Example sentences of "still can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
| 32 | Two years later she still can not afford to get a divorce . |
| 33 | I still can not understand how the residents maintain that the proposed scheme will cause an increase in danger to people using the area . |
| 34 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
| 35 | Despite the definitive nature of this brochure , we still can not include the six hundred plus hotels that we work with in Italy . |
| 36 | Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John . |
| 37 | ALMOST a quarter of seven-year-olds still can not read , education tests showed yesterday — a year after the nation was shocked by similar figures . |
| 38 | Many people — editors audible among them — still can not believe it has stopped . |
| 39 | The officials in charge of it still can not find out exactly how much some of the firms they would like to sell are worth — or indeed , says one , how many firms the state actually owns . |
| 40 | They fall back on reserves of muscle protein to balance the high rate of heat loss — and still can not find sufficient food . |
| 41 | Derek , 42 , has trained and retrained but still can not find work . |
| 42 | Derek has trained and retrained to work in the construction industry , electronics , civil engineering and offshore construction but still can not find a job . |
| 43 | But they STILL can not say that radiation is to blame . |
| 44 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |