Example sentences of "[be] still [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This means that the state spent something in the region of DFl.100 million on the roughly 2000 artists covered by the scheme between 1984 and 1987 , and most of these works are still with the artists ’ estimates Blote . |
| 2 | He did not disclose the substance of the Libyan suggestions but a delegate at the meeting told Reuters : ‘ Libya 's proposals are still along the lines of its known positions , that the two could be tried only in a third country and not in the United States or Britain . ’ |
| 3 | However , the drums are still on the oceans beds , and many are starting to leak . |
| 4 | The team is gradually beginning to take ona more familiar look although Duncan Ferguson , John Brown and Andy Goram are still on the sidelines . |
| 5 | In the meantime organization changes of a management kind have been put into action at Eastley , so that certain , certain changes very quickly can be made which reflect the spirit of the report for improved management but your officers and Council are still considering the items that they feel n er should be reconsidered refined and developed . |
| 6 | Such a situation could only come about if researchers are encouraged to at least prepare for publication , if not to actually publish , papers on their research whilst they are still in the environs of the university . |
| 7 | Such a situation could only come about if researchers are encouraged to at least prepare for publication , if not to actually publish , papers on their research whilst they are still in the environs of the university . |
| 8 | ‘ Those who return will go back to an increasingly tolerable life and they will send messages back to those who are still in the camps and that will reinforce the voluntary return . ’ |
| 9 | Many of the great fortunes in this country are still in the hands of the landed aristocracy who tend to be preoccupied with maintaining their great estates and country houses , no doubt feeling that opening them to the public is in itself a form of patronage . |
| 10 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 11 | But we are still in the semi-finals and that 's all that counts . |
| 12 | Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles . |
| 13 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 14 | But I could n't — when I arrived there was no door , the boards were still on the windows , there was no electricity and no cooking facilities , only cold black floors and dog shit . |
| 15 | Some of them were still on the streets . |
| 16 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 17 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 18 | You two behaved as if we were still in the sticks . |
| 19 | It was taken from there by the murderer , while you were still in the wings , in your shirt-sleeves , feeding Micky his lines through the deaf-aid . |
| 20 | Bunny had finished his beer and the two ladies were still in the Ladies , or had escaped without him seeing how . |
| 21 | Western societies were still in the throes of an idealistic phase during which radical change seemed possible and very real social progress on the cards — the major advances in social legislation ( the legalization of divorce , abortion , and homosexuality , for example ) were all born in this age of this spirit . |
| 22 | It had to be or how was it that all the banks , shops , factories and insurance companies were still in the hands of Jews ? |
| 23 | They were still in the trees . |
| 24 | This means that Peter Finnerty , one of the most experienced players in the Galway squad , is still on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 25 | Downing Street sources made little attempt to choke off intense speculation among MPs that a limited Cabinet shake-up is still on the cards . |
| 26 | ‘ She is still in the ladies ’ department . ’ |
| 27 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 28 | Some of the original coloured glass is still in the windows . |
| 29 | 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest . |
| 30 | Niazy 's letter clearing Mrs Paleschi is still in the hands of her Egyptian lawyer , Abdul Raoul Mardi . |