Example sentences of "it still [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately it still contained the foot ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stalinism is dead politically but it still dominates the security and state apparatus . |
| 4 | Although laws were passed in the 1960s , reducing the share of United States ' capital in the firm , it still remains the major shareholder . |
| 5 | … 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It still remains the case pace Freeman that a literary text like King Lear is not definitively explicable . |
| 10 | I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here . |
| 11 | ‘ It still scares the shit out of me . |
| 12 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 13 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The interior of the farmhouse had been opened out into a reception office , though it still had the original stone floor and a pretty impressive fireplace in the middle of one wall . |
| 16 | Among other features of the road it is interesting to see how it still forms the northern boundary of Kirtlington Park , to the east of the Cherwell , and the southern boundary of Tackley Park , on the other side of the river . |
| 17 | It still forms the centrepiece of most Westerners ' meals . |
| 18 | In this case it still forces the COPY device to read each file in turn . |
| 19 | It still behoved the middle class trader to play fair with his customers and not take advantage of good-natured country parsons and ignorant members of the labouring classes . |
| 20 | But it still obscures the fact that it is women who are raped . |
| 21 | It lights up but it erm you turn to the regulo love and it still stays the same level which is you know , sort of you know , little . |
| 22 | And although the technology is different , it still involves the use of mercury . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That sum may seem like a lot of lei ( the Romanian currency that purchases next to nothing abroad ) but it still left the Romanians treading a financial tightrope . |
| 25 | But it still left the question of who had been ringing her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But the ideas in it still form the core of the Russian government 's alternative economic plan . |
| 29 | You see , I found the collar of the lap dog and it still bore the Deveril 's family motto : ‘ Noli me tangere ’ . |
| 30 | We slept heavily ; it still seemed the middle of the night as we rose at 5am in order to reach Tarbert in time for our ferry . |