Example sentences of "still [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five gates still guarded the only entrances through the mud walls , inside which , among the warren of alleyways and flat-roofed mud houses , Balcha 's soldiers had in 1916 massacred the Muslim population . |
| 2 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 3 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |
| 4 | Could I say that we 'd be willing perhaps that the Conservative amendment first of all , and then to turn to the amendment by the Liberal democrats erm I would like to suggest that schools or other charities , not just schools are exempt from any registration charge but will still notify the local authority in , in advance of an event , because events held at schools or by charities still create problems with traffic and parking and congestion |
| 5 | At the end of the War , around a half of British households still lacked a fixed bath with hot , running water , but electricity played a part in changing this ( whether as the only heat source or as summer immersion heating to complement water heating by the more common coal-fired back boilers ) . |
| 6 | It was a shock , but while there were those who still lacked the Christian faith , it was a necessary shock . |
| 7 | In presidential and legislative elections held in May 1989 [ see pp. 36651-52 ] Menem defeated Eduardo César Angeloz of the UCR , and the Peronists became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies , although they still lacked an absolute majority . |
| 8 | you still got a stiff neck ? |
| 9 | We still got a big pile to stick in have n't |
| 10 | still got the real interest there |
| 11 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 12 | Galleries should be avoided , to get away from the idea of a theatre with an audience watching an actor but the pulpit must still remain the central feature . |
| 13 | She retains a liveliness of mind which is quite extraordinary under the circumstances and she still displays a keen sense of humour and a warmth of contact despite the fact that she has to use a machine . |
| 14 | who still taste the holy ghost in rain , or |
| 15 | While other road going sports tend towards high-visibility clothing , riders still favour the natural country colours . |
| 16 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 17 | But he still conveyed an easy-going personality and had a deceptively casual acting style that differed from Dustin 's volatile nature and the nervous intensity he invested in each role . |
| 18 | Evangelicals and others in the mid-nineteenth century still placed the central responsibility for the upbringing of children upon the family . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | It does , on any count , seem extraordinary that thirty years after de Pomiane 's heyday , the dispiriting progress from soup to fish , from fish to meat and on , remorselessly on , to salad , cheese , a piece of pastry , a crème caramel or an ice cream , still constitutes the standard menu throughout the entire French-influenced world of hotels and catering establishments . |
| 21 | More nobly ornamented and furnished then the castles they replaced , these houses still shared the abysmal sanitation of the latter , with poor privies and rush-strewn floors . |
| 22 | Music still plays a large part in his life and one of the great thrills of filming Consenting Adults was the opportunity to jam with Atlanta blues musicians . |
| 23 | We do not have to go quite so far afield to find another language which still plays a considerable part in our daily conversation . |
| 24 | Among many other floatplane types , Beech 18s , Beavers , Otters , Cessnas etc that operate from Red Lake , the Norseman still plays a vital role . |
| 25 | Durkheim 's investigations into religion , with their historic results , were prompted by the fact that he saw religion as the major source of values and , despite increasing secularisation , religion still plays an influential role in society 's moral codes . |
| 26 | The musical tradition of Free Churches originated in the singing of metrical psalms by the whole congregation , and psalm-singing still plays an important part in their worship . |
| 27 | In Central South we 're landlocked but boating still plays an important part in our leisure and local economy … so let's set sail to London to see the show |
| 28 | There are larger fish , particularly in Loch Rannoch , and since the end of the nineteenth century there are records of huge trout being caught , fish of up to 22lb ; most seasons Rannoch still produces the odd monster . |
| 29 | The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague . |
| 30 | Ireland still produces the famous Donegal carpets . |