Example sentences of "still [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 2 | The ceasefire was still intact at the end of February , despite intermittent shooting and shelling . |
| 3 | As the century grew older , this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common ; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century 's end . |
| 4 | Of the 99 members elected in 1972 , only 70 were still alive at the start of 1990 . |
| 5 | But if she were still alive at the time of his second marriage , nearly twenty years later , then it was bigamous . ’ |
| 6 | Most if it he knew : the copyright on his works to his wife Viola ; the manuscripts to his former wife Hilda Machin ; a small sum of money to his mother , still alive at the time of the making of the will . |
| 7 | My other brother , a full brother , Paul , was still alive at the time . |
| 8 | He was still alive at the end of 1311 but was dead by September 1313 . |
| 9 | Alcohol was the cause of liver disease in 16 ( 67% ) of the 24 who died and in 26 ( 65% ) of the 40 patients still alive at the end of the study . |
| 10 | Others have been returned after this date , and some are still outstanding at the time of writing . |
| 11 | The thing that is really appealing about In England Now is that self-important , overbearing medical people are still aghast at the idea of a major journal of international repute devoting space to humour . |
| 12 | She accepted the cigarette as she accepted most offerings , and still elated at the sound of her French being understood and responded to by Frenchmen , volunteered the information that she was going to Nîmes , to stay with a family . |
| 13 | Despite the premium rate , Mr Lowman claims that mortgage demand is still high at the moment . |
| 14 | Of medium height and packed with energy , even distressed as he was , he was bursting round the kitchen , hair still damp at the back from his swim . |
| 15 | Although I am still nervous at the thought of doing a talk in front of strangers , once I get going I enjoy every minute of it . |
| 16 | ‘ Her camp turned it down , ’ he explained weeks later , still incredulous at the decision . |
| 17 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 18 | Semi-ripe ( semi-hardwood or half-ripe ) cuttings are taken from current year 's shoots of shrubs when woody at the base but still soft at the tips , in mid-summer to mid-autumn . |
| 19 | These patterns of life were still widespread at the start of the 20th century ; a few pursue it today , but under the influences of civilization , most have settled and traded at least part of their culture for southern ways . |
| 20 | But if , as in your son 's case , the foreskin is still tight at the age of five or six , then it could lead to inflammation and discomfort — an infection could fester under the foreskin , causing redness , soreness and swelling . |
| 21 | The book , by Ginsberg and Kerouac 's associate William Burroughs , was still illegal at the time . |
| 22 | According to the Ulster Museum they 're still agog at the doings of the sailor . |
| 23 | ‘ Does n't that bother you ? ’ asked Coleman , walking around the desk to see if El-Jorr was eavesdropping , but he was still busy at the computer terminal in the next room . |
| 24 | Oxford United are still stuck at the bottom of the first division … after last night 's draw against Barnsley … while Hereford suffered a worse fate … they lost at Gillingham … |
| 25 | Or are things still fragile at the back ( from over here it seems that that was the main thing that caused us trouble last year , and in some early matches this season . ) ? |
| 26 | Comte 's hierarchy is more often expressed nowadays in terms of a spectrum running from ‘ hard ’ to ‘ soft ’ sciences ( spectra are less contentious than hierarchies ) , but its influence is still apparent at the undergraduate level , although the picture at the postgraduate and research level in the sciences seems to be becoming ever more complex and many-faceted . |
| 27 | A few places are still available at the conference , which will be of interest to solicitors in private practice , local government and health service lawyers , as well as other professionals and voluntary organisations involved in the provision of community care . |
| 28 | The procedure is designed to give a " right of reply " instead of an action for damages in cases where the media have behaved responsibly : the plaintiff can not succeed if the defendant proves that an " offer of amends " was made in good time , and is still open at the time of the trial . |
| 29 | But he 's still furious at the conditions laid down by the Department of Environment which he must agree to before the gypsies can stay . |
| 30 | I was asked in the Straight Talking video last December — and I am still amazed at the number of people who believe that he questions on that video were stage managed , which they were n't — when morale would improve . |