Example sentences of "still [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some councils therefore still insist on every committee decision being referred to the full council for confirmation or rejection . |
| 2 | So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned . |
| 3 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 largely prevent these abuses , but it is true that , in so far as those Acts allow them to , finance companies still insist on the terms being as beneficial to themselves as possible . |
| 4 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 5 | Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too ! |
| 6 | If you 're not really overweight but still suffer with a little sponginess and skin slackening , try Clarins Firming Body Cream , £20.40/200ml , with stimulating rosemary , sage and mint extracts . |
| 7 | The company 's overwhelmingly American board of directors and senior management still suffer from a not-invented-here arrogance . |
| 8 | ‘ There may be high unemployment in this area , but we still suffer from a skills shortage , ’ says John Coltman , personnel director of Royal Mail Letters , a leading sponsor of the Newcastle compact . |
| 9 | But the Dutchman is smart enough to know that even though the practice session at the stadium went well , his strike-force still suffer from the age-old Irish problem . |
| 10 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 11 | Major concerns still remain for the IBOA regarding the Replacement of Staff , Promotional Opportunities , Branch Staffing and the implications for the Branch Network as a whole . |
| 12 | It simply has n't been demonstrated that any cognizance has been made of R P G two , therefore that these concerns still remain on the table . |
| 13 | I still remain of the view that that would be undesirable . |
| 14 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |
| 15 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 16 | Scottish & Newcastle ( McEwans and Youngers beers , Newcastle Brown ) have a relatively low holding of tied public houses ( which are mainly in Scotland and the North East ) , but still account for a significant proportion of total beer sales , partly through sales to free houses and partly through the strong position of their brands in the off-licence trade . |
| 17 | In the present generations of younger women , very few never marry so this particular source of family care has almost dried up , although there is evidence that never-married women still account for a disproportionate number of unpaid carers ( Finch and Groves , 1980 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Even though full-time workers still account for the majority of service sector jobs , the growth of part-time jobs does raise a number of questions about what type of ‘ service-based ’ economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 19 | Though its industry is behind , Britain 's researchers still rank among the world 's best in the science that underpins biotechnology . |
| 20 | The problem that the Tories have with this is that they still appear on the unemployment figures . |
| 21 | We can then use unc to transform it to something of the form unc The unc that no longer appear as input variables among the unc still appear in the declaration and in |
| 22 | The module names still appear in the module relations table and are still visible to users querying the LIFESPAN RDBI database . |
| 23 | After an hour or so the Carpettes still linger in the parking lot as the coach doors slam shut . |
| 24 | We do n't have to talk literature , y'know — I 'd as leave hear news of America , parts of which still linger in the Carboniferous Age , I understand . ’ |
| 25 | But every year we still head for the beaches and strip off , hoping to turn that white skin a lovely golden bronze . |
| 26 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 27 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 28 | Some have been able to introduce charges for particular tourist attractions , but a large number still depend on the good will of visitors , too many of whom studiously ignore the collection box . |
| 29 | It attracted people of similar views and backgrounds and it 's no surprise — or should n't be — that such people still mix in the same circles now . |
| 30 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |