Example sentences of "still [v-ing] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 2 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |
| 3 | Couples , second in the Sony rankings to Faldo , is still coming to terms with the adulation heaped on him after Augusta but is prepared to run the gauntlet again if it means winning a second Major . |
| 4 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 5 | Woking , who knocked out West Brom two seasons ago , are still coming to terms with their first season in the Conference , but their Cup-fighting instincts are sure to resurface for their trip to Brighton . |
| 6 | This is when the pupil is still coming to terms with using a low vision aid and is not yet skilful in its use , but needs to read text and notes that are too advanced in content to be available in the large print of junior and early reading books . |
| 7 | ‘ We are , he said , at the initial stages , still coming to terms with what we need to do . ’ |
| 8 | The local community is still coming to terms with the loss of the Trident contract four months ago . |
| 9 | Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy . |
| 10 | They 're still coming to terms with it . |
| 11 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 12 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 13 | Staff are still coming to terms with the decision to close the main part of the Junction factory within two years , making 100 workers redundant . |
| 14 | Sansom , capped 86 times for England , was still talking to friends in the players ' bar at Stockport County last night when the rest of the squad left on the team bus after their 2-1 aggregate victory . |