Example sentences of "[noun] still [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 2 | The drive snaked across the flank of the hill to a levelled clearing which had once been the site of a mine ; a giant stack still stood within a hundred yards of their door . |
| 3 | As late as the 24th , when it was obvious the whole French front was collapsing , the German storm troops still waited for a renewed artillery preparation , and then moved circumspectly , as if half-expecting to walk into some kind of –rap . |
| 4 | The late afternoon sun was beginning to lose its heat , but under its fading glare the waving grass of the plain still shimmered in a gray-green haze and Joseph 's unpractised eye could detect no movement . |
| 5 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 6 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 7 | But , despite the slump , profits in the six months to September still grew by a theoretical 5% to £10.26m ( true comparisons are impossible post-float ) . |
| 8 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 9 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |