Example sentences of "[conj] still a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 2 | So it was just as well Old Red never allowed anyone on duty , including perhaps himself , to remember that he also was human — and still a good deal younger than General Francis . |
| 3 | Familiar with , which is basically the piece of legislation , which is still in force now and still a major problem for us , which is about getting Council Rent 's up to the level of private sector rent 's and forcing Council 's to do that . |
| 4 | Sheffield-born and daughter of a cutlery master , she was herself notably active , running an allotment and still a working cutler : a woman with ‘ plenty of initiative and business capacity . |
| 5 | An object may then become a conspicuous example of non-industrial production , such as the homespun Khadi cloth of India popularized by Gandhi as a symbol of Indian independence , and still a potent emblem for Indian political parties ( Bayly 1986 ) . |
| 6 | How could there be an English policy seriously at odds with British policy and still a British policy worthy of the name ? |
| 7 | Someone is doubtless fiftieth in line , and still a potential monarch , but with no supermarkets to open or ships to name , the rights have run out and the potential succession will be little more than a talking point . |
| 8 | They were drinking in the Red Anchor ; it was noon or just past , and still a full working day . |
| 9 | Now he was looking rumpled and approachable , thin and still a little yellow-tinged after the hepatitis . |
| 10 | Composed again , if still a little red in the face , I sat back and muttered apologies . |
| 11 | Grey stone and blue drapery , she thought , the whole thing rather shabby , not brightly painted like the other statues , but still a popish image . |
| 12 | For the mayor of that city it is less terrible but still a serious problem . |
| 13 | It was a farce , a terrible play , but still a real play because these two were acting out a charade of fright and face-saving and if he did anything to break the illusion that they were still taking decisions for themselves then he was going to get himself shot . |
| 14 | And my coat , my big army coat , which is forty years old now but still a good friend , and as strong as ever , became a remarkable sight . |
| 15 | It was almost directly in front of them but still a good distance away . |
| 16 | Needs more alcohol and spice , but still a good pudding . |
| 17 | He 's got two industrious midfielders , Mickey Lewis and Les Phillips , Steve McLaren , he plays these lovely beautiful long balls , Glen Hoddle style , but he 's a bit injury prone , but still a good player ; but this guy , he 's got a lot of promise , and we 've just got to wait and see — a baptism of fire at West Ham tomorrow . |
| 18 | Crusaders , enjoying their low profile these days but still a major threat for the title , are at home to Newry and will have forward John Cleary available again . |
| 19 | But still a long way to go . |
| 20 | They were now running alongside the wall , but still a long way from the crossing stile . |
| 21 | Tiepolo no less , before the artist had commanded the fortune of the present day , but still a great deal of money , even twenty years ago , when Brückner renovated the old mansion and started filling it with treasures . |
| 22 | ‘ When travelling in the country , you sense an enormous fear and anger at the present reforms ; in well-healed suburbs , there is approval of the reforms but still a great fear of the random violence they have released . ’ |
| 23 | The Cycladic islands had produced a good late Geometric , and their orientalising is finer and more varied than the East Greek but still a minor flowering . |
| 24 | It 's by no means excellent , but still a whole lot better than US Gold 's Masters of the Universe cartoon licence . |
| 25 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 26 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 27 | Less dangerous , but still a potential irritant , was the way in which this passionate interest in ceremonial could protract and complicate negotiations between states , especially when a number were involved . |
| 28 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 29 | Earlier in the century , while still a young man , he returned to England , disapproved of the climate , and finally bought a chalet in the south of France . |
| 30 | While still a young man in south Durham , he made the acquaintance of the mathematician William Emerson , the instrument-maker John Bird , and the natural philosopher Thomas Wright [ qq.v . ] . |