Example sentences of "be still [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , er , and we 're still achieving the same job at a lot higher standard . |
| 2 | Yeah no but I mean passive smoking is just that 's , that 's , that 's the way that self erm s smoking is so selfish because you ca n't get away , you know , whether you 're not smoking or not you 're still getting the worst from it . |
| 3 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 4 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 5 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 6 | No , they 're still fighting the good fight . |
| 7 | No , you 're still paying the same , it 's just |
| 8 | The analysts have now downgraded their inflation forecasts for the rest of this year , but many are still expecting the underlying rate to creep back up to the top of the Chancellor 's target range of 4 per cent and above this summer . |
| 9 | Health service staff and managers are still developing the new skills and the framework necessary to offer a quality community care service . |
| 10 | With one hand people are placing children while on the other hand they are still encouraging the natural parents to think there 's some chance of having them back ! |
| 11 | Thus we are still using the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection , but the entities to which we are applying it are populations , or species , and not individuals as in most applications of the idea . |
| 12 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |
| 13 | Of course , we are still receiving the odd British shell dropping in the orchard . |
| 14 | After the initial whisky or gin and tonic move on to plain ginger ale or tonic water with ice and lemon which will give the impression , if necessary , that you are still drinking the real thing . |
| 15 | He and the mother are still telling the same story . |
| 16 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 17 | But while they are determined to make hay while the sun shines , farmers are still watching the monetary horizons for the clouds of revaluation and are ready to scamper for figurative shelter if the rains of realignment fall . |
| 18 | Please note that we have been able to incorporate our successful appeals into these figures but we are still awaiting the national post-appeal figures . |
| 19 | Hills are still offering the magnificent odds of 1–7 on , because , according to their spokesperson , Man U have a habit of buggering it all up ( Heh , heh , heh — do n't we know ) |
| 20 | Recipes for disaster will probably take the following form : the ticket will say 7.15 pm for 7.45 pm , and at 8.30 pm ‘ the lads ’ are still attacking the free bar . |
| 21 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
| 22 | We are still punishing the Vietnamese long after it is clear they were not victors in any real sense . |
| 23 | After we had drunk the coffee , Kelly said , ‘ Do you notice that I 'm still wearing the blue boots you gave me for my birthday ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'm still using the standard setup : five strings on the treble , five strings on the bass and a range of five and a quarter octaves . |
| 25 | The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future . |
| 26 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 27 | The Allied guns were still shelling the German positions and there was a lot of activity going on . |
| 28 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |
| 29 | Most of them , according to contemporary accounts , were still using the same crude methods and homely remedies that were popular 100 years before . |
| 30 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |