Example sentences of "still [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a shock , but while there were those who still lacked the Christian faith , it was a necessary shock . |
| 2 | still got the real interest there |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even when he was not striking the ball well , he still posed the biggest threat . |
| 5 | They still used the simpler armour found from the preceding century , with conical helmets padded or plated hauberks or jerkins , and fought with unprotected legs . |
| 6 | It still helped the remote chance of getting people to come to the meetings . |
| 7 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 8 | She was too sore to want it inside her , and her mouth still retained the lingering taste of urine . |
| 9 | They still retained the faint aroma of Ludovico 's body . |
| 10 | A muscle jerked in his jaw , and although he still retained the humorous gleam it did n't quite warm his eyes . |
| 11 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 12 | A PROFOUND shift away from the Tory Party among women voters was taking place , but many women still believed the Labour Party was too male-dominated , Clare Short warned the conference yesterday . |
| 13 | Exhausted , he collapsed on to the unmade bed , fell asleep , but still woke the next morning at four thirty . |
| 14 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 15 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 16 | Her tone said that she still loathed the Harlequin man , yet she felt compelled to be accurate . |
| 17 | It 's been a long , grey summer , but the clubbing community still celebrated the last Bank Holiday weekend of the season in style . |
| 18 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 19 | A bridge between the legislating church and the law-making king might be found in the role of the clergy who until c. 1290 still dominated the royal judiciary , although by no means were all these men canon lawyers . |
| 20 | The white buildings of the cortijo , with its great gate and tower , still dominated the yellow landscape . |
| 21 | But something still troubled the chief inspector . |
| 22 | The hedges were just beginning to take a firm hold , and the lawns still showed the geometric pattern of the turfs as they had been fitted together . |
| 23 | But Jane still dreaded the threatening disease of daily life . |
| 24 | The haze still surrounded the distant locomotive and train , discernible but somehow blurred . |
| 25 | The new Moscow churches still followed the Byzantine ground plan and inside were decorated with Byzantine style mosaic and fresco on walls with few interrupting mouldings , but outside Renaissance ornament made its appearance , introduced by the Italian craftsmen who brought their new style with them . |
| 26 | Zarathustra 's monotheistic religion can be regarded as a response to the social conditions of his time , an age of transition when a settled agricultural and pastoral community was being threatened by predatory tribes who still followed the nomadic way of life . |
| 27 | Below us , a dangerously narrow path still followed the rocky shoreline . |
| 28 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 29 | It still behoved the middle class trader to play fair with his customers and not take advantage of good-natured country parsons and ignorant members of the labouring classes . |
| 30 | Yet it was all in a losing cause because England still finished the fourth day of the second Test 43 runs in arrears at 231 for eight in their second innings . |