Example sentences of "it still [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |
| 4 | It still encompasses those things too , but the fusions of music and word and gesture that new opera can sustain are both rich and mysterious , and , significantly , capable of attracting an audience that would find the old-fashioned operatic conventions quite outside its frame of reference . |
| 5 | Hamleys , the country 's largest toy shop , claims it still sells more Concordes than Tornados . |
| 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 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 8 | That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation . |
| 9 | The Imperial Airways ground staff at Karachi assisted with the repair of the Croydon , but without the facilities available in England it still took several weeks . |
| 10 | But even when unanimity is the genuine product of a free decision on the part of all , it still poses some problems . |
| 11 | Stockport Health Authority said yesterday it still rejected all Mr Pink 's claims about conditions in the wards and was pulling out to save money . |
| 12 | Authority chairman Tony Russell said it still rejected all Mr Pink 's claims about conditions in the wards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite some later rebuilding it still possesses much work from the oldest stave church in Norway . |
| 15 | But somehow , it still has that touch of glamour . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is common practice to put a battery on charge when it still has some life in it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere . |
| 21 | The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside . |
| 22 | It still has these spots , although they have n't got any worse and the other fish have not been affected . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It still retained such jurisdiction , and received some increase and confirmation of it , in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | It still puts such services at a disadvantage compared with the supply of goods to a customer elsewhere in the EC which is zero-rated if VAT numbers are known . |