Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 2 | THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week ( 26 April 1986 ) is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus . |
| 3 | It does n't seem fair that women put in just as much effort , dedication and time as men , and are still treated in a second-class fashion . |
| 4 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 5 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 6 | Perhaps the dominant account still belongs to the Whig interpretation of history . |
| 7 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 8 | Sir Henry was still shaken by the terrible cry we had heard on the moor . |
| 9 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 10 | Her face was still pressed against the shimmering fabric on his chest . |
| 11 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 13 | Llewellyn , who is attached to the Tim Forster stable , was really third choice for the mount on Party Politics , as injured Andrew Adams , 27 , was still recovering from a broken knee , and Richard Dunwoody , who had also ridden the gelding , was committed to Brown Windsor . |
| 14 | Mick Lyons has departed the scene , All Ireland captain Liam Hayes is still recovering from a broken arm , although one of the sport 's enduring personalities Colm O'Rourke has rejoined the squad after a 10 month absence . |
| 15 | Sir Roger was still recovering from a bad car accident just before Christmas . |
| 16 | One of Ibrahim 's former Jewish tenants still lived on the second floor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 19 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 20 | Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too ! |
| 21 | If you 're not really overweight but still suffer with a little sponginess and skin slackening , try Clarins Firming Body Cream , £20.40/200ml , with stimulating rosemary , sage and mint extracts . |
| 22 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 23 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 24 | Leibniz , unaccountably , still clung to the traditional idea of substance , notwithstanding his own " principle of indiscernibles " . |
| 25 | Farming in this part of France was still regarded as a full-time job and of those visited only one farmer 's wife worked part-time . |
| 26 | The disparity of provision partly reflects the lack of understanding by teachers of the purpose of a school library , and ways in which it should be used in the curriculum , so that it is still regarded as a peripheral concern , a room open for pupils in the lunch hour and for English lessons for children to borrow books . |
| 27 | In classical Greece and Rome , wild nature was still regarded as a fearsome opponent , populated in folklore by an array of monstrous ogres , demons and other equally menacing supernatural beings . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that the state system of education is over 100 years old , it is still regarded as a fundamental duty of parenthood to educate one 's child . |
| 29 | The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country . |
| 30 | The most hazardous of all forms of patronage for the political manager was the presentation of a minister to a parish , for unless there was general agreement among the heritors and other parishioners , strong feelings were likely to be aroused in a church where patronage was still regarded as an alien intrusion without scriptural authority . |