Example sentences of "still [be] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax . |
| 2 | For instance , in the first example of ( 21 ) it might still be the mob outside the embassy , in the second , perhaps a queue for an exhibition . |
| 3 | Think about two people 's abstract contemplation would still be the contemplation of two different people . |
| 4 | The sexual side of later life can still be the subject of stock jokes . |
| 5 | The former has five gadroons , compared to the three in the Colchester example but , clearly , they might still be the work of the same mosaicist . |
| 6 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 7 | My friends , we will be dead and gone and forgotten and generation after generation will come , and there will still be the search for the Holy Grail by knights like Keir Hardie . |
| 8 | ‘ I tremble for fear , ’ he wrote , ‘ that this vile spot may still be the ruin of this island and our family . ’ |
| 9 | There would still be the difference between the two sections that , whereas section 5 plainly places the probative burden on the defendant , under section 4 , the defendant would have no more than an evidentiary burden to raise the issue , in which case it would be for the prosecutor to establish that he knew that witnesses were present . |