Example sentences of "still [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although large areas of grassland still remain on unploughable slopes , particularly on the north-facing scarp , they have largely changed in character . |
| 2 | Although corporate jets still ferry in high rollers to the tables of Caesars Palace , the Mirage and the Desert Inn , the hotel and casino industry is working hard on improving its image and , at the same trying to attract the family crowd as much as those who take their gambling seriously . |
| 3 | Books with their yellow Mudie 's label still appear in large numbers , and their contribution to the literary culture of the time must have been high indeed . |
| 4 | Even today , most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau ; Candide and the Confessions still appear in popular editions , and are therefore read . |
| 5 | Other viruses make many of their own enzymes but still depend on cellular proteins to perform some essential tasks . |
| 6 | All social classes are to be found in all tenure groups , although to a very unequal degree , and tenure differences still hold within social classes and categories of education ( Murphy and Sullivan 1985 ) . |
| 7 | They still abound in virile superheroes and violent themes , with women , when they appear , relegated to seductive and helpless stereotypes . |
| 8 | More social history is being taught but examination syllabuses still focus on political and economic history which conventionally excludes women . |
| 9 | At the other were old women and old men up and about , actively using old skills , adapting and developing new ones , able to play and to care and confide ; still open to new love from the young . |
| 10 | The statesman as artist — God knows it is a dubious and dangerous idea , but to get rid of it Probably involves demoting statesmen and aspiring statesmen from the privileged position that they still enjoy in public estimation . |
| 11 | Men could examine their consciences , and still opt for different sides . |
| 12 | We still refer to certain compounds as being ‘ hermetically sealed ’ , in reference to the touch of his magic caduceus which he latterly bestowed upon AESCULAPIUS , the god of healing . |
| 13 | Oh we still get on fine . |
| 14 | We still hear of black students who make telephone appointments to view property , only to be told it 's already gone when they arrive to view . |
| 15 | Many women still marry for economic reasons , able to live better on their husband 's earnings than on their own . |
| 16 | At this stage it is worth emphasising that we still deal with personal injury litigation under an adversarial system . |
| 17 | Licensed dealers still deal in certain shares the punter reads about in the tip sheets . |
| 18 | A few days ago I had gotten ill and my legs still feel like thin stilts . |
| 19 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 20 | Even in the more structured work of surveys HM Inspectors still rely upon informal and holistic methods rather than observation schedules ( a topic we shall consider in Part Three in relation to observation methods ) . |
| 21 | Weaker versions of the Queen Bee syndrome still operate among prominent North American and British female psychologists . |
| 22 | Some of these renunciations are universal , and still operate in modern peoples . |
| 23 | In an arena where music is married to a mixing desk , committed to computer and performed through basic PAs , Whyte still toil with bass and drums . |
| 24 | ‘ We still believe in structured methodologies ’ , says O'Brien , ‘ but the fact remains that 80% of software developers have not taken them up ’ . |
| 25 | When investing in a new kitchen , most people still go for easy-on-the-eye neutral shades , pure whites and sophisticated greys . |
| 26 | Aboriginals still point to various rocky outcrops or sandstone gullies which trace the Myndie Snake 's progress through the outback . |
| 27 | Many government documents , passports , residence cards , even the road-signs , appeared in both French and Arabic — as they still do in General Gouraud 's strangely conceived republic to this day . |
| 28 | Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation , political repression , malnutrition and ecological crisis . |
| 29 | Some 2.7 million people still live in affected areas--400,000 of them in areas made unfit for human habitation because of radiation levels or in areas from which they should have been moved . |
| 30 | For example , in rural Cape Province , especially in the famous wine-growing areas , there are groups of Coloured workers who still live in semi-feudal conditions similar to those found among black workers on white farms in other parts of the country . |