Example sentences of "still [verb] a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 2 | But when the Futurist painting manifestos appeared early in 1910 the work of the painters themselves still lacked a sense of direction . |
| 3 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 4 | Still got a bit of fire in them |
| 5 | I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff . |
| 6 | But as John still got a lot of work on , and Mary Ann ? |
| 7 | I think , however , that their use of it is still often confused and inhibited by mistaken ideas about what equality demands , and that the senseless ideal of standardisation still produces a waste of effort on this topic , as on many others . |
| 8 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 9 | This image is almost entirely man-made , save perhaps for the palm-tree , yet it still evokes a sense of paradise . |
| 10 | In this condition its mobility is severely hampered , but it still has a chance of survival if its environment is benign . |
| 11 | CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 . |
| 12 | I do n't expect it to match Love Story , but I think he still has a lot of mileage and is well worth supporting . |
| 13 | Yet the Commission says the industry still has a lot of life in it . |
| 14 | ‘ I would put Schmeichel in that group and at 27 he still has a lot of time to improve . ’ |
| 15 | But the house still needs a lot of work , and at present Ernest can not afford it . ’ |
| 16 | Yet this image , allowing for exaggeration , is not totally removed from the reality of prewar Japanese society , and the persistence of some of the same characteristics in the post-1945 period therefore means that such categorization still contains a measure of truth . |
| 17 | Cornwall still contains a lot of tin . |
| 18 | Progressive landlords still owned a lot of land and redistribution often did n't go to the poorest peasants but to peasants who were members of the Communist Party . |
| 19 | In the absence of such consent , the President might still introduce a state of emergency subject to ratification by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet . |
| 20 | The West Indian families have different values — they still put a lot of faith in education , but it 's the way they bring this home to the kids that causes the problems . |
| 21 | An older horse , even one into his teens , can still give a lot of fun . |
| 22 | She must be ill — perhaps she 's still got a bit of fever . ’ |
| 23 | The right one 's okay but the left one 's still got a bit of infection so they do n't really know |
| 24 | ‘ There 's one more — I think it 's still got a spark of life . ’ |
| 25 | If you have n't got any issue but parents or fore brother or sister or the issue of that say it 's your nephews or nieces and you 've still got a spouse of course , she still is n't get She or he is still not going to get the whole lot . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've still got a lot of work to do to win the replay but it 's great to get a result like that against a team which cost so much money . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 28 | If she was not his mother , she had still crammed a lot of mothering , good and bad , into the last few days . |
| 29 | Solid doors give privacy , while glazed versions allow light through , create a decorative screen and still give a feeling of space . |
| 30 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |