Example sentences of "they still " in BNC.

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1 Even though some of the most dangerous and persistent toxins , including polychlorinated biphenyls , PCBs , are no longer manufactured , quantities of them still exist , and must be got rid of .
2 Our ties with them still matter , though they have been weakened by Australasia 's dependence on the United States for security and by our entry into the EEC .
3 French banks had always had broad powers , but a new banking act in 1984 broadened them still further .
4 She seemed to have managed to collar a whole plate of them still on their sticks .
5 Since Mr Kinnock will keep them in the ERM and impoverish them still further , they will get no joy of him .
6 The nightmare vision is : down to three or four , with one of them still held by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn — try staffing the Scottish Office with that .
7 Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying .
8 ‘ And Zadkine referred to Modigliani 's unfinished heads , outside in the mud , most of them still in a rough stage .
9 Alison would have had to decide where to put her own clothes , though perhaps she had left most of them still at her flat .
10 There has long been a tradition of separating these ‘ special ’ clinics from the rest of the hospital , and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as ‘ Martha and Luke ’ clinic , James Pringle House , or ‘ Lydia ’ clinic .
11 Because the embryos begin to swim at the blastula stage they must be trapped in a nylon net to keep them still , the square holes providing micro-aquaria through which sea water is slowly passed .
12 One of them still had two or three mouthfuls of wine in it .
13 He loved them still .
14 They were surprised by his zeal and suspected trouble , but Nails was amenable and even civil during the journey , mystifying them still further .
15 Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page .
16 You do n't want to get paid for doing it and them still not do it .
17 When we come across a victim then , we should never attempt to solve their problems for them , since this only reinforces the idea that they are helpless victims of circumstance , with no strengths and resources of their own ; it disempowers them still further .
18 All the boys in Take That are careful with money , three of them still live at home with mum — and their parents make cups of tea for the adoring fans who wait outside their homes .
19 Although Forest are still bottom of the Premier League table today , you 'll find less people willing to bet on them still being there at the end of the season than on Norwich still being top .
20 STOCKBROKERS : STILL WILLING AND EAGER Post-Big Bang , many stockbrokers are subsidiaries of larger financial groups , but more than 200 of them still welcome private client business
21 The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding .
22 His head was against her knees ; the parcels lay about them still wrapped , being easier to pack .
23 National coach Frank Dick went to collect the quartet for the 7.15am bus to the Olympic Stadium , and was amazed to find them still asleep .
24 Defeat for the Gunners in this live televised Sunday spectacular would be the title favourites ' third straight loss and leave them still looking for their first point .
25 The dogmatic gap between them still looks unbridgeable : Right against Left , Christian against secular , ancient against modern .
26 The unions would use the early settlements made in annual negotiations as a precedent to obtain leverage in their own bargaining and would attempt to improve upon them still further .
27 Kluck , meanwhile , had lost contact with both the BEF and the French armies and , supposing them still in retreat , was reluctant to obey Moltke 's instructions of 4 September to stand fast .
28 All of them still possessed big overseas empires , in spite of the losses sustained by Spain and Portugal , and they were all heirs to traditions of worldwide enterprise .
29 Its view of such women as fundamentally , even biologically deviant , distances them still further from effective action .
30 Some 800,000 people are caught there , many of them still living as refugees , from a war fought nearly half a century ago , in camps without space or hope .
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