Example sentences of "[subord] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson 's increasing celebrity , albeit still confined to the music industry , had become a selling point in itself . |
| 2 | Joyce became a part-time tutor at a creamer 's , while still participating in the social life of his peers . |
| 3 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 4 | As the title of this paper shows , I am sure that we can not hope to do this rethinking while still clinging to the currently orthodox view that there are no natural , genetically determined sex differences . |
| 5 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 6 | His kisses had gentled out when suddenly , while still staying on the mattress with her , he moved away from her . |
| 7 | The ILP had opened negotiations with the Communist Party for joint agitation on " immediate demands " while still affiliated to the Labour Party . |
| 8 | You know how some sports cars manage to look like they are doing about a hundred miles while still parked at the kerb ? |
| 9 | While still working on the second volume of the Society 's guidebook , at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 16 June 1830 , he applied to undertake a series of drawings of the parrot collection . |
| 10 | As implied by his reference to wearing Messel 's costumes , John had begun by May , while still working at the Sadler 's Wells School , to appear in the corps de ballet at Covent Garden , although only in The Sleeping Beauty which needed a large cast . |
| 11 | However , while still working in the darkroom , he gained second spot in the 1979 Northern Sports Photographer of the Year competition . |
| 12 | A virtually foolproof method , since one roots potential cuttings while still attached to the parent plant . |
| 13 | The egg then germinates while still attached to the parent plant and produces the next asexual generation — a thin stem with , at its tip , a hollow capsule . |
| 14 | By developing these devices in the light of modern technology , Brooke-Rose is able to circumvent the conventions of realism while still remaining within the bounds of what is accepted as novelistic . |
| 15 | The Parliamentary Labour Party , despite its greatly reduced numbers , was not prepared to return to the previous Standing Orders which had allowed the ILP to put forward a distinct policy in Parliament while still remaining within the Labour Group . |
| 16 | Whilst still employed by the plaintiffs , B was told by that company 's patent agents of a foreign invention of a product similar to that of the plaintiffs . |
| 17 | A method or approach to working together has been devised with the explicit intention of creating a relationship and setting in motion a process which supports the moves towards normalisation whilst still tallying with the emergence of self-advocacy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If that immunity ought properly to be overridden in light of the countervailing public interest arising , then in our view that countervailing interest will outweigh too such limited value as still attaches to the implied undertaking . |
| 20 | Monkey Shines ( Orion , 1988 ) was to be Romero 's first Hollywood venture , though still shot in the Pittsburgh area . |
| 21 | Less than a year later the Technical Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) was announced , and this , though still organized by the MSC , was a scheme that started with pupils at school , in the last two years before their compulsory attendance at school came to an end , and continued until they were 18 . |
| 22 | This objective , though still sought as the panacea for all stratigraphical ills , has caused many of the problems that afflict us today . |
| 23 | Jones 's team produced a new , more comprehensive plan which , though still based on the CEGB 's tiny ( two-mile radius ) evacuation zone , could be expected to run a lot more efficiently than its predecessor . |
| 24 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 25 | With the help of a few sure-fire successes brought over from ITV , it gradually established itself , though still subsidized by the sub-scriptions . |
| 26 | The left wing , though still attached to the fuselage , had been almost completely sheared off between the inner engine and the fuselage and was angled back about thirty degrees from normal . |