Example sentences of "still [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't seem fair that women put in just as much effort , dedication and time as men , and are still treated in a second-class fashion . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 3 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 4 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 5 | This was another , remote area of the complex which had remained untouched by Roirbak 's artistic caprices , and was still furnished in a bare , functional style . |
| 6 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 7 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 8 | 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 ] " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From Old Stratford to Towcester it still goes in a straight line for 8½ miles . |
| 13 | Oh , oh , well he 's still reversing , he 's waving his arm about for everyone to overtake him but , he still sits in the same position oh dear |
| 14 | After all , despite the success of Mossad , Israel still lives in a perpetual state of fear and terrorism . |
| 15 | £5.5m Former model turned singer Sam Fox makes the richest women charts with a £5.5 m fortune — but she still lives in a humble flat |
| 16 | Spiro , whose mother still lives in a comfortable first floor flat in Golders Green , had the best education money could buy . |
| 17 | Later to be run on the death of his father by Ted Parris , who still lives in the same road , taking over at the age of 15 until called into the services during the first war . |
| 18 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |
| 19 | The Great Train Robbery still lives in the public imagination , and the drama still goes on . |
| 20 | Her car was still parked in the same place , already it looked dusty and unused . |
| 21 | The essence of the restraint of trade doctrine is still contained in the famous speech of Lord MacNaghten in Nordenfelt v Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co [ 1894 ] AC 535 : The public have an interest in every person 's carrying on his trade freely : so has the individual . |
| 22 | The Ostrich Inn still stands in the ancient village of Colnbrook near Slough . |
| 23 | For example , the rule which automatically renders transactions carried out by company directors in breach of the prohibition on self-dealing voidable can be modified , but it has been held that the director must still act in the best interests of the company . |
| 24 | He is still respected in the financial markets , even though voters disagree . |
| 25 | He still joins in the traditional New Year shooting at Sandringham , but , apart from that family outing , he seldom bothers with shooting birds nowadays . |
| 26 | When the Dark Elves first split from the rest of Ulthuan many from their own lands did not join them but were still caught in the terrible war that followed , culminating in the destruction of their land by the magics unleashed by the Dark Elf sorcerers . |
| 27 | When the Dark Elves first split from the rest of Ulthuan many from their own lands did not join them but were still caught in the terrible war that followed , culminating in the destruction of their land by the magic unleashed by Dark Elf sorcerers . |
| 28 | We do n't have to talk literature , y'know — I 'd as leave hear news of America , parts of which still linger in the Carboniferous Age , I understand . ’ |
| 29 | It attracted people of similar views and backgrounds and it 's no surprise — or should n't be — that such people still mix in the same circles now . |
| 30 | The wrecked Wellington bomber still smouldered in the open field . |