Example sentences of "were still [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our announcing staff at CBR had been enhanced by the addition of Ray Mackness , Sheila Russell , Ted Devlin and Saul Ornest , but the main shows were still handled by the old reliables , Dick Halhed and Bill Herbert . |
| 2 | Guido 's is more cautious — he sensed that the bishops of the empire were still dazed by the pope 's action in recognizing Otto . |
| 3 | If the Americans could not agree among themselves as to the merits or otherwise of the Sterling Area , they were still troubled by the weakness of sterling , and by other evidence of the " grave " economic problems which continued to plague their ally . |
| 4 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 5 | Bernard and Laura 's attitudes were still coloured by the historical evolution of the business , manufacturing led , and believed their shops existed only to absorb the manufacturing capacity . |
| 6 | A retrial was ordered in 31 cases , while 13 were still sought by the police . |
| 7 | Despite the growing importance of state intervention through macroeconomic planning and industrial policies , the essential decisions about investment were still taken by the controllers of private capital , on the basis of private profitability . |
| 8 | The great gains in public health , following the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948 , was modified by , among other factors , the existence of class attitudes towards health which meant , for instance , that older working-class communities in the industrial north were still marred by the health problems of a poor diet , excessive beer drinking and smoking , and a prevalence of heart and lung disease in consequence . |
| 9 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |