Example sentences of "[was/were] still [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still splinters of glass gleaming on Maggie 's shoulders and high flat breasts . |
| 2 | Yet these were still redistributions of role and authority within working professional companies . |
| 3 | In his late teens , there were still signs of puppy fat , and his rounded face sat under an unruly head of hair trimmed to the current style , though not especially trendy , and he could be lost in a crowd as being just another boy on the block ; unassuming and unspecial . |
| 4 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 5 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 6 | These were still days of innovation . |
| 7 | Despite this level of support , and a direct request from James Baker when he was still secretary of state , Mr Karimov has refused to register Birlik as a political party . |
| 8 | If only it had come while he was still Emperor of Agriculture House … |