Example sentences of "[be] still a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 're still a disgrace to the T'ang 's uniform , and if I can , I 'll break you . ’ |
| 2 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |
| 3 | At present doctors must prove at regular intervals that such patients are still a danger to society . |
| 4 | I 'm still a threat to him alive . ’ |
| 5 | As far as he 's concerned , I 'm still a threat to him . |
| 6 | To be a spinster is not quite the abnormality it was in Austen 's day , but it is still a fate to be avoided . |
| 7 | It is not unusual to find adult education centres , in the middle of provincial inner cities , for example , in which the majority of the provision is still a testimony to white , petit-bourgeois aspirations and hobbies , peopled by students who travel into classes by car from outside the immediate neighbourhood . |
| 8 | ‘ I am enjoying my job more than ever and there is still a lot to be done with PRCS , so all the speculation is a bit silly . ’ |
| 9 | Three points from the last four available after five straight defeats is the reward for the manager 's faith and the sudden realisation that the First Division beckoned has focused minds magnificently as Jefferies acknowledged when he said : ‘ There is still a lot to be done but if the players show the same attitude for the rest of the season we wo n't go down . |
| 10 | If there is no gatevalve in this supply , the cold water cistern will have to be drained : turn off the supply or tie up the ballvalve ( so that there is still a supply to the kitchen tap ) and open the upstairs cold water taps . |
| 11 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 12 | Although why anyone with a Silver Cloud needs to worry about things yielding up their secrets is still a mystery to me . |
| 13 | But the dispute also made it clear to President Chamorro that the Nicaraguan left is still a force to be reckoned with . |
| 14 | But there 's still a bill to be settle . |
| 15 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 16 | Obviously it 's nowhere near as deep or complicated as Bard 's Tale , but it 's still a force to be reckoned with — especially now you get the expansion set thrown in too . |
| 17 | Even if there was still a peace to be saved in 1940 , it seemed most unlikely that Labour would win the election . |
| 18 | Despite his age , Len Hatch was still a man to be reckoned with . |
| 19 | Certainly , he had to face the fact that a majority of the French population still supported the principle of integration and that there were immense risks involved in challenging integration head-on , especially since the malaise in the army was still a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 20 | At this period in his life , Auden was still a subscriber to the bundle of ideologies — leftist in politics , atheist in religion , Freudian in psychology — which went with being a 1930s intellectual . |
| 21 | The offer came , there was still a contract to be abrogated , but Lauda is Lauda : what he wants , he gets . |
| 22 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 23 | Sometimes she was still a stranger to him . |
| 24 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |