Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Staff at Church House , the Bishop 's headquarters in Gloucester , say the Bishop is still resting on sabbatical leave . |
| 32 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 33 | Cash planning Cash limits did constrain most spending programmes , but PESC planning was still undertaken in volume terms ( ‘ funny money ’ ) . |
| 34 | A common formula used throughout the trade is to multiply cost price by 2.35 ; this proved equitable to supplier and vendor alike , giving a margin of 50% while still allowing for VAT . |
| 35 | Politics This old House still filled with laughter |
| 36 | Of course I still have to get a job , and I still suffer from depression and back pain , but somehow I 'm managing . |
| 37 | There , as landless plantation workers , the children grew up undernourished ; many lost their teeth , and still suffer from stomach disorders and limited growth . |
| 38 | ‘ I ‘ ear there 's a lot of barrows up for sale nowadays and some still goin' for bargain prices . ’ |
| 39 | Most humans have emigrated to a colony on Mars and those who still remain on Earth are encouraged to leave by the inducement of a free purpose-built robot , or android , to help them in their new life . |
| 40 | However , even when the agenda is clarified and the tasks are clear , choices still remain at school level as to how the agenda and tasks should be managed . |
| 41 | This , so-called ‘ Spens formula , ’ affords reasonable protection in the case of listed companies but preference shareholders in unquoted companies still remain at risk . |
| 42 | Because slaves can have their interests counted equitably and still remain in bondage . |
| 43 | Beatrix Potter 's little books provide a model of the economic use of precise language ; E. Nesbit sets standards of pace , intimacy with the reader , vivid immediacy , and dialogue ; Frances Hodgson Burnett shows how it is possible to hold and express beliefs ( such as the power of Nature ) and still remain in control ; Robert Louis Stevenson demonstrates the spirit-stirring power of adventure , a sort of basic human need to succeed and to survive gloriously ; Arthur Ransome illustrates how a matter-of-fact tone can match the no-nonsense approach of children ; and so on . |
| 44 | In 1930 , 50 per cent of the population still depended on agriculture , compared with 10 per cent in Britain . |
| 45 | Later in the century political factions still depended on association with particular claimants to the throne . |
| 46 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 47 | A decision by a single judge on assize in 1865 is still regarded as authority for this proposition , but there is surely little justification for this today . |
| 48 | To go to the Mediterranean in summer , except in search of art and architecture , was still regarded as madness until well into the twentieth century , that era of the novel worship of sun and brown skins . |
| 49 | Below ground but paid on a daily rate , that is to say , at so much per stem , the list of jobs below , were still regarded as tutwork . |
| 50 | This breakthrough , still regarded with awe in the detergent trade , was achieved by a technician at Procter & Gamble 's French division . |
| 51 | But she still goes to school in Soweto — a journey of two-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus . |
| 52 | So he still goes to playgroup . |
| 53 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 54 | ‘ We are still struggling with child sexual abuse and we are still trying to get it right from the child 's point of view . |
| 55 | Still struggling with stock footage and music permissions , situation is as follows : |
| 56 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 57 | With their experienced hooker David Watkinson still struggling for fitness , Dewsbury are likely to retain the same side as Sunday . |
| 58 | Buzzards are still persecuted by game preservers in some parts of the county , birds being found twice on gamekeepers ' gibbets in 1971 , for example . |
| 59 | She thought she 'd married a pair of muscular , sheltering arms and what she 'd got was a snivelling kid still frightened of Mummy . |
| 60 | ‘ She 'll probably still fall in love with you , ’ Jessamy said drily . |