Example sentences of "[noun sg] was still a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But twenty minutes later , as the big car swung off the motorway and began to thread its way along country roads , her mind was still a blank . |
| 2 | From the tone of these comments it is easy to see that , for Nietzsche , Wagner 's work was still a problem in urgent need of a solution . " |
| 3 | It was reported on Aug. 3 that the Supreme Court of New South Wales had awarded damages of A$2,850,000 ( US$2,224,500 ) to a teenage girl who had sued her mother for negligence committed whilst the girl was still a foetus . |
| 4 | In the days when contraception was still a rarity , every husband knew , if he chose to think of it , that by sleeping with his wife he might imperil her life . |
| 5 | To my right was still a morass of broken glass , brickbats and son-of-metal-pipe ( good things always happen in pairs do n't you find ? ) , all under three inches of water . |
| 6 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 7 | Poverty was still a dread . |
| 8 | His body was still a rainbow of bruises . |
| 9 | Second , it supported Marshal Piłsudski 's May 1926 coup d'etat in the belief that the Marshal was still a socialist . |
| 10 | Her head was still a foot from the top . |
| 11 | Actual evidence was still a bit short on the ground ( burning the vicious letter to Jacqui and the Sweet photographs had shown a regrettable lack of detective instinct ) . |
| 12 | But when she woke up in the morning , the frog was still a frog . |
| 13 | Although he began life with a number of advantages , not least middle-class parents , his route from Shotts to the Cabinet was still a lot more difficult than most of his Government colleagues . |
| 14 | Despite the establishment of a quango for the universities , the extent of their " national " role was still a matter of controversy , and for this reason discourses on the national education could not , without some difficulty , be made to coexist with those on the university curriculum . |
| 15 | Democracy was still an idea in the minds of China 's students but their leaders had other priorities . |
| 16 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 17 | This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand . |
| 18 | Then , as now , the smell of Gauloises would immediately evoke Paris , and to one accustomed , as I then was , to Players or Craven A , a French cigarette was still a novelty . |
| 19 | The man was still a spectator , walking slowly towards the action , now , but without having made any kind of a decision . |
| 20 | They had a generally depressive effect on domestic rice prices , and threatened to undermine the prosperity of the majority of domestic farmers for whom rice was still a staple crop . |
| 21 | His press secretary even said that the Soviet Union was still a superpower — not at all what the cheerleaders think . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The 42-year-old sports writer interviewed the Chelsea boss six weeks ago when their blossoming affair was still a secret . |
| 24 | And on this third day the whole thing was still a blur . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 27 | He gave me an orange card that advertised his status as PROFESSIONAL SURFER. but he was still a child at heart and surfing was still a game . |
| 28 | Her ankle was still a shade painful , but it was bearing her weight . |
| 29 | However , fragmentation was still a problem ( a result of the separate development system . |
| 30 | West Berlin 's existence was still a thorn in the side of the Soviets , but Khruschev can have had little real hope that the West would abandon it . |