Example sentences of "and it still [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Pollen was an almost identical diet and it still remains a most important prize .
2 It lights up but it erm you turn to the regulo love and it still stays the same level which is you know , sort of you know , little .
3 This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles .
4 The acquirer should not agree to a clause which states that if by completion it is aware of a breach of warranty and it still elects to proceed to completion it thereby waives any claim for damages .
5 He lives in the same town and it still hurts her to see him .
6 And it still hurts ?
7 You see , I found the collar of the lap dog and it still bore the Deveril 's family motto : ‘ Noli me tangere ’ .
8 I do about three hundred sit-ups a day and it still refuses to firm up , but what else can I do ?
9 The one used in London can handle fifty million pieces of information in one second , and it still takes minutes to produce a forecast for a few days ahead .
10 You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name .
11 You know , the water board er er it 's all the same ones that we hear on th on the television , and it still happens !
12 I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database .
13 And it still fits , it still fits over the hump .
14 And it still frightens me .
15 And it still turns up in Jam books to this day .
16 Mandarin , head down and drained of all energy , was all out , and it still seemed that his heroic effort might come to nothing , for the French horse Lumino was gaining with every stride and closing inexorably on the leader .
17 Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot .
18 Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts .
19 Inside the Visitors ' Centre , a beautiful scale model of number 70000 ‘ Britannica ’ built by Mr G Kirkby to a 10¼ inch gauge rested and it still retains its boiler certificate .
20 Although John Stork International became , to all intents and purposes , a pure search business , this was not always the case , and it still maintains other interests , including two management assessment firms , who employ several psychologists .
21 Tonight Northampton Council said it was suprised , but the planning permission will last five years , and it still hopes Coca-Cola will move in when the economy improves .
22 The canal was derelict for many years , but now flows again to produce electricity for the neighbourhood ; and it still makes a pleasant summer evening walk from Tavistock to the tunnel mouth .
23 But from ninety one ninety two onwards a married woman was entitled to an allowance in her own right , and it still mystifies me knowing Mrs Thatcher was in office for all those years , why it took so long for this to happen , .
24 Asked whether he would ask for a postponement of the talks Mr Clerides said : ‘ This was my position in the election campaign , and it still stands . ’
25 Give them what they want and you will get their support even in these difficult times , ’ was Chapman 's eternal advice , and it still rings true .
26 So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ?
27 Earlier this century it had a reputation as a treacherous mountain , with lots of accidents on the summit ridge — and it still claims lives .
28 It was named after the nearby Inn , the ‘ Star and Garter Home ’ , and it still provides for the needs of such servicemen , the newer inmates generally rendered handicapped as a result of their tours or duty in Northern Ireland , also some from the Falkland conflict .
29 His study on psychoanalysis was crucial in this respect and it still provides the basic model for the particular notion of social representation ( Moscovici , 1976 ) .
30 It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years .
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