Example sentences of "still can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 2 | Britain still can not decide when to play the mandarinate game of silence with the Chinese and when to break the rules ( as Beijing does all the time . ) |
| 3 | Thus , with a prospective payment system , the funding agency still can not control total expenditure unless it can control the number of cases . |
| 4 | Thus , with a prospective payment system the funding agency still can not control total expenditure , unless it can control the number of cases . |
| 5 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 6 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 7 | But , note , that although your book will be much more like " real life " than the basic , blueprint formula , you still can not upset your readers by , as in real life , having the murderer be that passing sex pervert or opportunist small-time thief . |
| 8 | The verificationist who is unwilling to admit the possibility of such facts ( in this he is a consistent anti-realist ) must therefore say that such a statement , though perhaps it may be determinately false when one of its consequences is observed to be false , still can not achieve determinate truth . |
| 9 | But the argument still can not carry Mr. Browne all the way . |
| 10 | I still can not hold that tension between the immediacy of the world of my childhood , the towering hugeness of my mother and father and my grown-up brother , back from Germany and the RAF with his rifle and a suntan , and the interconnecting pattern of the economy , their class and politics . |
| 11 | Particularly where the subject is a plural personal pronoun no variation seems to be permitted ; but in our initial search for invariance ( cf. 1.1 ) , we still can not specify this rule as categorical with the same confidence as we can define a constraint on a phonological variable . |
| 12 | I still can not go to a service , nor say the Creed . |
| 13 | They have satisfied all physical desire , but still can not bear to be parted . |
| 14 | If you still can not reach up to the extreme end and determine that the burrow is now empty you must reintroduce your line ferret once more to do the job for you . |
| 15 | If a disabled person does get into a phone box he or she still can not reach the telephone . |
| 16 | Does not the Secretary of State realise that thousands and thousands of people who still can not pay the poll tax are facing court action and warrant sales ? |
| 17 | The senior partner , Mr Alan Vickers , has been with the firm for 40 years but still can not claim to be the longest-serving member of staff . |
| 18 | ‘ However , the game is not yet over and , if you 'll accept my apologies , we still can not discern friend from foe . ’ |
| 19 | Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed . |
| 20 | Apparently she had had heavy thighs all her life and still can not get used to her new shape . |
| 21 | But sometimes parents still can not accept their daughter 's sexuality , especially if they return to live in their parents ' home . |
| 22 | But the BBC and talent unions — the Musicians ' Union , Equity and the Writers ' Guild — still can not agree on how much the performers and writers who contribute to the original broadcast should be paid out of profits accruing from re-issue of their work on video disc or tape . |
| 23 | Let us make sure that for the next two weeks he still can not prove . ’ |
| 24 | Take kids for last shopping trip but still can not remember which essential of life we have run out of . |
| 25 | I still can not conceal from you my feeling of exultation as I first watched these exquisite creatures emerging before my eyes . |
| 26 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 27 | You feel you have tried all ways , listened to advice , thought about your life but still can not see your way clear . |
| 28 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 29 | And if the faint heart should quail at this then think of the children being sexually exploited in the Philippines and Thailand where the Western male consumer can see the misery behind his gratification but still can not resist . |
| 30 | More importantly , some commentators suggest that the central issue is that most locals still can not afford owner-occupied housing ( Docklands Forum , 1987 ) . |