Example sentences of "they still [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night a spokesman for the SO players said they were unhappy with the proposals , although their ballot was not a reflection on the SO management , in whom they still had complete faith . |
| 2 | In fact they still had enough resilience to manage a try from short range by Fisher but another highly satisfactory night for the Kiwis ended with Kuiti scoring in the 79th minute and Bancroft landing his sixth goal . |
| 3 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 4 | They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all . |
| 5 | They still treated each other with caution but each was beginning to respect the other 's professionalism . |
| 6 | They still require experimental evidence before they can be accepted as fact . |
| 7 | While they still maintain feminist art history should raise ‘ fundamental questions for art history as a humanist discipline ’ , they do not believe feminist art history should be confined to the documentation of women artists ( as a form of additive history ) . |
| 8 | Although of course they still cause considerable pain to any animal caught in them wild or domestic . |
| 9 | If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices . |
| 10 | This is hardly surprising since not only do they still confer enormous discretion on magistrates , but in any case they are only advisory . |
| 11 | But they still received some protection from folk like the English kings who found profit in them , and especially from William Rufus , who seems quite sincerely to have disliked the Church 's intolerance ; and the Church itself strongly condemned violent persecution . |
| 12 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 13 | They still have personal jewellery ( rings , neck-chains , etc. ) worth a total of 250 GCs . |
| 14 | Even if they turn out to be right , some of them , they still have British Rail privatization , they still have VAT on fuel , they still have rising water charges , they still have the education wrangle . |
| 15 | Even if they turn out to be right , some of them , they still have British Rail privatization , they still have VAT on fuel , they still have rising water charges , they still have the education wrangle . |
| 16 | And although England showed signs of improvement against Norway last month , following their debacle in the European Championship finals in Sweden during the summer , they still have some way to go to ensure a comfortable path to the United States . |
| 17 | They still play attractive football , but there is no end product . |
| 18 | They usually end up arguing , but they still love each other . |
| 19 | But while the two sides seem to have considerable ground to make up , both countries are aware of how much they still need each other . |
| 20 | Do they still have non-contributory pension schemes around the country ? |
| 21 | Some twenty two thousand have been made homeless , and they still face constant danger . |
| 22 | These , then , are some general principles , but you may feel that they still leave considerable scope for discretion and interpretation . |