Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ten years on , the case of Denis Nilsen still has n't gone away . |
| 3 | He sill maintains contact with motor racing in Britain and the name of Stirling Moss still remains synonymous with the sport . |
| 4 | While recognising these problems practitioners of TFP analysis still claim that TFI and TFP , taken together , can tell us useful things about economic performance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A large portrait of Susanna Jennens still hangs at Weston Hall , and has recently been restored . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( Note : it was something of a surprise , given the above , to find that the first batch of UK product still had the American manuals … ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This House of Lords decision still did not achieve a clear distinction between leases and licences . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some houses at the bottom of Killicomaine Road still pay ground rent on a long lease to the church , through the Trust Steward . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The body of Thomas Seton still hung from the gibbet . |