Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] still [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he or she still insists on following you around , make it clear that they can come no closer . |
| 2 | But he or she still seems to be unencumbered by , for example , the class , gender or ethnic relations which are of course socially constructed . |
| 3 | If your child is under 16 , he or she still has the right to consent to or refuse an HIV test if the doctor feels he or she has sufficient maturity and understanding . |
| 4 | He plans to complete extensions to their £400,000 home at Denham , Bucks , where he still lives with children Matthew , 12 , and Lauren , 10 . |
| 5 | It was unbelievable , yet there it was , clearly printed : ‘ The author , aged nineteen , was born in Tollemarche , Alberta , where he still resides … . ’ |
| 6 | Then it was back to hospital where he still faces months of physiotherapy and speech therapy . |
| 7 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 8 | Nor is Zurich neglecting its home base , where it still earns nearly a quarter of its premiums and does nearly half of its life insurance business . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , the right of journalists and broadcasters to demand trial by jury , in those areas of criminal law where it still exists , is an important security against interference with media freedoms — for reasons explained in 1885 by Dicey , the leading writer on our unwritten constitution : " Freedom of discussion is , then , in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury , consisting of 12 shopkeepers , think it expedient should be said or written … |
| 10 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 11 | I still ca n't read him ; I 'm not able to tell whether he thinks this is likely or not , whether he thinks this is evidence I 'm not his man or he still thinks I am but I had help . |
| 12 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |
| 13 | If you die leaving £347,000 to your wife it is assumed that she still has it when she dies , so £200,000 is taxable then . |
| 14 | Continuing with the Lois Lane example , suppose that she still expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures ( ignoring the effects of any general price movements on their relative prices ) , and she has no views about general price movements . |
| 15 | ‘ Before you ses anythin' , ’ said Carrie as Willie stood up , crimson , ‘ we 've jest come to tell you that we 're miserable about you not being in our class and that we still wants you to come round with us like . ’ |
| 16 | This is not the case however when the to infinitive is subject : although one still understands that the infinitive event is realized , there is nothing in such uses which specifies what leads up to its realization . |
| 17 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 18 | The fact that this happens so widely and the fact that in relation to the volume and importance of the work they have to do , curriculum centres are still understaffed and under-funded indicates that there still exists a rather strange ordering of educational priorities . |
| 19 | The first is that there still exists a widespread misunderstanding about the nature and purpose of evaluation . |
| 20 | However , sophisticated pantographs based on optical measurement of the rotation of the joints can offer much better results although they still falls short of the best systems . |
| 21 | HERE IN THE STORE is where you should feel a little scared , except it still seems like a game , and the hardware lining the walls , to the uninitiated , still like toys . |
| 22 | Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa . |
| 23 | Although it still contains air , it can no longer support the weight of the car . |
| 24 | The fourth is a few steps up the ladder and could easily be used as a gigging guitar , although it still carries hallmarks of the mass-produced Korean instrument . |
| 25 | However , the XE is not well supported by software houses , and although it still has a lot of games , most of these are very old . |
| 26 | Although it still has a stronger name on the track , the 1992 road range builds on the strength of previous years . |
| 27 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 28 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 29 | However Mr Northfield added there was no scope for compromise , and it was possible tougher action would be required , although he still hopes common sense will prevail . |
| 30 | Although he still has a long-term ambition to become a managing director of a successful company , for the moment his main aim is ‘ to help build Citigate into a top-quality player ’ . |