Example sentences of "be still a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we still get on alright you know we 're still a close family , ever though she do n't come to visit . |
| 2 | You 're still a young man … well , youngish. ’ she said , trying to tease him out of his apparent lethargy and depression . |
| 3 | We 're still a powerful clan , and it 's a good match for the Campbells . |
| 4 | " You 're still a mighty beautiful woman , my dear , " he said , slurring his words slightly . |
| 5 | Everything large or furry has been shot and eaten or skinned , or if it has n't been , it runs away while you 're still a long way off , which makes it rather difficult to film . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're still a long way from Herr Goodenache . ’ |
| 7 | So in a way I welcome the fact that these figures bear a little more relationship to the real situation er than last year 's did , but we 're still a long way short of knowing exactly what 's going on . |
| 8 | Kenneth Baker yesterday said ‘ well , the Labour Party has n't changed ; they 're still a high spending , high taxation and high borrowing party ’ . |
| 9 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ You are still a good looking woman Ma , ’ Yanto teased . |
| 11 | More so if your hard disk is yesterday 's technology ( there are still a good number of 65 millisecond access Seagates and Miniscribes in use ) , as the difference between memory and disk read rates is astonishing . |
| 12 | It 's seems to be that Leeds are still a good bet to finish second at 4/1+ . |
| 13 | But the Greens are still a good 5-8 points ahead of the Front in the opinion polls . |
| 14 | They are still a great club and they had several internationals out there . ’ |
| 15 | There are still a great many old-stagers who still insist on keeping up the old style — 13th January . |
| 16 | Although there are many boreholes and seismic records , there are still a great many more unsurveyed islands . |
| 17 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 18 | Heated rollers are still a firm favourite , and Clairol Curl Control Setters , £29.95 for 20 rollers , are rubber coated to grip hair gently . |
| 19 | Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics . |
| 20 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 21 | We are still a long way from moving from ‘ the polluted pay ’ to ‘ the polluters pay ’ principle . |
| 22 | In man this is very clear , for although a child may be sexually mature and fully grown quite early on in his or her teens , they are still a long way from any degree of emotional maturity . |
| 23 | However , before getting too carried away and concluding that detailed activity-based accounting may soon be outdated , and replaced by more simple machine-time analyses , it must be remembered that the extremes of CIM are still a long way off for most industries . |
| 24 | BY the end of the summer show season there will be few in the farming world who have not seen an Irish Moiled calf , despite the fact they are still a rare breed . |
| 25 | Maybe just as well they have to , because , even when cosmic diamonds are still a rare find , we do not want the beauty of the Universe to be compromised by adventurers who are after personal gain . |
| 26 | Peptic ulcers are still a major medical problem and require new drugs , particularly non-toxic drugs with a prophylactic effect , to prevent ulcer reoccurrence . |
| 27 | Those beautiful mission buildings are still a major feature of Texas architectural history . |
| 28 | Although a lot of research into medicinal plants and traditional remedies has now been carried out , people are still a major source of knowledge . |
| 29 | MANAGEMENT buy-outs are still a major option , even in the depths of the recession , says venture capitalist 3i . |
| 30 | Despite all the fine statements that young people are the future of the country , they are still a disadvantaged group and will remain so until they are made a priority policy target . |