Example sentences of "still [verb] with the " in BNC.

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1 The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks .
2 At 10:30 am , first thing in the Fleet Street morning , his desk at the Daily Post was still stacked with the detritus of the night before .
3 Political observers felt , however , that difficulties could still arise with the USA , because of his publicly expressed view that Japan 's trade surplus was a " fundamentally insoluble problem " caused by unstoppable world demand for superior Japanese products , and would remain impervious to import tariffs or even major currency shifts .
4 Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood .
5 Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship .
6 She was still struggling with the short introduction when her husband entered , bearing a breakfast tray .
7 ‘ Sometimes , ’ answered Zach , still struggling with the cords .
8 He came into pentathlon through swimming , his strongest event — and is still struggling with the fencing .
9 Many welfare lobbyists and pressure groups are still struggling with the legacy of the Thatcher years , especially the Fowler reviews and the 1986 Social Security Act changes .
10 Hitch was still struggling with the Beretta .
11 ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’
12 She 's probably still living in the same house , still teaching , still struggling with the Marmite and the Spinoza .
13 France and Italy have also had to cope with falling output , and Germany , still struggling with the costs of reunification , has now suffered three successive quarters of declining GDP .
14 Even so , there are no neat correspondences : the Standard [ ] still sits with the non-standard [ ] ( whether [ ] is Creole or London ) .
15 Still fumbling with the clasp of her bag , she gasped , ‘ No , Marcus .
16 One breathes silky refinement ; the other still rings with the clank of rusty chain-mail .
17 ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’
18 In the third century B.C. they were still cooperating with the Greeks in Egypt , but they were becoming unpopular with the natives .
19 This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) .
20 The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV .
21 Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery .
22 Other towns in Oxfordshire are still grappling with the problem .
23 Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner .
24 But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic .
25 Michael and the thin man , still walking with the highway 's distance between them , first drew level and then went ahead .
26 With these riches of computer power at their fingertips , it still rankles with the quantum fraternity that the molecules which they can accurately subject to quantum description remain at only 2–20 electron systems .
27 ‘ I like to think my experience is a vital factor in midfield because obviously the side is still developing with the introduction of new players .
28 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 .
29 Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night .
30 I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend .
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