Example sentences of "still [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 2 | At the end of the War , around a half of British households still lacked a fixed bath with hot , running water , but electricity played a part in changing this ( whether as the only heat source or as summer immersion heating to complement water heating by the more common coal-fired back boilers ) . |
| 3 | In presidential and legislative elections held in May 1989 [ see pp. 36651-52 ] Menem defeated Eduardo César Angeloz of the UCR , and the Peronists became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies , although they still lacked an absolute majority . |
| 4 | you still got a stiff neck ? |
| 5 | We still got a big pile to stick in have n't |
| 6 | But he still conveyed an easy-going personality and had a deceptively casual acting style that differed from Dustin 's volatile nature and the nervous intensity he invested in each role . |
| 7 | It is remarkable therefore that despite these two biases we still found a twofold difference . |
| 8 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 9 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 10 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |
| 11 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 12 | In those days he still played a good deal of tennis . |
| 13 | Its practical effect was not very great ; but it began an attack on what radicals later came to call the ‘ old corruption ’ , the network of sinecures and jobbery which still played a large role in British political life . |
| 14 | As the fund entered its second century , it still played a vital role in the welfare of the patients . |
| 15 | The amateur cricketer still played a significant role in the game . |
| 16 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 17 | But even if American anti-imperialism were diluted in practice , the British knew they still faced an uphill struggle after the war to regain the degree of international power and influence which they believed was rightly theirs . |
| 18 | In the Forties Britain still boasted a thriving film industry . |
| 19 | The seats were simple and uncomfortable , the noise intolerable , but it still shaped a disastrous decade of short-term economy stock building that is now being regretted . |
| 20 | Yet he still postponed a quick flight out of here , just in case he was involved in a sudden death play-off . |
| 21 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 22 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |
| 23 | Faldo still enjoyed a three-stroke cushion , but the pumped-up Australian resembled an executioner as he hacked away at the Open champion 's lead . |
| 24 | As it was , the objective function of the massive shows of loyalty to Hitler , however contrived they were , was to reveal to waverers that the ‘ Führer myth ’ was still very much alive , that the regime still enjoyed a formidable degree of support , focused as ever around the bonds with the Führer . |
| 25 | Enesco is a major force in twentieth century music whose almost total neglect at present is quite astonishing , and if his little Poemes de Clement Marot show a limited aspect of his art , they still breathed an engaging wit and charm in Miss Cotrubas 's heart-warming performance . |
| 26 | Even if I were a man of deep sensibility and tact — and it sounds pretty wimpish to me ! — I still needed a good night 's sleep . |
| 27 | It still needed a fine catch from Crowe , who hared back to wide mid-on and sprawled towards the boundary . |
| 28 | Yet dynastic memory kept it alive as a concept which still exercised a certain influence over the behaviour of the Plantagenets . |
| 29 | Looking now at her plump , well-kept hands , two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English . |
| 30 | On her left hand she still wore a slim gold band — a wedding ring , I assume , from her second husband , Baron Michael de Stempel , currently serving four years for fraud , along with the Baroness 's two children by her first husband Simon Dale , Georgia Sophia ( serving 30 months ) and Xenophon Marcus ( eighteen months ) . |