Example sentences of "[noun] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 2 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 3 | Er on Friday Mike was talking to Rob Rob was at dad 's so Mike was standing talking to them , but my ears still flapped . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've stopped , ’ she said vaguely , her ears still ringing . |
| 5 | She was sitting on the veranda , her ears still straining for a sound of the departing plane . |
| 6 | His ears still have that ringing that seems to have become part of his headache . |
| 7 | Yet he accompanied their tumbrils without a word , his eyes blank and bloodshot , his fur slicked down , his ears still flattened against his skull . |
| 8 | If suicide were a way of getting rid of undesirable genetic characteristics , why do strandings still occur ? |
| 9 | Herbert Rothman still experiences a sense of wonder that ‘ they apologised if they bumped into you ’ . |
| 10 | Persian rugs still possess an undoubted mystique , and are generally more expensive than those from other countries , but price differentials have been steadily eroding , and they are now generally cheaper in comparison to rugs from other countries than they have been for decades . |
| 11 | Actions under the Act differ from those at common law in that the consumer does not have to prove fault , but causation still needs to be established and the burden of proof is on the consumer . |
| 12 | Today , this dramatic loch still produces superb trout of unequalled quality ; and sea-trout , fresh from the tide that races through the outlet at Bridge of Waithie into Bay of Ireland and Hoy Sound . |
| 13 | A similar species used to inhabit Loch na Moal Choire , long since fished out , but the loch still provides sport with native wild brown trout . |
| 14 | For all his qualities , which are many , in those days Dennis still had a huge chip on his shoulder . |
| 15 | By now it was almost one , but Dennis still wanted to party . |
| 16 | Although not packed with tourists like Stratford , Warwick still attracted its fair share of visitors . |
| 17 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 18 | Yet questions remain about those many schools still locked in the traditional relationship of ‘ casual acquaintances ’ or ‘ bureaucrat and claimant ’ discussed earlier . |
| 19 | Many diverse schools still come from Okinawa , but it is generally accepted that the mainstay of much of the karate that is practised in the world today is the original shotokan style , brought from Okinawa to Japan by karate 's modern-day founder and innovator , Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 20 | In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position . |
| 21 | Many primary schools still go under the title of junior mixed infant , a very curious and old fashioned title . |
| 22 | The quality of schools still varies widely . |
| 23 | At this date schools still meant places where masters of repute might be found , but the masters might well move on to other cities taking their pupils with them . |
| 24 | First things first : schools still need a speedy mechanism for getting rid of those guilty of gross misconduct , negligence and incompetence . |
| 25 | Many schools still have a remedial department or are visited by peripatetic remedial teachers who withdraw children for extra tuition in reading with little time for consultation with school staff . |
| 26 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 27 | Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems . |
| 28 | While this was a huge boost to such manufacturers as Acorn and Research Machines , it meant that British schools still found themselves committed to relatively basic , 8-bit technology at a time when the rest of Europe was establishing a base of more powerful 16-bit MS-DOS technology . |
| 29 | Nutritionists and cartographers still draw the so-called ‘ hunger line ’ through Asia and the Americas ; the poorer people who live in those countries that are sandwiched between Mexico and Chile , and between North Korea and New Guinea , exist on diets of fewer than 2,250 calories a day , and thus go to bed each night hungry . |
| 30 | Tiller writing the storyline still whisked his audience round the world but the comedy element was more dominant . |