Example sentences of "[art] [noun] it still [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | While not so attractive as the male it still shows the red stripes down the side and a hint of the red spots in the caudal peduncle . |
2 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
3 | There is a proposal to turn part of the building into a museum of pharmacy ; at the moment it still functions partially as a hospital . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Despite all the changes it still bears many of the hallmarks of a family-owned company . |
6 | Yet in spite of this , away from the front it still retains a small Italian town atmosphere with cobbled streets and attractive red roofed buildings . |
7 | The continued argument about transport development shows how important a part it still plays in the economy of the US . |
8 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
9 | There was a practice at one time — no doubt it still continues in certain quarters — of collecting the rootstocks in which implanted buds had failed , bundling them up and selling them off as hedging . |