissance art . |
| 10 | For all the ingenuity that has been exercised in studying remaining ships and portrayals of ships in the light of expert modern knowledge — in the building and sailing of replicas and all manner of ingenious devices — it still remains true that we are tempted to judge early medieval navigation mainly from a handful of second-hand boats ready for retirement , which were thus thought suitable for burial . |
| 11 | It still remains true that one needs to be very strong-minded to continue without at least some encouragement from other people . |
| 12 | It might be objected that even though some criminal laws are in the interests of the dominant class and that others which are obviously not in these interests are ineffectively enforced , thus making them dead-letter laws , it still remains true that laws proscribing those types of victimizing behaviours of which we are all too aware and which set the nerve-ends of neo-classical/conservative criminologists , such as Wilson ( 1975 ) and Morgan ( 1978 ) tingling with fear and loathing , are in all our interests . |
| 13 | It still remains true , however , that when compared with the white population , black people have worse housing conditions . |
| 14 | This relaxation of attitude has led to a significant increase in the annual amount paid out of the fund to the successful unassisted parties , but it still remains perilous to be sued by an assisted person . |
| 15 | Despite the above , it still remains valid that the importance of the covariances between the returns of securities is the mot effective method of reducing risk where the number of shares in a portfolio is necessarily limited . |
| 16 | It still remains difficult to explain the Gingin Chalk of faraway Australia , though one might guess that this is part of the same phenomenon that produced the almost world-wide " Cenomanian transgression " . |
| 17 | But it still remains significant that some of the pathetic figures are to be found on funerary urns . |
| 18 | Of course , that side of it still existed unchanged . |
| 19 | In language which retained the authentic ring of Robert Owen , it still sought far-reaching social and political change , ‘ a different order of things , in which the really useful and intelligent part of society only shall have the direction of its affairs ; in which industry and virtue shall meet their just distinction and reward , and vicious idleness its merited contempt and destruction . ’ |
| 20 | With its Georgian frontage and those imposing pillars holding up the front porch , it still looked impressive . |
| 21 | It still looked easy but the slow progress of the parties ahead showed it was not . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It still celebrates central Government control . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yeah , but even with all those things in their favour it still takes fifteen months ? |
| 26 | It still takes fifteen to eighteen months to deliver to pass |
| 27 | Now a different problem , erm it still takes forty eight man hours , but this time how many men to do the job in two hours ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | It still had many of the characteristics of a lounge — cluttered bookshelves took up one wall of the room . |