Example sentences of "still [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
| 2 | Factory greyness had dulled the senses and while the club was still the place to be , it certainly was n't the place to play . |
| 3 | She was good as Maritza , but still no threat to him . |
| 4 | There was not a soul to be seen , and apart from a hammering noise echoing from somewhere distant , and an occasional coughing in a room to the back of the house , there is still no sound to be heard . |
| 5 | At this period in his life , Auden was still a subscriber to the bundle of ideologies — leftist in politics , atheist in religion , Freudian in psychology — which went with being a 1930s intellectual . |
| 6 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 7 | It was a remarkable achievement by any standards , but it proved that Waites was well and truly back on the scene and still a competitor to be feared . |
| 8 | The offer came , there was still a contract to be abrogated , but Lauda is Lauda : what he wants , he gets . |
| 9 | Even if there was still a peace to be saved in 1940 , it seemed most unlikely that Labour would win the election . |
| 10 | To be a spinster is not quite the abnormality it was in Austen 's day , but it is still a fate to be avoided . |
| 11 | Certainly , he had to face the fact that a majority of the French population still supported the principle of integration and that there were immense risks involved in challenging integration head-on , especially since the malaise in the army was still a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 12 | I 'm still a threat to him alive . ’ |
| 13 | As far as he 's concerned , I 'm still a threat to him . |
| 14 | But there 's still a bill to be settle . |
| 15 | Despite his age , Len Hatch was still a man to be reckoned with . |
| 16 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 17 | Obviously it 's nowhere near as deep or complicated as Bard 's Tale , but it 's still a force to be reckoned with — especially now you get the expansion set thrown in too . |
| 18 | But the dispute also made it clear to President Chamorro that the Nicaraguan left is still a force to be reckoned with . |
| 19 | But you 're still a disgrace to the T'ang 's uniform , and if I can , I 'll break you . ’ |
| 20 | It is not unusual to find adult education centres , in the middle of provincial inner cities , for example , in which the majority of the provision is still a testimony to white , petit-bourgeois aspirations and hobbies , peopled by students who travel into classes by car from outside the immediate neighbourhood . |
| 21 | There is a cartoon which depicts a statue to an elder statesman bearing the inscription , ‘ An inspiration to his country , a leader of men , but still a disappointment to his mother ’ . |
| 22 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 23 | Although why anyone with a Silver Cloud needs to worry about things yielding up their secrets is still a mystery to me . |
| 24 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |
| 25 | If there is no gatevalve in this supply , the cold water cistern will have to be drained : turn off the supply or tie up the ballvalve ( so that there is still a supply to the kitchen tap ) and open the upstairs cold water taps . |
| 26 | Sometimes she was still a stranger to him . |
| 27 | At present doctors must prove at regular intervals that such patients are still a danger to society . |
| 28 | ‘ I am enjoying my job more than ever and there is still a lot to be done with PRCS , so all the speculation is a bit silly . ’ |
| 29 | Three points from the last four available after five straight defeats is the reward for the manager 's faith and the sudden realisation that the First Division beckoned has focused minds magnificently as Jefferies acknowledged when he said : ‘ There is still a lot to be done but if the players show the same attitude for the rest of the season we wo n't go down . |
| 30 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |