Example sentences of "still [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five gates still guarded the only entrances through the mud walls , inside which , among the warren of alleyways and flat-roofed mud houses , Balcha 's soldiers had in 1916 massacred the Muslim population . |
| 2 | Evangelicals and others in the mid-nineteenth century still placed the central responsibility for the upbringing of children upon the family . |
| 3 | Catholic elements still regarded the exiled James II as rightful James VII of Scotland , and would continue to extend this loyalty to his son and grandson . |
| 4 | The Labour government , however , still regarded the whole trend with almost unmitigated hostility , and showed its distaste by sending only a low-grade delegation to the study commission . |
| 5 | In spite of the obvious malice of the Prussian and German governments , the Poles still favoured a peaceful resolution rather than a bloody revolution . |
| 6 | The decanter , diminished by Timothy Gedge , still contained a few inches of amber liquid . |
| 7 | Er but erm the So the railway line erm still carried a little bit of er of freight traffic , but erm it was n't quite abandoned , but even some of the er station buildings were removed erm to er to . |
| 8 | Formidable writers on science , such as Huxley and Darwin 's cousin Francis Galton , still stressed a moral utility for their subject , but the traditional arguments for its religious utility were wearing rather thin . |
| 9 | When he had retired , not long before , he had still owned a small car , and he and his wife could do their shopping in style , and go for outings : Wilson in goggles , because the roof was usually open , and his wife carefully tucked in , and veiled . |
| 10 | Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve . |
| 11 | One study of noise in hospital by Bentley et al ( 1977 ) , and still considered a classic reference , used the dB(A) scale , from among several decibel scales , because of its close relationship to noise which damages human hearing . |
| 12 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 13 | Therapy is still considered a marginal thing but I really do n't see why . |
| 14 | More commonly powerful Romans had themselves portrayed with their bodies idealised in the Greek manner and their heads idealised in the Roman tradition — indeed , even Pompey never quite lost his homely Roman countenance The result was an aesthetic catastrophe , but the harshly jarring styles accurately conveyed the confusion of cultures in the early first century BC , a time when many well-to-do Romans completed their education in Athens , but when the moral values expressed in traditional Roman portraits were still considered an essential element in the representation of individuals . |
| 15 | I have already remarked on the different situation thirty years ago , when criticism still occupied a traditional place as part of public discourse , and the first books of a distinguished generation of British critics — Bayley , Davie , Hoggart , Kermode , Wain , Williams — were reviewed in the daily and weekly press . |
| 16 | Never mind , Mark had still won the biggest prize of all . |
| 17 | This ‘ gorgeous gargoyle ’ ( thespian O'Toole 's ) description ) might have played more Tests had Underwood not been around , but he has still made a wide impression on the game , made more lasting by this unexpected offering . |
| 18 | The dark , blue-black serpentine which had been popular before was still used a great deal , but now new materials were tried out as well — alabaster , gypsum , limestone , marble and breccia — and some extremely hard rocks like porphyry . |
| 19 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 20 | It 's going to pull us a little bit closer to the rest of the pack but we have still got a good squad . ’ |
| 21 | You always know you 'll get nothing short of 110 per cent and he 's still got a great appetite for playing at the top level . |
| 22 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 23 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 24 | I do n't know , there 's still got a long way to go though |
| 25 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 26 | Oh they 've still got a small part there . |
| 27 | I know , but she 's still got a cracking bust that 's why How did you get on with your table tennis this afternoon ? |
| 28 | Look he 's still got a dirty nose . |
| 29 | And er I like to think that if you 'd bought a nice full-nose Morris in nineteen forty five , and you wanted a replacement in nineteen ninety , you 'd have still got a reasonable Metro would n't you ? |
| 30 | Erm the only other thing is , we 've still got a spare man out on the have n't we , covering the breaks . |