Example sentences of "it still [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This service averages over five hundred separate insertions per month , and while in the strictest sense of the term you do pay for it via the call charge , it still represents amazing value for money . |
| 2 | It still celebrates central Government control . |
| 3 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 4 | It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) . |
| 5 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 6 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 7 | It still attracted considerable interest and made $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Despite some later rebuilding it still possesses much work from the oldest stave church in Norway . |
| 10 | Not only has the Labour party not realised that GCSE results at 16 in Labour-controlled authorities are some of the worst , but it has learnt nothing — it still opposes standardised testing from the age of seven . |
| 11 | It still preaches old-fashioned family values , rather than rolling up its sleeves and doing something to help the single-parent families and the thousands of homeless who exist on Britain 's streets . |
| 12 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 13 | With a suitable model it still requires considerable practice , however , to produce something recognisable . |
| 14 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 15 | Though it still controlled local government , it lost some of its power of patronage and could no longer direct national policy in favour of its clientele . |
| 16 | The Soviet Union is reluctant to cut back on its oil supplies to Romania , since it still needs Romanian meat and consumer goods more than Ceausescu needs Soviet imports . |
| 17 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 18 | Even if the Soviet Union is no longer able to give orders , it still has great influence , and Mr Shevardnadze is believed to have used this in calls to Prague , Warsaw and East Berlin . |
| 19 | But somehow , it still has that touch of glamour . |
| 20 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
| 21 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 22 | BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals . |
| 23 | The second difference from the development charge was that though the levy would normally be paid to the seller , if ‘ when the land comes to be developed , it still has some development value on which levy has not been taken in previous sales , that residual value will be subject to levy at the time of development ’ . |
| 24 | While this figure is likely to have a fair range of variation according to the amount of crime in the catchment area of the newspaper and the general interest of the newspaper in reporting sex crime , it still gives some idea that it is only a small minority of local cases that get featured nationally . |
| 25 | Milton and Pooley had had this ritual described fully to them , graphically and with actions , but it still held great fascination . |
| 26 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 27 | State power , and consequently that of the education authorities , may have been eroded , but it still controls formal education . |
| 28 | This is bound to be somewhat artificial , since the obligation to show all the stages of your reasoning forces you to appear rather more introspective than you would be in real life , but it still provides good practice in arranging and presenting material in an acceptable style . |
| 29 | Although the importance of the hymen may have dwindled in western society , in the Middle East and Japan it still carries tremendous significance . |
| 30 | Flexible though the Formalist/Prague School approach may be in this respect , it still attaches overwhelming importance to the element of innovation in literature , thus reflecting the permanent revolution in poetic language , and in literary forms in general , brought about by the modernist movement from the later nineteenth century onwards . |