Example sentences of "[noun sg] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 2 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 3 | ‘ If you thought I was going to stay there once I was old enough to leave , with my stepdad still there — always going on at me , touching me , pawing me , trying it on — What do you expect ? ’ |
| 4 | Actions under the Act differ from those at common law in that the consumer does not have to prove fault , but causation still needs to be established and the burden of proof is on the consumer . |
| 5 | Today , this dramatic loch still produces superb trout of unequalled quality ; and sea-trout , fresh from the tide that races through the outlet at Bridge of Waithie into Bay of Ireland and Hoy Sound . |
| 6 | A similar species used to inhabit Loch na Moal Choire , long since fished out , but the loch still provides sport with native wild brown trout . |
| 7 | King Coilus and his Britons were camped near the River Doon , not far from the shores of the little loch still called Loch Fergus . |
| 8 | Tiller writing the storyline still whisked his audience round the world but the comedy element was more dominant . |
| 9 | That had less effect still . |
| 10 | Notice also how he is sheeting in the sail since even at this speed the apparent wind effect still plays a part in the turn . |
| 11 | On the other hand the structural analysis of the language only tells part of the story ; the question how structural features contribute to the text 's overall effect still remains to be answered by the critic . |
| 12 | The government remains fearful of a recurrence of the overheating and inflation of late 1988 , which led to an austerity programme still notionally in force . |
| 13 | In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be . |
| 14 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 15 | However the Soil Association still remains the pioneering group which will continue actively to promote the benefits of organic farming to the unconverted . |
| 16 | Already appreciative of the association 's practice of encouraging , where appropriate , joint funding and partnership in the support of all South East Arts clients , the association still needs to secure the full membership of all local authorities in the South East area and develop a clear , joint strategy on the development of the arts for each of the three county areas . |
| 17 | However , I hear that the Irish Veterinary Association still supports firing and some racehorse trainers are threatening to send horses over to Ireland for treatment . |
| 18 | A turbine still survives . |
| 19 | And despite being so cool , DJ still has a fiery temper and can summon up a useful blast of flame breath at any time . |
| 20 | That is far short of a majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha , but with the opposition still technically divided into half a dozen factions , it would make Congress the biggest single party , and President Venkataraman would have to turn to it . |
| 21 | ( a ) Beer Small resort , joined on to larger Seaton , with fishing still important . |
| 22 | The talk still maintains that the two are trying to get better terms and conditions from Sun . |
| 23 | Even when compared with the 1983 landslide victory , the Conservative share of the vote increased in the South East ( including Greater London ) , East Anglia , West Midlands and East Midlands , and registered only a marginal decline in the South West ( albeit with a share of the vote still in excess of 50 per cent ) . |
| 24 | The dominant beliefs of the catholic — nationalist bloc still are that the group forms a people who are Gaelic-Irish , constitute a nation , are republican , and populate an island which has a natural , inner political unity . |
| 25 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 26 | Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary ? |
| 27 | One point which cries out for consideration is this : do the Christian doctrines which Hegel has transposed into his own metaphysical key still mean the same ? |
| 28 | Granddad still around ? |
| 29 | Is your granddad still alive ? |
| 30 | However , with Vendelin Gajdusek out of town and that interview still hanging over her head , a missed trip to the third spa town of the triangle , she inwardly sighed , was the least of her worries ! |