Example sentences of "[be] still [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In most towns , however , the factory system was hardly evident and many urban workers seem to have been still keeping hold of Saint Monday as , almost , an accepted holiday in 1815 .
2 The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things .
3 The vast middle class seems bored with the notion of taking to the streets when the government is still offering gestures of conciliation .
4 One of them landed in a field next to Bruce Arkell 's house , and he 's still finding pieces of wreckage .
5 Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin .
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