Example sentences of "still [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still recovering from the shock of that earlier bout of jealousy . |
| 2 | In the case of the London Metal Exchange ( LME ) , still recovering from the collapse of the tin market in 1985 , this involved a major restructuring , including the introduction of new transparency and clearing systems . |
| 3 | He turned and left , ignoring the shouts and screams of the small wet attendant as — after the under-cook had gathered the other scullions round , pointed to the cauldron , the ladle and its own belly before nodding at the wet attendant — the kicking , howling creature was grabbed by the same scullions who had recently been comforting it , hoisted up the ladder still resting against the side of the great vat , and thrown back in . |
| 4 | The landlord of the Portway Hotel is still mulling over the meaning of the find : |
| 5 | As she walked , her mind was still puzzling over the mystery of Moloch 's peculiar ecology . |
| 6 | Science is still puzzling on the handedness of all sub-units of protein and nucleic acid in earthborn living cells . |
| 7 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 8 | Then — a stroke of luck — she cut in front of a white family still cooing over the colour of the water , and managed to sling her bag into an arriving boat . |
| 9 | Many welfare lobbyists and pressure groups are still struggling with the legacy of the Thatcher years , especially the Fowler reviews and the 1986 Social Security Act changes . |
| 10 | De La Rue , still struggling despite the sale of Crosfield printers , props up the table , with a fall of 28p virtually wiping out earnings . |
| 11 | Oxford are still struggling near the bottom of Division one . |
| 12 | Still fumbling with the clasp of her bag , she gasped , ‘ No , Marcus . |
| 13 | This was substantially enacted by the Misrepresentation Act 1967 ( see also pp. 124–5 ) , and now the court may treat a contract as still subsisting despite the existence of innocent misrepresentation , and award damages to the injured party , instead of rescinding the contract . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , as late as the 1740s , the British government was still contributing to the cost of housing the now permanent Russian representatives in London at a rate proportional to their diplomatic rank — £200 a year for ministers-resident , £400 for envoys or ambassadors . |
| 15 | The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV . |
| 16 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 17 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 18 | But the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railway companies were criticized for their poor provision of workmen 's trains in 1892 and a parliamentary select committee was still pressing for the provision of cheap trains for workers in 1905 . |
| 19 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 20 | After all , the Whigs were still acting within the framework of assumptions commonly held by the ruling class then and tacitly accepted by the great majority of a generally deferential lower class , assumptions which attached privilege — and responsibility — to property . |
| 21 | The second shot , fired while the gun was still bucking from the recoil of the first , went wild . |
| 22 | ‘ County Durham 's constabulary has been increased since 1979 and the Home Office is still looking at the possibility of reallocating some of the 1,000 extra posts to the county , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Computing had the third highest percentage in work , but was average in terms on those still looking at the end of their courses . |
| 24 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 25 | Kersey asked : ‘ Are we still looking for the killer of Matthew Glynn ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I like to think my experience is a vital factor in midfield because obviously the side is still developing with the introduction of new players . |
| 27 | Some reports put this around 1880 , but others claim the mill was still operating at the turn of the 20th century . |
| 28 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 29 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |
| 30 | For a man like this , still living in the midst of the work which had been his life , retirement had none of its typical contemporary implications : he retained his technical authority along with his social networks and his familiar surroundings . |