Example sentences of "[pron] still [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters . |
| 2 | The Desert Orchid fan club boasts 1700 members … and its still growing . |
| 3 | For over 300 hungry traders at the American Investment Bank , lunch is now delivered to their desks and its still piping hot ! |
| 4 | BT had higher profits than either , presumably reflecting its still de facto monopoly situation . |
| 5 | I do n't know if I 'm going to , lets see what else is on , Jagged Edge is on I might watch that instead , oh god its still time , I could , yes I think I could just about give that a wide enough berth |
| 6 | Because of the presence of all these links , there is order in such a system , even though it is a type of ‘ society which still 'has ' no state ’ [ p. 188 ] and no classes . |
| 7 | It had been cut into four equal portions , two of which still bore the indentations of her fingers . |
| 8 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 9 | We passed under an arch of branches which still bore a few autumn leaves and stopped as one man , but the corporal was waving us on . |
| 10 | The living-room was long and low with roof-beams which still bore marks of the adze ; the fireplace , built of rough-hewn stone , was phoney but acceptable and the walls were white . |
| 11 | Of the hedgerow shrubs which still hold fruits , the hips of the various species of rose may well be the most obvious , often being among the last fruits to be eaten by hungry wintering thrushes . |
| 12 | These conditions are best met in low-lying areas that were once marshland , and which still lie above a plentiful water table . |
| 13 | It is only the more durable , including some which still feature as objects of conspicuous consumption in the most sophisticated societies of today , that survive in the archaeological record . |
| 14 | It is fairly obvious to say there are two classes of buildings to be studied — those which still stand , and those which have been destroyed , fallen down , or otherwise disappeared . |
| 15 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 16 | At Gondar , Fasiladas built the first of the remarkable stone palaces which still stand today . |
| 17 | This is especially true in relation to hostility in groups and between groups , the conflicts between individuals and their society and the burden of man 's past social actions , transmitted through religions , which still affect societies ' development . |
| 18 | The record , many copies of which still turn up among the ditches and hedgerows at the leafier end of Whaddon , portrayed a hope and optimism belied by bailiffs at the turnstiles , and its hummability led players and supporters to see the coming season and decade as the dawning of a new age . |
| 19 | The first stage of the project would , however , be to install security systems and adequate lighting in churches which still lack such equipment . |
| 20 | In terms of validation , therefore , the only area of uncertainty concerns the foundation courses which still lack a national validating body . |
| 21 | " Then you had better start exploring the coast for the villages which still build , own and crew these prahus . |
| 22 | As well as the series of long-distance trains which still run through Birmingham , the sub-sector now includes those few trains from the North West to Dover which run through Kensington Olympia in London , and the service between Manchester and Scotland via Preston and the West Coast main line . |
| 23 | These graves were built to house the remains of important members of the tribe , and one of the most notable lies close to Mrs Mackay 's old home at Skail : a polygonal chamber , with several stone slabs which still hint at the original character of this round cairn . |
| 24 | Nummulites are a giant kind of foraminiferan , an important group of rock-forming organisms as far back as the Carboniferous ( and with ancestors in Cambrian rocks ) , and which still form deep sea oozes today . |
| 25 | That 's quite an accolade coming from an instructor who has 500 hours of P-40 time in seven of the eighteen P-40s worldwide which still fly . |
| 26 | Climbing sports originate for the most part from bush types ‘ sporting ’ extra long canes which still bear the same flowers as the parent . |
| 27 | Men such as Roger de Leyburne ( see plate 3.1 ) , the Kentish knight , or John of Hastings ( from Sussex ) , gave their names to new settlements in Aquitaine ( Libourne and Hastingues ) but never themselves settled in the bastides which still bear their names . |
| 28 | It is common today to hear complaints from established institutions , which still claim some dominance ( now more usually called ‘ responsibility ’ ) in general social and cultural reproduction , against the character of market-dominant cultural production , usually specified as ‘ sex-and-violence ’ . |
| 29 | The group wants to try to open an inquiry in the House of Lords , have a full parliamentary debate , and gather evidence from other European countries which still use benomyl . |
| 30 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |