Example sentences of "still [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books Etc was , he said , ‘ perturbed by the fact that we are still seeing a galaxy of British paperbacks at the airside of Heathrow terminals presented with a flourish as ‘ unavailable elsewhere in the UK ’ ’ . |
| 2 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 3 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 4 | Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly . |
| 5 | But when the Futurist painting manifestos appeared early in 1910 the work of the painters themselves still lacked a sense of direction . |
| 6 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 7 | Still got a cold ? |
| 8 | I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff . |
| 9 | Still got a bit of fire in them |
| 10 | Maybe , you still got a headache , and you 're still not right you would n't of |
| 11 | I beat Heidi on that , though still got a merito , got nine point for my spelling test . |
| 12 | So I mean do think that perhaps you still got a lot , a bit of unnecessary and indeed and we er will not . |
| 13 | But as John still got a lot of work on , and Mary Ann ? |
| 14 | He still got a lot in the bottle there |
| 15 | Still got a lot of erm |
| 16 | This success to some extent relieved the Soviet pressure for a second front in Western Europe ; but when Stalin met Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran in November 1943 , he was still demanding a commitment to invade France . |
| 17 | So if we are eating , for instance , a slice of calorie-crammed quiche surrounded by salad vegetable concoctions oozing with oily or mayonnaisey dressings we are still eating a salad , are n't we , so that ca n't be very fattening , can it ? |
| 18 | Looking at the bass , it seems as if people are still slapping a bit on the price for the name . |
| 19 | As with men 's share of unpaid household work , indicators such as the ratio of women 's to men 's rates of pay , plotted in figure 10.2 , and women 's share in household earnings , have shown some changes but still display a gulf between the sexes . |
| 20 | He still shared a bed with his girlfriend but stopped having sex with her , and then his girlfriend moved out . |
| 21 | He 's lost a friend himself , but can still spare a thought for a near-stranger and the way he feels about a woman . |
| 22 | Notice also how he is sheeting in the sail since even at this speed the apparent wind effect still plays a part in the turn . |
| 23 | ‘ While EC and central government grant assistance still plays a part in the DPTC 's training income , it is now channelled through the user organisations to offset the full commercial rates we are charging for courses . |
| 24 | I think , however , that their use of it is still often confused and inhibited by mistaken ideas about what equality demands , and that the senseless ideal of standardisation still produces a waste of effort on this topic , as on many others . |
| 25 | You can be schizophrenic and still make a will that . |
| 26 | Unlike a jet operator , the owner of a piston-powered airliner can offer that motor manufacturer ( and other operations like him ) a relatively low fee to have an aircraft packed-out just awaiting the customer 's whim and still make a profit . |
| 27 | Can farmers cut spraying and still make a living ? |
| 28 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 29 | New technology may represent a cost saving on older forms of treatment but still represents a cost push in overall terms by extending the boundaries of those who could potentially benefit . |
| 30 | To be old and unmarried still represents a cloud on a teenage girl 's horizon … |