Example sentences of "still [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 2 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 3 | THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week ( 26 April 1986 ) is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 6 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |
| 7 | While the other banks were opening and buying banks around the world to service the growing flows of international capital , Midland still relied on a network of correspondents . |
| 8 | In general , the picture is still painted with a very broad brush and later stages are better characterized than early ones . |
| 9 | I 'm still eating in a guilty , uncomfortable way : huge amounts one day , then fasting or taking laxatives the next . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Morgan felt more comfortable as he approached the Grange , still hidden by a copse of trees . |
| 12 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 13 | Llewellyn , who is attached to the Tim Forster stable , was really third choice for the mount on Party Politics , as injured Andrew Adams , 27 , was still recovering from a broken knee , and Richard Dunwoody , who had also ridden the gelding , was committed to Brown Windsor . |
| 14 | The winner carried the famous ‘ Teaplanter ’ colours of owner Richard Russell who missed the ride as he is still recovering from a bad early season fall . |
| 15 | Here , and probably only from the air , it is possible to make out a large area , still recovering from a heather fire which several years ago set alight the peaty turf which burned below the surface for several weeks . |
| 16 | Sir Roger was still recovering from a bad car accident just before Christmas . |
| 17 | Mick Lyons has departed the scene , All Ireland captain Liam Hayes is still recovering from a broken arm , although one of the sport 's enduring personalities Colm O'Rourke has rejoined the squad after a 10 month absence . |
| 18 | Barry is forty two this week , he 's still recovering from a heart attack , but the stress of the last four months have kept him smoking . |
| 19 | David , who 's still recovering from a knee injury , says his brief experience of disability has helped him appreciate what others go through . |
| 20 | The Henley MP could n't give a speech because he 's still recovering from a heart attack . |
| 21 | Even under normal circumstances , however , people throughout the world are still exposed to a variety of environmental hazards which jeopardise their safety , health , happiness and , indeed , survival . |
| 22 | In 1956 , at a time when eligibility for jury service was still limited by a property qualification , Lord Devlin described juries as ‘ predominantly male , middle-aged , middle-minded and middle-class ’ . |
| 23 | Officially the electric HST is still intended as a stopgap for the much-delayed advanced passenger train . |
| 24 | Even if they followed an older , slightly more direct road , it still amounted to a total of about thirty-three miles . |
| 25 | The emotion-packed power pop of the sparkling ‘ It 's A Shame About Ray ’ album is beefed up a little , but still buzzes with a naive , laid-back charm that 's at odds with the black mood of the band . |
| 26 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
| 27 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |
| 28 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |