Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Composed again , if still a little red in the face , I sat back and muttered apologies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ] . |
| 5 | While still a young man he entered the Benedictine priory of Christ Church in Canterbury . |
| 6 | While still a medical student Winnicott discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and decided that psychoanalysis should become a part of his professional life ; thus the year 1923 saw also the beginning of a ten-year training analysis with James Strachey . |
| 7 | In January 1919 , while still an able seaman , he accepted an almost chance offer of a tutorship in modern history at St Edmund Hall , Oxford . |
| 8 | This is generally recognized as still an upmarket sector but is growing by about 5 per cent per year . |
| 9 | An indicator is the abundance of the rare isotope of hydrogen , deuterium D , compared to the common isotope 1 H. D is twice the mass of 1 H and therefore 1 H will normally escape faster , enhancing D/ 1 H. The D/ 1 H ratio in the Cytherean atmosphere today is about 100 times that on the Earth , indicating more 1 H on Venus in the past , though still a good deal less than on the Earth . |
| 10 | Later , Anthony Eden , by that time in the Cabinet as Minister of the League of Nations Affairs though still a Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs , went to Rome with the intent of offering Abyssinia territory in Somaliland in return for conceding some of its own territory to Italy . |
| 11 | By the tenth century slaves were rarely to be found in France or Germany ; they were a minority , though still a substantial minority , in England ; they were still common in southern Europe ( see pp. 84–6 ) . |
| 12 | However , by early Tudor times this had changed , and strangers , though still a substantial element , were generally less in evidence than in rural parts , while natives show few signs of having flocked in to replace them . |