Example sentences of "[was/were] still [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 2 | But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia . |
| 3 | A few miles further on they left the motorway , although they were still following a main road . |
| 4 | If Great Britain were still to play a significant role in military operations in Europe , massed levies would be needed . |
| 5 | Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride . |
| 6 | Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie . |
| 7 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 8 | Even with the resignation in his pocket , Baldwin was still facing a nasty prospect in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | She was still trembling a little inside , and the thought of staying here in this house on her own made her nervous . |
| 10 | However , when the two letters to be matched were presented simultaneously , rather than successively , the pattern of results differed for the two visual fields in such a way as to suggest that the right hemisphere was still using a visually-based strategy while the left hemisphere was using an acoustically based strategy . |
| 11 | But as the West German cities of Bremen and Hanover said they could take no more refugees , Berlin was still offering a warm welcome . |
| 12 | Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her . |
| 13 | The dark , blue-black serpentine which had been popular before was still used a great deal , but now new materials were tried out as well — alabaster , gypsum , limestone , marble and breccia — and some extremely hard rocks like porphyry . |