Example sentences of "still [verb] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 2 | His regular column on the London Literary Times had been axed , but the editor still chucked scraps of work his way . |
| 3 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |
| 4 | There 's not the same pressure on the dealing floor as at DPR , but you 'll still make loads of money . |
| 5 | She still has periods of withdrawal and sadness but they are decreasing . |
| 6 | One of the village pubs , the Cherry Tree still has mementos of festivities at the well ; including a vial of well water mixed with river-water from the Ganges brought over for centenary celebrations in 1964 . |
| 7 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |
| 8 | In most towns , however , the factory system was hardly evident and many urban workers seem to have been still keeping hold of Saint Monday as , almost , an accepted holiday in 1815 . |
| 9 | the participants for H Two will have already discovered , we are still tackling part of H One from yesterday , but , and I apologize that you will have to sit through the outstanding items of discussion . |
| 10 | Although he stressed that Sotheby 's had ceased their practice of guaranteeing items in January 1989 Mr Ainslie conceded that the company still owned works of art as a result of this policy . |
| 11 | They learn not to fear enclosed spaces , but still show signs of stress when stabled constantly . |
| 12 | Unity Trust itself wrote off £1 million in bad debts in 1992 , mainly on property development loans , but still made profits of £656,000 after two years in the red . |
| 13 | That is why you will still see caricatures of Sherlock Holmes in cartoons and advertisements in your newspaper , and that , too , is why the Great Detective , although unlikely to be a creation of your own , is worth some consideration . |
| 14 | Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived . |
| 15 | Five , fifteen , thirty five minutes six twenty , oh we 've still got bags of time then . |
| 16 | We , we 've still got piles of photographs have n't we , do you take many ? |
| 17 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 18 | The older people still tell stories of starvation , and corpses found in the gutter at dawn . |
| 19 | In a pillar crypt belonging to a building on the Gypsades Hill at Knossos , 200 small conical offering cups were found , still containing remains of vegetable matter . |
| 20 | What delight to behave really badly and still get loads of sympathy ! |
| 21 | They must still compete for more seats and they must still risk Points of Order . |
| 22 | Conservationists say policies to help wildlife would still cut overproduction of cereals . |
| 23 | He seemed to think it still contained traces of humanity , for he continued : |
| 24 | One of them landed in a field next to Bruce Arkell 's house , and he 's still finding pieces of wreckage . |
| 25 | Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp . |
| 26 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 27 | She still had hold of Adam , and gripped a little tighter ; then closed her eyes . |
| 28 | I still had memories of Delhi and Jaipur , of massive forts , Moghul tombs , of streets alive with turbanned figures , crowded with lumbering ox-carts and pungent with the smell of spices . |
| 29 | Similar to Fitzgerald , I had retreated a few patients months to years after their initial management , but one third of patients still had symptoms of constipation 6.8 ( 2.8 ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 30 | The Swedes ' 3-1 victory over Albania yesterday left Robson mildly disappointed but England still had control of Group Two , he said . |