Example sentences of "it still [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still contained a handful of cosmetics , and , at the very back , her mother 's suede jewellery case . |
| 2 | Unfortunately it still contained the foot ! ’ |
| 3 | Check as there may be insurance problems , but do n't be put off , or how about getting a dealer to supply a cardboard mock-up of a car and using this , it still grabs the attention . |
| 4 | Stalinism is dead politically but it still dominates the security and state apparatus . |
| 5 | It still remains a question whether it all works physically . |
| 6 | However , it still remains a scheme that is limited to a relatively small proportion of practices . |
| 7 | If such an exclusion of the Withington mosaic is accepted , It still remains a matter of conjecture as to which of the three closely related mosaics was earliest . |
| 8 | I have checked that it still remains a right and that it is OK to withdraw . |
| 9 | … naive social realism in a minor key … a potentially crippling form … it still remains the case that present-day discussion of British fiction is strongly influenced by a widely-held conviction that we are dealing with a literature in decline . |
| 10 | That is to say , it still remains the case that men of all social origins have become more likely to be found in service-class positions and less likely to be found in working-class ones . |
| 11 | It still remains the case that something between 50 and 60 per cent of all regions in the Community lie within 15 per cent of the Community average per capita GDP . |
| 12 | Despite this increase in size , and the fact that regional aid can contribute a significant input of resources to any particular area , it still remains the case that the extent of Community regional assistance is small , amounting to just 25 per cent of the total EC budget by 1992 . |
| 13 | It still remains the case pace Freeman that a literary text like King Lear is not definitively explicable . |
| 14 | ‘ It still scares the shit out of me . |
| 15 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 16 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 17 | At the Princeton Laboratories , even using powerful mainframe technology , it still takes an average of four seconds of real time to compress a single video frame . |
| 18 | It still had a north of England feel about it you know . |
| 19 | It still had the power to turn the stomach , that whisper of shifting allegiance that Thorfinn himself had picked up weeks ago , and that Dunegal of Nithsdale 's hurried warning of danger had seemed to confirm . |
| 20 | It still forms the centrepiece of most Westerners ' meals . |
| 21 | This is a great advance over the rate achieved by earlier machines , but it still allows a routine lookahead of only four moves . |
| 22 | In this case it still forces the COPY device to read each file in turn . |
| 23 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 24 | And although the technology is different , it still involves the use of mercury . |
| 25 | This image is almost entirely man-made , save perhaps for the palm-tree , yet it still evokes a sense of paradise . |
| 26 | The Truro banker William Praed invested £19,400 in the Grand Junction , and even if it was on behalf of clients , it still represented the mobilisation of savings from a county 300 miles from the canal . |
| 27 | But it still left the question of who had been ringing her . |
| 28 | Although Hampshire Bus 's successor , Stagecoach , in what we were told was splendid entrepreneurial fashion doubled its money in a fortnight by selling the coach station , it still left the problem that some people wanted to travel by coach . |
| 29 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 30 | But the ideas in it still form the core of the Russian government 's alternative economic plan . |