Example sentences of "were still [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the aftermath of the bid , while suggestions that TI paid too much for Dowty were still flying around the City , the group won praise and respect from many analysts when it released a detailed account of the provisions it would be making in connection with the takeover — £87.1m in all , of which £41m represents asset write-offs and £46.1m additional expenditure that TI will have to incur . |
| 2 | Even if the matter were still proceeding before the justices ' court , either for the purposes of committal for trial or for trial of an information , it would be my opinion that neither section 5(1) nor section 10(1) of the Act of 1980 would apply to give the justice hearing a proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 a power to adjourn that proceeding . |
| 3 | At two in the morning Cameron and Menzies were still sleepwalking between the ragged dykes of Dull , swaying and nodding in the saddle , letting the horses pick the way . |
| 4 | Yesterday Frank and Dorothy Lewis were still seething following the court case , which arose from an incident at Ilkeston , in Derbyshire . |
| 5 | Finnan was shouting commands and swords were still flashing at the beasts who fought to clamber on board . |
| 6 | His ears were still ringing from the gunshot . |
| 7 | The cookhouse was only fifty yards away and was open from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm ; at 1.15 pm we were still hobbling round the block in an abdominal crouch with our hands behind our heads . |
| 8 | As was noted earlier , over two-thirds of the study group were single and a large proportion of these were still living in the parental home . |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 10 | Richard had bitter enemies and his battles with the Archbishop of York concerning the seniority of Canterbury over York were still reverberating around the cloisters of the two cities although at the time of his death the supremacy of Canterbury had been resolved . |
| 11 | Only a few months after vesting day , they were still wrestling with the enormous problems of reorganisation and the standardisation of the many different electricity tariffs they had inherited : this additional burden seemed to them too much . |
| 12 | They were still thinking of the kingdom in materialistic terms . |
| 13 | Her eyes were still adjusting from the brightness outside and she felt a surge of panic at her mistake , but he did nothing . |
| 14 | After all , the Whigs were still acting within the framework of assumptions commonly held by the ruling class then and tacitly accepted by the great majority of a generally deferential lower class , assumptions which attached privilege — and responsibility — to property . |
| 15 | The crime remained unique , and lawmakers were still squabbling over the ramifications . |
| 16 | In the case of the Bedfordshire parish of Cardington in 1782 , only 57 per cent of boys aged fifteen to nineteen who had spent their childhoods there in their parents ' home were still residing in the parish . |
| 17 | But analysts warned that troubles were still brewing for the trade position as the UK maintains its deficit despite the longest recession since 1945 . |
| 18 | In her dream , they were still careering along the road . |
| 19 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 20 | As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon . |
| 21 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 22 | Whilst we were still looking at the blaze , Marjorie Truckle ( Ernie 's sister ) , who would have been about thirteen years of age , came rushing across the field with a message from their mother — |
| 23 | Of course not ; at that stage , they were still clinging to the poll tax . |
| 24 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 25 | They were still waiting for the entertainment . |
| 26 | In the third century B.C. they were still cooperating with the Greeks in Egypt , but they were becoming unpopular with the natives . |
| 27 | Young people and students were still fleeing during the summer of 1990 , in fear of harassment , detention and violence , particularly in the Natal region . |
| 28 | They were still sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 29 | Thirty minutes later the three of them were still sitting in the lounge . |
| 30 | At nine o'clock he and the transient education officer were still sitting in the ante-room reading old copies of Country Life when the mess sergeant came in to say Mr Sims was on the phone . |