Example sentences of "still [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offices are still heated only half the day . |
| 2 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 3 | It is to the area is still treated differently for insurance terms . |
| 4 | The former military dictator General Zir-El-Haaq is still revered here . |
| 5 | The largest army in the world was recruited mainly from the peasantry , and , as has been seen in the provinces , the party still relied heavily in 1922 on ex-army men to act as leaven among the ‘ dark people ’ . |
| 6 | The committee noted that although significant sums had been invested in rural hospitals , those still relied heavily on local GPs and larger district general hospitals . |
| 7 | The Little Avon must have provided a reasonably reliable source of power for , in an era when mill owners were beginning to install steam engines to supplement or replace water power , during the 1830s New Mills still relied solely on water . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 9 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 10 | South America separated from Africa , while Antarctica and Australia — still joined together — drifted southwards . |
| 11 | Though chopped every which way , the whole tentacle squirmed towards where they stood as if still joined together , glued by some adhesive force from outside the normal universe . |
| 12 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 13 | Moma Parsheen still floated blindly near the plascrystal port . |
| 14 | A few sheep still grazed there . |
| 15 | The Hunt Balls are still recalled today with something akin to awe in the villages of Lartington and Cotherstone where several former servants of the Fields live in retirement . |
| 16 | The achievement of the men of '58 — they played superbly to reach the final only to lose to Dublin — is still recalled proudly in Derry . |
| 17 | That thinking was still cast in the mould of a hundred years before ; the methods of conducting war at sea were still those of blockade , commerce-destroying and protection , and still depended ultimately on the ability to win a pitched gun-battle with the enemy fleet . |
| 18 | ‘ I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses , ’ Charlotte Bronte writes in 1848 , reporting the sensations of a reader rather than commenting upon description , for Jane Austen 's contexts are , like Richardson 's , still sensed rather than seen . |
| 19 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 20 | ‘ The worshippers ’ he continued , ‘ are still regarded mainly as an audience but the house is manifestly a house of God ’ : Newman Hall intended it to be both a non-denominational centre and a ‘ Cathedral of Nonconformity ’ . |
| 21 | In that light , and with reggae still regarded as little more than a novelty by the mainstream music business , Shabba 's ambition can only be applauded . |
| 22 | In the laboratory , males had a significantly slower rate of growth , but still matured earlier than females . |
| 23 | it 's still swollen now int it ? |
| 24 | Batty 's right ankle was still swollen yesterday and it looked as though he would need a miracle cure to make the second leg of the European Cup tie . |
| 25 | Bothwell carried Mary off again , this time to Borthwick castle , a dark tower house in Midlothian south of Edinburgh which is still inhabited today . |
| 26 | The 1900 Secession exhibition was significantly international , but still included only a minority of avant-garde paintings . |
| 27 | However , only 43 per cent were paid more than £5 per week above the minimum , and full-time male farm workers in 1977 still earned only 77 per cent of the average earnings of all male manual workers . |
| 28 | The car , presumably , was still parked outside . |
| 29 | The car , presumably , was still parked outside ? |
| 30 | The car — he thought — is still parked outside , the rain drumming on its roof , the iced mud packed round the wheels . |