Example sentences of "still [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In spite of the obvious malice of the Prussian and German governments , the Poles still favoured a peaceful resolution rather than a bloody revolution .
2 The decanter , diminished by Timothy Gedge , still contained a few inches of amber liquid .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Therapy is still considered a marginal thing but I really do n't see why .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It 's going to pull us a little bit closer to the rest of the pack but we have still got a good squad . ’
15 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 .
16 Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go .
17 However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ .
18 I do n't know , there 's still got a long way to go though
19 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 .
20 Oh they 've still got a small part there .
21 I know , but she 's still got a cracking bust that 's why How did you get on with your table tennis this afternoon ?
22 Look he 's still got a dirty nose .
23 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 ?
24 Erm the only other thing is , we 've still got a spare man out on the have n't we , covering the breaks .
25 So what about Russell today then David , has he still got a sore throat ?
26 If you 're like me you 've still got a fair way to go !
27 You 've still got a fair gap to make up between that and your salary .
28 I think they 've still got a fair whack of root bedding plants in , particularly of good value .
29 It is very strange that the slimmer we get the more critical we become of our body , often exclaiming , ‘ but I 've still got a big waist/tummy/hips/bottom ! ’
30 and it a it had happened to of slipped away at that time and I went to step off , and , with it not being blown up properly that 's how it just flattened and I went off sid I 've still got a big bruise on my left knee !
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