Example sentences of "[noun pl] that still [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grew tall with curving trunks , like the tree ferns that still thrive in tropical rain forests . |
| 2 | That the traditional shape of the old horseman 's day was a continuation of the much older discipline submitted to by the ox-driver and the ploughman is borne out by some of the terms that still survive in Suffolk . |
| 3 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 4 | Desperate for soldiers he organised the system of troop levies that still exists in Ulthuan today . |
| 5 | However , these optimistic hopes , while not entirely misconceived , appear to have ignored the many formidable traditional obstacles to the emancipation of women that still remain in most Third World societies , as well as new obstacles created by the so-called ‘ modernization ’ processes themselves . |