Example sentences of "be still [noun] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 But it is clear from decisions since Fleet Street Casuals in which standing has been denied that there are still limits to the rights of individuals to challenge government decisions .
2 The human spirit is trundled on to reassure them that they are still party to the heroic , which cynical people might think has departed the suburbs some time ago .
3 In the case of the EC , however , there is still resistance to a closer union , notably by Britain , in defence of what are conceived by governments at any particular time to be ‘ national interests ’ , and even if some form of supranational political organization were eventually achieved this might result , as some critics fear , in the emergence of another power bloc in the international arena , a ‘ Fortress Europe ’ , closed in particular to the Third World .
4 Hit for Six is full of statistical detail , but the number is still second to the moment and a fascination with the really big hit , the occasions when , as Mike Gatting told him : ‘ Something happens magically and the ball goes for miles , and you have no idea why or how . ’
5 If after that the prime manager finds that there is still opposition to a management plan , losses must be cut and the required action put in hand , come what may .
6 It can also be made to sound so sharp that any movement of the fretting hand on the strings causes a loud squeak , but even set with this much top there 's still quality to the tone .
7 In the 1950s the UK was still second to the USA for its share of world manufacturing exports and produced half the world 's export of motor cars .
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