Example sentences of "which still [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He employed a professional photographer to photograph the bags and other serious irregularities in the dumping : these included reject brake pads lying exposed on the site , as well as a container which still contained substantial amounts of asbestos . |
| 2 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 3 | One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously . |
| 4 | Second , the enormous increase in international liquidity generated by the exodus from the dollar ( see above ) meant that the countries which still had weak payments balances could borrow easily . |
| 5 | The labour party , which still had some of the socialist leanings of its founder James Connolly , was forced by its own lay members to amend its draft constitution in 1940 in order to fall in line with current papal social teaching . |
| 6 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 7 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 8 | In the event , when insurrections were attempted both in the area of Lang Son , on the Chinese border , in September , and in Cochinchina in November , they were repressed with little difficulty by the French colonial government which still deployed enough effective power to ensure that these were rather rash , forlorn , and certainly premature insurrections . |
| 9 | The government of Pakistan , which still exerted great influence on Afghan affairs , had endorsed the terms of the Peshawar Accord during a visit by Rabbani on June 24 . |
| 10 | In agriculture , which still occupied 27 per cent of the workforce , underemployment was estimated to be high . |
| 11 | He found that most of them relied for information on their nearest educated contacts , the priests and the Nepmen , or else fell back on rumour , which still loomed large in their news lives . |