Example sentences of "still [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 2 | But there still remain a great deal of summer Sundays in which the massive latent cricket audience can be satisfied . |
| 3 | He 's a great leader and although he has done so much , he still has a great future in front of him . ’ |
| 4 | He still has a great deal to teach us , |
| 5 | There have been many criticisms of the Chicago School but this body of work still has a great deal to teach us . |
| 6 | I was from a family in Northern California , about thirty miles out of San Francisco ; I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s , but we were actually swimmers . |
| 7 | And the Fifth still has a great fascination for me — in particular , how to bring off the very end of the work . |
| 8 | The dark , blue-black serpentine which had been popular before was still used a great deal , but now new materials were tried out as well — alabaster , gypsum , limestone , marble and breccia — and some extremely hard rocks like porphyry . |
| 9 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 10 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 11 | You always know you 'll get nothing short of 110 per cent and he 's still got a great appetite for playing at the top level . |
| 12 | In 1980 , Robert , The Vines and its master still needed a great deal of looking after , but Patricia , once secretary to Billy Griffith at Lord 's , was equal to the task . |
| 13 | Remember , you 've still had a great season . ’ |
| 14 | But two things still matter a great deal . |
| 15 | However thick the dust on your bookshelves may be you will either be reassured that you still remember a great deal of what you originally learnt from your training and former jobs , or you will be seized by momentary panic at how much you have forgotten . |
| 16 | Although Sprake got and still gets a great deal of stick , including from me , he was in fact an excellent keeper . |
| 17 | We have been here almost a year now and the Revd Brunton Scott is still having a great affect on our lives . |
| 18 | We think that Kos is an exceptional place for seeing traditional Greece and still having a great holiday with all the nightlife you can imagine . |
| 19 | Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her . |
| 20 | In his adult life all these painful thoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness . |
| 21 | Although Stephen 's trips to the mills became less frequent as he appointed capable managers , the farms on the estate and the timber business still took a great deal of his life and Tamar found that time hung heavily . |
| 22 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 23 | Since she was capable of loving so deeply , she can still , if she chooses , remain in the business of giving and receiving love for as long as she lives , for although she may feel that she is no longer everything to anyone , she can still mean a great deal to a number of people . |
| 24 | Although rail now has the reliability necessary to support the development of intermodal road/rail freight transport in the UK , now established , productivity and cost structures still leave a great deal to be desired . |
| 25 | That first tour did a lot to make the rest of the tours tremendously successful because , with all things like that , if you do play to a small group of people and you still do a great show , then by word of mouth the word spreads how wonderful you were , even though it was n't packed . |
| 26 | The Leith-based Small , 19 , who reached the last 16 of the 1992 Embassy World Championship , said : ‘ This is my last event of the season , but I have still learned a great deal and I 'm sure it can only benefit me in the years to come . ’ |
| 27 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 28 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 29 | After James II had been overthrown , a new system of government began to develop under which Parliament met every year and voted taxes annually , the King chose ministers who were acceptable to Parliament , the administrative departments became independent of direct royal intervention ( though the King still had a great deal of authority over his ministers ) and Parliament took responsibility for national financial policy . |
| 30 | Although the cable has by this stage disappeared , the cells in the mound still contain a great deal of filamentous actin in a disorganized arrangement ( Fig. 4 h ) . |