Example sentences of "[noun pl] it still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 2 | Though the estate has somewhat diminished since the Weighall days it still has superbly laid-out grounds of over thirty acres . |
| 3 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 4 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 5 | Hanson revealed that it had sold 100,000 shares in Morgan — but told investors it still owns 4.4million shares in the merchant bank . |
| 6 | Despite all the changes it still bears many of the hallmarks of a family-owned company . |
| 7 | At times it still feels like yesterday , otherwise it seems a lifetime away . |
| 8 | The shady ground under the coppice of trees was a blue and white carpet of anemones — what trouble Claire had with that word when she was little , at times it still defeated her . |
| 9 | In its cheaper forms it still suffers from the classical trouble of intolerable leakage in bad weather , especially because of the much higher loads put into the hull by modern rigs . |
| 10 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 11 | Islam is also the most recent as it only began in 612 A.D. Even though this religion is different from others it still has the common belief in good that all religions have . |
| 12 | I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here . |