Example sentences of "and still [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are young and still living within the family it is often hard to acknowledge that you are sexually active and need to take some precautions . |
| 2 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 3 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 4 | Gaitskell ( now dominating Labour 's economic policy and still smarting from the defeat over Clow ) cut the allocations to electricity more than to the other fuel industries ( which the planners felt could meet energy demand at less capital cost ) . |
| 5 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 6 | Slowly but surely Carter are on the move again , still pertinent and still clinging to the plot . |
| 7 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 8 | Her hand rose to her lips , soft and still tingling from the hard pressure of his possessive mouth . |
| 9 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 10 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |