Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 2 | Although the seventeenth century saw the beginning of the end of magic in western society , some credence was still given to the supposed therapeutic properties of certain precious substances . |
| 3 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 4 | Perhaps the dominant account still belongs to the Whig interpretation of history . |
| 5 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 6 | English Shakespeare Company , Darlington Civic Theatre A RATHER timid audience still shaken from the English Shakespeare Company 's new version of Macbeth ventured along to the opening night of the old romantic favourite Twelfth Night , apprehensive at what was in store this time around . |
| 7 | Sir Henry was still shaken by the terrible cry we had heard on the moor . |
| 8 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 9 | Her face was still pressed against the shimmering fabric on his chest . |
| 10 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 11 | Britain by comparison still relied on the democratic traditions of local government , as fictionally portrayed in Winifred Holtby 's South Riding ( 1936 ) . |
| 12 | Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do . |
| 13 | One of Ibrahim 's former Jewish tenants still lived on the second floor . |
| 14 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 15 | Very few Russian nobles moved west , but " in 1858 the majority of the nobles in the Russian Empire … still lived in the nine western gubernii [ provinces ] " . |
| 16 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 17 | he was still mulling over the coloured filters . |
| 18 | But the Dutchman is smart enough to know that even though the practice session at the stadium went well , his strike-force still suffer from the age-old Irish problem . |
| 19 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |
| 20 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 21 | Leibniz , unaccountably , still clung to the traditional idea of substance , notwithstanding his own " principle of indiscernibles " . |
| 22 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 23 | One librarian who still clung to the old ideals remarked : |
| 24 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 25 | Social liberals , like Booth and Rowntree , and Fabians , like Sydney and Beatrice Webb , may have differed in their views on the extent and the permanence of the provision of state welfare that they advocated , but shared an interest in what they saw as the factual demonstration of the extent of poverty which existed in what was still regarded as the major industrial and political power . |
| 26 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 27 | Today he lives in the Eastern Thai town of Trat and , although officially retired , is still regarded as the overall leader of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 28 | During the war , the conical Triumph nib arrived , still regarded as the finest nib ever made . |
| 29 | With justice , his book is still regarded as the soundest narrative account of the war available to English-speaking readers . |
| 30 | She was still struggling with the short introduction when her husband entered , bearing a breakfast tray . |