Example sentences of "still [verb] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 7 June 1786 the society noted that it still lacked information on which to base any specific resolution for the encouragement of scientific farriery and the matter was put aside . |
| 2 | yeah no its twenty five to ten though , still got Poirot on the other side |
| 3 | The hotel still records bookings on a traditional conventional chart and continues to prepare guests ' bills by hand . |
| 4 | As Peter Vogtlander , chemicals coordinator for the Royal Dutch/Shell group , said at the ECMRA meeting in September , ‘ to introduce , say a carbon tax while still maintaining subsidies on some fuels , such as coal , is plainly inconsistent ’ . |
| 5 | He still has Jesus on his hands the position is the same for every non-christian , for every unconverted person you still have Jesus on your hand you ca n't get rid of him that easily . |
| 6 | But Abraham still has God on his side , and the Pharaoh lets him go , and Sarah with him . |
| 7 | This is only a marginal improvement , for even if a government stooge is avoided , the separate agency chairmen and members may still win control on important issues . |
| 8 | Early editions of the Ordnance Survey still show mills on a number of the old monastic sites , as well as a number in and around Upton St Leonards itself . |
| 9 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 10 | But Miss Huntley would still inherit £200,000 on Miss Morgan 's death , whenever that happened . ’ |
| 11 | They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . |
| 12 | Yes , because you know , erm , we still save money on labour costs , erm , but there again when you get , when people do go sick , it 's er , it 's quite detrimental , so everyone 's having to work even harder . |
| 13 | Schools offering special education for visually handicapped pupils have in many cases a residential base but still accept pupils on a daily basis when this is practicable . |
| 14 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 15 | ( NCET 1974 : 13 ) The American version still concentrates attention on the agent of instruction , whereas the British definition lays stress on what is to happen as a result — human learning . |
| 16 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 17 | But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern . |
| 18 | The Crown Prosecution Service is still considering reports on 5 others . |
| 19 | Even if BT gets over the hurdle of proving it does not need a licence , it will still face restrictions on the types of service it can offer . |
| 20 | He still attends Mass on Sunday although he must be , to some of the more conventional believers kneeling beside him , what Philip Roth is to orthodox Jews . |
| 21 | However , if the clause contains two or more restrictions , the court may hold one unreasonable but still allow reliance on the other , provided that the two are severable . |
| 22 | And however well endowed he was with these qualities , he might still have difficulty on some points . |
| 23 | but then , providing we go on the Tuesdays you can still go German on the Mondays , anyway could n't you ? |
| 24 | Strange to recall , we were still thinking in terms of East bloc tank armies and fighter squadrons , still counting divisions on the map of central Europe , and still , some of us , acting as if the USSR remained a dangerous antagonist . |
| 25 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 26 | Keating , who came to symbolise the fraud and corruption that lay behind the collapse of hundreds of savings and loan institutions , which are comparable to British building societies , is still awaiting trial on more serious fraud and racketeering charges . |
| 27 | England are still awaiting news on another back-row man with shoulder problems — Leicester 's No. 8 , Dean Richards , who will not be making this weekend 's away day to Orrell , whose coach , Des Seabrook , is in hospital recovering from a mild heart attack . |
| 28 | I mean well , not a reasonable mar he 's still making money on the drinks |
| 29 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 30 | I 'm still playing tricks on the rest of the band by shouting out a number on stage that we have n't rehearsed ! ’ |