Example sentences of "still [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't seem fair that women put in just as much effort , dedication and time as men , and are still treated in a second-class fashion . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the document was still consulted in the early thirteenth century , which shows that it was regarded as an important statement of custom . |
| 3 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 4 | Pow , in spite of taking a knock on the knee , will be at stand-off for today 's home encounter against Watsonians , who are on eight points but still embroiled in the relegation issue . |
| 5 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 6 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 7 | This was another , remote area of the complex which had remained untouched by Roirbak 's artistic caprices , and was still furnished in a bare , functional style . |
| 8 | Your doctor or midwife may also check your breasts and abdomen , though the womb is still hidden in the pelvis in the early weeks and may not be felt . |
| 9 | The continued argument about transport development shows how important a part it still plays in the economy of the US . |
| 10 | When the police found him later his head was almost severed from his neck , lolled through the fractured opening in a macabre way , the dead cigarette still tucked in the corner of the dead man 's mouth . |
| 11 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 12 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 13 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 14 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 15 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 16 | I heard the news from a guy I knew who still lived in the village . |
| 17 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 18 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 19 | Since then she had married someone else and been widowed , but she still lived in the district with their daughter , Anna . |
| 20 | Very few Russian nobles moved west , but " in 1858 the majority of the nobles in the Russian Empire … still lived in the nine western gubernii [ provinces ] " . |
| 21 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 22 | Some tourist attractions say they 're still drawing in the crowds , although the immediate future is far from rosey . |
| 23 | Does your kitchen look like an operating theatre , or are you still cooking in a replica Sienese farmhouse ? |
| 24 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 25 | SDP left-wingers were more neutralist and anti-American than their leaders , and anxious to see more radical domestic reforms but Brandt feared that greater radicalism would alienate the FDP , on whom the SDP still depended in the Bundestag . |
| 26 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 27 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 28 | After their special meeting , the ANC then released a statement saying the tour was still hanging in the balance ad pointed the blame squarely at Louis Luyt . |
| 29 | We therefore argued that given the radical nature of women acting as independent agents , action which still flies in the face of dominant ideologies and which challenges the nature of the family , it is astonishing how much progress women have made in this period . |
| 30 | From Old Stratford to Towcester it still goes in a straight line for 8½ miles . |