Example sentences of "still [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 2 | His regular column on the London Literary Times had been axed , but the editor still chucked scraps of work his way . |
| 3 | Even if firms were completely market orientated , they would still make errors of judgement from time to time . |
| 4 | There 's not the same pressure on the dealing floor as at DPR , but you 'll still make loads of money . |
| 5 | She still has periods of withdrawal and sadness but they are decreasing . |
| 6 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |
| 7 | In most towns , however , the factory system was hardly evident and many urban workers seem to have been still keeping hold of Saint Monday as , almost , an accepted holiday in 1815 . |
| 8 | Although he stressed that Sotheby 's had ceased their practice of guaranteeing items in January 1989 Mr Ainslie conceded that the company still owned works of art as a result of this policy . |
| 9 | They learn not to fear enclosed spaces , but still show signs of stress when stabled constantly . |
| 10 | Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived . |
| 11 | Five , fifteen , thirty five minutes six twenty , oh we 've still got bags of time then . |
| 12 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 13 | The older people still tell stories of starvation , and corpses found in the gutter at dawn . |
| 14 | In a pillar crypt belonging to a building on the Gypsades Hill at Knossos , 200 small conical offering cups were found , still containing remains of vegetable matter . |
| 15 | What delight to behave really badly and still get loads of sympathy ! |
| 16 | They must still compete for more seats and they must still risk Points of Order . |
| 17 | He seemed to think it still contained traces of humanity , for he continued : |
| 18 | One of them landed in a field next to Bruce Arkell 's house , and he 's still finding pieces of wreckage . |
| 19 | Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp . |
| 20 | Similar to Fitzgerald , I had retreated a few patients months to years after their initial management , but one third of patients still had symptoms of constipation 6.8 ( 2.8 ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 21 | The Swedes ' 3-1 victory over Albania yesterday left Robson mildly disappointed but England still had control of Group Two , he said . |
| 22 | When , in 1884 , he resumed his medical studies at Edinburgh University , he still had pieces of weapon embedded in his thigh until they were removed by John Chiene , professor of surgery , to whom Morrison subsequently dedicated his book , An Australian in China ( 1895 ) , for restoring his ‘ power of locomotion ’ . |
| 23 | The main food reserve of preparasitic nematode larvae , whether inside the egg shell or free-living , is lipid which may be seen as droplets in the lumen of the intestine ; the infectivity of these stages is often related to the amount present , in that larvae which have depleted their reserves are not as infective as those which still retain quantities of lipid . |
| 24 | Even after the Man City pitch invasion against Spurs , they still serve bottles of beer at the burger bar . |
| 25 | Those living in the interregnum between school and marriage often still harboured dreams of success , although real-life was closing in quickly . |
| 26 | And who had still achieved peace of mind . |
| 27 | Agosti still faced charges of involvement in the 1976 coup which overthrew President María Estela ( Isabelita ) de Martínez Perón [ see pp. 27741-43 ] , but military trials had been effectively suspended in April 1989 when the Supreme Court decided to examine the documentation pertaining to all cases involving military officers accused of human rights abuses in 1976-83 . |
| 28 | 11 After another 2 miles ( e ) path enters woods ( f ) ; take any of a number of criss-cross paths , still following line of river , emerging at road 1 mile later . |
| 29 | The review , which covered 142 of the world 's 178 countries showed that in 1991 , 65 countries still held prisoners of conscience , while the use of " disappearance " as a tactic for eliminating political opponents had been substantiated in 26 countries . |
| 30 | Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin . |