Example sentences of "the [noun sg] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do want their time off : even though 58% of accountants are entitled to over 25 days ' holiday , the majority still felt they deserved more . |
| 2 | The craftsmen , however , were more evenly divided , even at the high point of Tory fortunes in the City , with the majority still favouring the Whigs . |
| 3 | For in both action and control samples the majority still stated , one year later , that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home : only one in the action sample , and two in the control sample stating a clear preference for institutional care . |
| 4 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 5 | The weakness still lived in his body but his urge to draw was reviving , he could feel it . |
| 6 | Some of the outbuildings are used for staff accommodation , while the remainder still serve their original functions of lodge , garages , kennels , stables , gardeners ' stores , potting shed , greenhouses , etc . |
| 7 | Rebecque , sensing that the Prince still intended to dance despite the news of a French invasion , cleared his throat . |
| 8 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 9 | Here the new road over to Glen Garry , continuing the A.87 classification , turns to the right , the signpost still urging a visit to Fort William . |
| 10 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 11 | Its arm fell off , clattering to the deck with the Perk still clinging to it . |
| 12 | ‘ The technique still needs to be evaluated , but I think it has a positive feature because it has potentially fewer complications . ’ |
| 13 | Babies and boredom , boredom and babies : when the whisky ran out , we made up our faces , exchanged clothes , did our hair , and the afternoon still yawned ahead . |
| 14 | Whether or not the briefcase still contained whatever Horfitz had given Filmer at Nottingham was anyone 's guess , and dearly though I would have liked to look at the contents , I did n't want to risk any more at that point . |
| 15 | Yes , the money still finds its way out to pay for the cloth . ’ |
| 16 | The Canadian still spoke quietly and with a sort of urgency . |
| 17 | Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar . |
| 18 | BUT even in 1963 the brewery still had 25 heavy horses delivering beer in London . |
| 19 | It followed therefore that at the time of the accident the brewery still owed him a duty of care under s. 2 OLA 1957 . |
| 20 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 21 | Next to the peristyle still stands the Emperor 's Mausoleum , preserved by its transformation into the Cathedral in the early Middle Ages . |
| 22 | In this way the boys in the field still get a crack at the business . |
| 23 | Oh , the computer still worked ! |
| 24 | But if the pairing still seems unlikely , bear in mind that both are extrovert , larger than life and indefatigably self-confident , with two of the hardest-working mouths in the media . |
| 25 | Once a child is maturationally ready to toilet train the process usually only takes one or two weeks , but the teaching still has to come from the mother and she may be very uncertain about when to do it . |
| 26 | But the chairman still has to meet star centre Graeme Hallas , who is on the transfer list at £180,000 and talking to three other clubs . |
| 27 | The scena still shows the three rows of square holes made to take the wood plank fittings when the moveable stage was in use . |
| 28 | The decision still has to be ratified by the Finance and Management Services Committee . |
| 29 | The decision still has to be ratified by the Finance and Management Services Committee . |
| 30 | The buyer still did not pay . |