Example sentences of "still [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , despite the deep problems which afflicted the British economy , London still differed from Washington on a number of issues . |
| 2 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 3 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 4 | He said clarification was still needed from Government on the UK regulations covering trading and transfer of quota . |
| 5 | Their rise during the Industrial Revolution was expressed in capital accumulation ; the status of the aristocracy still derived from birth and ownership of land . |
| 6 | Nowadays the group , still run from Langholm , employs more than 1,800 people . |
| 7 | Unanswering , he removed his finger from the bell and stared unsmiling down at her , then at her thick tousled chestnut hair , her beautiful skin , still flushed from sleep . |
| 8 | His brown curls were tousled and his cheeks were still flushed from sleep . |
| 9 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 10 | But with competitors still excluded from sales to households and other small-scale customers , BG last year managed to attract 290,000 new customers . |
| 11 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 12 | As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market . |
| 13 | Notions of responsibility were still seen as of the essence , and the permanent , civil service , side of the state machine was still kept from focus . |
| 14 | Lapis lazuli from Badakhshan is still marketed from Nizhni Novgorod by way of Bukhara . |
| 15 | The exceptions are Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales , experiments with regional offices and controllers in England having done nothing to alter the fact that both policy and much of the details of administration are still controlled from Whitehall . |
| 16 | Some signalling in the south is still controlled from signalboxes which were built more than 100 years ago . |
| 17 | Maynard , who is , ironically , still banned from Test cricket , had an extended early opportunity to prove his worth as Butcher rested a calf injury . |