Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although after Jutland Britain still had more ships than Germany , as the Kaiser remarked , ‘ The spell of Trafalgar has been broken . ’ |
| 2 | Because in 1982 , when I was nine years old , my father 's work brought us to North Cornwall , where the landscapes are among the most magical on Earth and the legend of King Arthur still burns . |
| 3 | Ten years on , the case of Denis Nilsen still has n't gone away . |
| 4 | He sill maintains contact with motor racing in Britain and the name of Stirling Moss still remains synonymous with the sport . |
| 5 | While recognising these problems practitioners of TFP analysis still claim that TFI and TFP , taken together , can tell us useful things about economic performance . |
| 6 | All ship only with Open VMS initially : the shade of Ken Olsen still hovers , and if you want OSF/1 Unix , you 'll have to wait until March . |
| 7 | A large portrait of Susanna Jennens still hangs at Weston Hall , and has recently been restored . |
| 8 | In parts of England people still worship Pomona , the Roman goddess of fruit trees , through the custom of wassailing which is intended to encourage a good crop of apples . |
| 9 | Beneath the hill on which the serail huddles , the great iron gates of Jaffa port still stand next to a row of small stone shops , their Arab architecture belied by the Hebrew names above the windows . |
| 10 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 11 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 12 | However , with called up ordinary shares totalling nearly 274,000 from an authorised figure of 350,000 , the vast majority of DVR shareholders still fall into the category of casual supporters who bought a stake to help the Company succeed in running the original Dart Valley line from Totnes to Ashburton , and the later Torbay acquisition . |
| 13 | ( Note : it was something of a surprise , given the above , to find that the first batch of UK product still had the American manuals … ) |
| 14 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 15 | This House of Lords decision still did not achieve a clear distinction between leases and licences . |
| 16 | The old map refers to the southern section of Turnham Green as the ‘ Front Common ’ ( that on the north side of the High Road being referred to as the ‘ Back Common ’ ) and there existed , in Sutton Lane , overlooking the Packhorse Pond , ‘ The Chestnuts ’ , also Arlington House , with Arlington Park to the west , on the other side of the road from Fromow 's nursery , and the ruins of Heathfield House still shown on the road leading to Little Sutton and Dean 's Almshouses . |
| 17 | Some houses at the bottom of Killicomaine Road still pay ground rent on a long lease to the church , through the Trust Steward . |
| 18 | MANILA ( Reuter ) — President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines said yesterday that the body of Ferdinand Marcos still had a ‘ malignant power ’ that could be used by her opponents to seize power . |
| 19 | The body of Thomas Seton still hung from the gibbet . |
| 20 | Noel Wilson 's chance on Flap Jack looked dim with two to jump in the Bramham Moor 's Restricted , with G Derek still going strongly a dozen lengths ahead . |
| 21 | Clough is confirmed in England 's midfield in the RFK Stadium tomorrow , while Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince looks set to captain the side again with David Platt still injured . |
| 22 | After that , everything was just the same with Mrs Parvis still complaining as much as ever . |
| 23 | Despite his absence , the headlines that Ofahengaue was set to sign with St George still appeared . |
| 24 | And Souness ' attempt to sell Dean Saunders has hit the rocks with Aston Villa still refusing to pay Liverpool 's £2.3million asking price . |
| 25 | Our airfield was used by the military during World War Two and aircraft from RAF Leeming still pay us a visit occasionally . |
| 26 | I arrived in South Africa still stunned by the shock of hearing what my father had had to tell me , half expecting to find marriages being destroyed by outside parties everywhere I looked ! |
| 27 | In November Pravda still viewed the ASEAN declaration for neutralisation as denoting a ‘ far from easy task ’ since it presupposed an end to US ‘ aggression ’ in Indo-China , to China 's ‘ hegemonistic aspirations ’ and contradictions among Southeast Asian countries , and the removal of foreign military bases and foreign troops from the area . |
| 28 | But in Britain Marxism still had no more than minimal adherence and we must look rather to the re-emergence of the Labour Party from a decade in the shadows , when it was riven by international faction and uncertainty over international pacifism and rearmament . |
| 29 | In Britain children still hear biblical stories in schools ; much of American society is steeped in the bible . |
| 30 | Children in Greater London still get the most pocket money , £4.80 a week , while those in the East receive the least , only £3.40 a week . |