Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] it [be] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 2 | Despite this , Mazzin maintained that it was still a local feud . |
| 3 | Despite launching those 40 new ValuePoint models , IBM Corp says that it is still supply-constrained on the earlier models of ValuePoint but that supply will be strong for the new models : ‘ Demand continues to outstrip supply with the models we currently have on the market , ’ said Angelica Horaitis , director of value brands at the IBM Personal Computer Co ; she says IBM has learned and is ready with the new ones . |
| 4 | As soon as it was light the farmer sent the child out into the fields ; and there the child remained while it was still light . |
| 5 | A glance at my watch showed that it was still only ten past five . |
| 6 | He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money . |
| 7 | Two new volumes commissioned while it was still under the Penguin name are Painting and Sculpture in France 1700–1789 by Sir Michael Levey which is an entirely rewritten version of the paintings section of the French eighteenth-century paintings and sculpture volume published in the 1970s and The Pictorial Arts of the West 800–1200 by Reginald Dodwell . |
| 8 | The Labour party 's amendment shows that it is still wedded to clause 4 and to renationalisation , despite the fact that the leader of the Labour party said recently : ’ We must learn to run capitalism better than the Conservatives . ’ |
| 9 | As water power became less important , the community declined but it is still preserved as an example of an early settlement . |
| 10 | Seeking escape routes I found the only other Customs Waterguard Station , seemingly more unpopular than Heathrow , available at that time was Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides and when I rang HQ one day to see if it was still open . |
| 11 | The Forum recognises that sustainable development is a difficult concept to embrace because it is still ill-defined in terms of practical planning policies . |
| 12 | The cloth is then wrung out as dry as possible and the deposited water recovered while it is still hot . |
| 13 | However , many knitters find that it is still difficult to plan and knit garments . |
| 14 | In 1904 D. G. Hogarth wrote that it was still the only source for many places . |
| 15 | Any other small mammal of this size would quickly be squashed to death , but when he steps off it after several minutes , the hero shrew reveals that it is still very much alive by trying to escape . |
| 16 | Troops advanced from the garrison towns of Malakal and Juba , while the government said that it was still prepared to participate in any future peace talks with the rebels which Nigeria might succeed in mediating [ for October 1991 postponement of talks see p. 38519 ] . |
| 17 | The BJP knows that it is still unfit to govern . |
| 18 | We must be aware of this and constantly compare the copy with the real thing to see if it is still valid . |
| 19 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 20 | The next thing to do whilst it is still taped to the light box is to draw up a component layout diagram , actual size . |
| 21 | It is clear from Fig. 18.9 and from other similar work that the instability can give rise to well-developed ring-shaped vortices while it is still in the periodic stage . |
| 22 | In later years , however , the company denied that it was still responsible for pollution and certainly lead emissions were considerably reduced when mining went underground . |
| 23 | Ten years ago I had purchased such a camera , a Pentax ME Super , and fortunately , I was able to dig it out from the back of a cupboard to find that it was still in excellent working order . |
| 24 | The Home Office confirmed that it was still looking for a ‘ parliamentary opportunity ’ to fulfil the promise . |