Example sentences of "[was/were] still [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown and his team were still on the road south . |
| 2 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 3 | By the beginning of May prices had steadied , although they were still below the OPEC reference price of $18 per barrel , but by the end of the month prices again dropped , reflecting the uncertainty about the scale of OPEC 's output cuts . |
| 4 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 5 | The second concerned the shops ; ‘ They were still like a jumble sale inside with everything crammed on the rails . ’ |
| 6 | I soon felt as if the entire audience were lying on top of me — and the band were still in the dressing room . |
| 7 | We were still in the Air Force , postings could come out of the blue at any time , so every hour we could spend together was important . |
| 8 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , three weeks ago , Heriot 's lost a friendly by 50 points at Poynder Park and before the start of Saturday 's game , they were still in the relegation zone . |
| 10 | And of course the main printing-offices were still near the town centre and the main railway station . |
| 11 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 12 | Baika , which was still at the drawing board stage when the Japanese surrendered on September 2 , 1945 was to have been powered by a Maru athoyd ( pulse-jet ) which was expected to give the aircraft a top speed of 366mph in level flight , depending on warhead size ( between 220lb and 550lb ) . |
| 13 | Prehistoric was still at the editing stage . |
| 14 | He could n't forget he 'd been an Army sergeant , he talked like one and acted as if he was still on a parade ground or something . |
| 15 | Nathan was still on the coach roof lashing the reefed mainsail to stop it chafing . |
| 16 | Master Benjamin was still on the convent wall , peering into the darkness . |
| 17 | The only saving grace was that the number Quinn had dictated down the line to Zack was still on the Kensington exchange . |
| 18 | There are no records after these but he was still on the island shooting and during the war commanded the Islay Home Guard . |
| 19 | The two-way radio Hitch had been using was still on the passenger seat . |
| 20 | I was still under a care order so the Social Services put me in a hostel . |
| 21 | Two new volumes commissioned while it was still under the Penguin name are Painting and Sculpture in France 1700–1789 by Sir Michael Levey which is an entirely rewritten version of the paintings section of the French eighteenth-century paintings and sculpture volume published in the 1970s and The Pictorial Arts of the West 800–1200 by Reginald Dodwell . |
| 22 | He was still in a silk robe , in his office , staring dully at the grey morning beyond the windows . |
| 23 | But the unrepentant former boxer was still in a fighting mood last night — if not exactly smelling of roses . |
| 24 | Buzz was still in an Eastbourne hospital . |
| 25 | He was still in the Variety Tent , sitting on one of the rickety chairs . |
| 26 | That hoard of words was still in the biscuit tin at the back of the buffet . |
| 27 | The door was n't locked , and the simularity crystal was still in the desk reader . |
| 28 | He was actually in on the design and setting up of this hospital when Ocean Empress was still in the commissioning stage a few years back . |
| 29 | I was still in the news room , though , and near enough to hear one of my own colleagues respond to a video of Terry Anderson in captivity with a dismissive , ‘ We 're not running that ; it 's not newsworthy ’ , as he tossed the cassette to one side . |
| 30 | She must have , for it was late then , the pubs long closed , and she was still in the city centre . |