Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] a [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 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sir Roger was still recovering from a bad car accident just before Christmas . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | From Old Stratford to Towcester it still goes in a straight line for 8½ miles . |
| 19 | They are still struggling under a huge burden of debt . |
| 20 | Scottish & Newcastle ( McEwans and Youngers beers , Newcastle Brown ) have a relatively low holding of tied public houses ( which are mainly in Scotland and the North East ) , but still account for a significant proportion of total beer sales , partly through sales to free houses and partly through the strong position of their brands in the off-licence trade . |
| 21 | In the present generations of younger women , very few never marry so this particular source of family care has almost dried up , although there is evidence that never-married women still account for a disproportionate number of unpaid carers ( Finch and Groves , 1980 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Responding to criticism from neighbouring countries , including Russia , the Chinese authorities said that they had always exercised restraint in nuclear testing and that China was still committed to a complete ban on nuclear testing within the framework of effective nuclear disarmament . |
| 23 | Only Cuba stood out as still committed to a state-led economy although private capital was involved in the development of such areas as tourism [ see p. 38141 ] . |
| 24 | After all , despite the success of Mossad , Israel still lives in a perpetual state of fear and terrorism . |
| 25 | £5.5m Former model turned singer Sam Fox makes the richest women charts with a £5.5 m fortune — but she still lives in a humble flat |
| 26 | Their generating capacity , however , still lies to a significant extent in coal-fired generation . |
| 27 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 28 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
| 29 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
| 30 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |