Example sentences of "and still [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , PT Timah took many years to develop its own technical expertise and still depends to an important degree on technical assistance from multinationals , including Billiton . |
| 2 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 3 | Because slaves can have their interests counted equitably and still remain in bondage . |
| 4 | Beatrix Potter 's little books provide a model of the economic use of precise language ; E. Nesbit sets standards of pace , intimacy with the reader , vivid immediacy , and dialogue ; Frances Hodgson Burnett shows how it is possible to hold and express beliefs ( such as the power of Nature ) and still remain in control ; Robert Louis Stevenson demonstrates the spirit-stirring power of adventure , a sort of basic human need to succeed and to survive gloriously ; Arthur Ransome illustrates how a matter-of-fact tone can match the no-nonsense approach of children ; and so on . |
| 5 | ( ‘ I pointed out to my boss that we could run the business straight and still pull in the same sort of money , but he said straight money did n't spend right . ’ ) |
| 6 | Barker 's poetry , however , is largely of a different order : rebellious , mad , hortatory , and still singing after all these years . |
| 7 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 8 | In the following months he defeated Lord Franks in the election of a Chancellor for Oxford University : he was still in office in 1983 , and still using in public ceremonies the Latin pronunciation he had learned at Eton in the last Edwardian days . |
| 9 | Jonathan Carroll 's After Silence ( Macdonald , £14.99 ) comes complete with a curious endorsement from Stephen King : ‘ I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporated scenes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature , ’ writes the doyen of domestic horror , prompting the thought that it all depends what you mean by literature . |
| 10 | As far as the trade was concerned we tried to , and still try to , do whatever makes it easiest for them to order books from us and sell them . |
| 11 | Rendezvous back in Çokertme where Captain Ibrahim still runs his tiny restaurant tucked beneath a range of wild mountains , and still insists on a round of belly dancing from his visitors . |
| 12 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 13 | Church Farm has been tenanted ever since , and from Clives , through marriages to the Earls of Powis , it came and still belongs to the Earls of Plymouth . |
| 14 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 15 | She stepped out from behind her rock , her skimpy dress clinging uncomfortably to her wet skin , providing absolutely no warmth , and still reeking of smoke . |
| 16 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 17 | If you are over 18 and still living at home with your family , you will receive your own Poll Tax bill . |
| 18 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |
| 19 | And now he 's forty , unmarried and still living with that old termagant he calls Mother . ’ |
| 20 | When you are young and still living within the family it is often hard to acknowledge that you are sexually active and need to take some precautions . |
| 21 | He 's nearly forty-two , you know , and still living in digs ! |
| 22 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been a member of the Leander club for the past 12 years and still train with them , ’ he explained . |
| 24 | Dunn Roamin … and still speaking of Sunderland , Kip Watson reports that former Gas Board fitter and Roker left winger Barry Dunn has just passed two score . |
| 25 | The salaries of government employees such as doctors and teachers were subject to inflation and still suffered from the Soviet concept of paying intellectuals less than manual workers . |
| 26 | Convention dictated , however ( and still does to some extent ) , that dangerous physical action is the part of heroes , not of heroines . |
| 27 | Listening to children reading has dominated the early stages of reading instruction for several decades , and still does to a great extent . |
| 28 | Barry has since acquired a video recording of the race and still gloats over it even now . |
| 29 | The prerogative gives the state widespread powers regarding the disposition and control of the armed forces , power to take action in an emergency , authority to make treaties and declarations of war and peace , and still remains of some importance in foreign affairs . |
| 30 | Women take more time , talk easily and still adhere to the strict rules of manners . |