Example sentences of "[noun pl] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 2 | His ears still have that ringing that seems to have become part of his headache . |
| 3 | Yet he accompanied their tumbrils without a word , his eyes blank and bloodshot , his fur slicked down , his ears still flattened against his skull . |
| 4 | She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've stopped , ’ she said vaguely , her ears still ringing . |
| 6 | Er on Friday Mike was talking to Rob Rob was at dad 's so Mike was standing talking to them , but my ears still flapped . |
| 7 | If suicide were a way of getting rid of undesirable genetic characteristics , why do strandings still occur ? |
| 8 | Persian rugs still possess an undoubted mystique , and are generally more expensive than those from other countries , but price differentials have been steadily eroding , and they are now generally cheaper in comparison to rugs from other countries than they have been for decades . |
| 9 | First things first : schools still need a speedy mechanism for getting rid of those guilty of gross misconduct , negligence and incompetence . |
| 10 | Many primary schools still go under the title of junior mixed infant , a very curious and old fashioned title . |
| 11 | In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position . |
| 12 | The quality of schools still varies widely . |
| 13 | Many schools still have a remedial department or are visited by peripatetic remedial teachers who withdraw children for extra tuition in reading with little time for consultation with school staff . |
| 14 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 15 | Yet questions remain about those many schools still locked in the traditional relationship of ‘ casual acquaintances ’ or ‘ bureaucrat and claimant ’ discussed earlier . |
| 16 | Many diverse schools still come from Okinawa , but it is generally accepted that the mainstay of much of the karate that is practised in the world today is the original shotokan style , brought from Okinawa to Japan by karate 's modern-day founder and innovator , Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 17 | Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems . |
| 18 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 19 | At this date schools still meant places where masters of repute might be found , but the masters might well move on to other cities taking their pupils with them . |
| 20 | While this was a huge boost to such manufacturers as Acorn and Research Machines , it meant that British schools still found themselves committed to relatively basic , 8-bit technology at a time when the rest of Europe was establishing a base of more powerful 16-bit MS-DOS technology . |
| 21 | Nutritionists and cartographers still draw the so-called ‘ hunger line ’ through Asia and the Americas ; the poorer people who live in those countries that are sandwiched between Mexico and Chile , and between North Korea and New Guinea , exist on diets of fewer than 2,250 calories a day , and thus go to bed each night hungry . |
| 22 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 23 | Value of benefit of company cars still far exceeds tax |
| 24 | Before the Berlinetta Speciale most sports cars still had the engine in the front . |
| 25 | On the other hand , with the first Orbital-engined cars still three years from serial production , it might equally seem premature . |
| 26 | A DRIVER sparked a major alert when he refused to stop for police because he thought patrol cars still used bells . |
| 27 | In due course they were fitted to all the ex-Croydon E/1 type cars , which by this time were the only ex-Croydon cars still in service . |
| 28 | Their cars still compete in historic events . |
| 29 | A last few cars still bleed in from the next town . |
| 30 | It was some way from the lodging , and Paul 's attentions still made walking difficult ; it would not do to arrive dishevelled and swaying , and she had to use some of Mrs Gracie 's money on a cab . |