Example sentences of "it still [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 2 | It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) . |
| 3 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 4 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 5 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 6 | Despite some later rebuilding it still possesses much work from the oldest stave church in Norway . |
| 7 | But somehow , it still has that touch of glamour . |
| 8 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
| 9 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 10 | BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals . |
| 11 | The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ . |
| 12 | While this figure is likely to have a fair range of variation according to the amount of crime in the catchment area of the newspaper and the general interest of the newspaper in reporting sex crime , it still gives some idea that it is only a small minority of local cases that get featured nationally . |
| 13 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 14 | It still retained such jurisdiction , and received some increase and confirmation of it , in the nineteenth century . |