Example sentences of "and still [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) .
2 As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group .
3 Pests and diseases have had innumerable volumes devoted to them , and still remain a never-ending source of trouble and worry .
4 Such surveys formed the basis for research for many years and still remain the principal source for some categories of data .
5 He was a cheerful , tubby-faced man , born in Australia and still using the broad , flat accents of the Antipodes .
6 ‘ I could see a hundred evictions and still keep a level head on that subject .
7 That is enough to dock 6p off the basic rate of income tax and still keep the public-debt ratio stable .
8 Although Sprake got and still gets a great deal of stick , including from me , he was in fact an excellent keeper .
9 Competition amongst producers of commercial PC software has made it difficult for shareware authors to significantly undercut them and still charge a worthwhile amount for their products .
10 June Thomas was an engineering draughtswoman until three years ago , and still does a full-time job .
11 For the last few days of her life Julia lay in a drugged sleep , free from pain and still managing a faint smile for Pat as he hung over her , gripping her hand .
12 This was consistently commended by advisory staff throughout the period under review and still remains a central component of expected practice ( for example , Leeds City Council 1989a , 1989e , 1990a , 1990c ) .
13 It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends .
14 One thinks himself the master of others , and still remains the greater slave than they .
15 Emphasising that his anti-tax , anti-big government , America First campaign was for " the heart and soul of the Republican Party " , he stated that he could " lose 50 primaries to George Bush and still win the national debate " .
16 Instead it demonstrated that Scotland is profoundly conservative and still possesses a robust and apparently irreducible Conservative and Unionist vote .
17 He was a big man in an unbuttoned dinner jacket , someone who could probably shave three times a day and still show a five o'clock shadow .
18 But I ca n't see the man who squirmed through six successive defeats last spring and still reached the Premier League losing too much sleep .
19 The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague .
20 This was the worst part as by now everyone was tired , hungry , needed a long hot bath and still had a long drive home ; however spirits were cheerful and by the 29th May we were ready to do it all again .
21 The young ones were less strongly coloured and still had a downy look about them .
22 She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life .
23 The meat was cylindrical and bloody , and still had the furry skin on .
24 Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh .
25 In Islam , it symbolizes the bridge between Paradise , the world of men and the world below , and still retains a religious significance that is no longer evident in the West .
26 There on the threshold , barring her progress , stood Tessa , still wearing nothing but the tweed overcoat and still nursing the overstuffed open suitcase .
27 The rapids are still the biggest in North America , and still claim the occasional luckless victim , but 15,000 people now run the river every year .
28 As a result , Lewis was able to announce triumphant plans to get rich by fighting fat old George Foreman , whom Maloney ridiculed as an opponent for Bowe , to push for the split of the titles and still claim the high moral ground , which in heavyweight boxing , is about as firm as quicksand .
29 These are disease-free and nutritious and are best fed when they are fresh from the hatchery and still contain the marine algae , on which they in turn were fed , undigested in their stomachs .
30 I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary .
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