Example sentences of "still [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One-year MA degree/Diploma courses , still rather recently established at the Universities of Edinburgh , Reading and Essex provided the source of such qualifications . |
| 2 | The pyramid is still remarkably well preserved and parts of its complex have been painstakingly restored by the French architect Jean-Philippe Lauer . |
| 3 | Since it is the charge still most frequently levelled against him , it is perhaps worth examining the evidence for it . |
| 4 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |
| 5 | The rioters , who held the streets of London for three days after Wilkes ' election , although they did not come exclusively from the working classes , were still overwhelmingly so composed . |
| 6 | State governments are responsible for the radio broadcasting services of the area under their jurisdiction , whereas television is still mostly federally controlled and financed . |
| 7 | In the whole population , after adjustment for age , cigarette consumption , plasma ApoAI , plasma Lp ( a ) , blood pressure and social class , the DD genotype and its interaction with the risk status were still highly significantly associated with myocardial infarction ( P 0.0005 and P=0.02 , respectively ) . |
| 8 | More fundamentally , the Act of Settlement of 1701 , by asserting the right of Parliament to decide the succession to the throne , struck a decisive blow at the mystique of absolute hereditary monarchy still so widely accepted in many parts of the continent . |
| 9 | Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged . |
| 10 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 11 | But he 'd still much rather have a new pair of football boots at Christmas . |
| 12 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 13 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 14 | The history of clerical suspicion of ‘ secular ’ celebrations is still only patchily written ; it would reveal not only a remarkable — though by no means even — development over time , but a no less remarkable variation from place to place . |
| 15 | Many aspects of military life , however , were still only indirectly controlled by the State , at least in Western Europe , at the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The process is one of the most complex in biochemistry , and is still only partly understood . |
| 17 | These plasters played a crucial , but still only partly understood , role in the casting of the bronze figure , and the Joslyn example will become the centrepiece of a highly focused show offering a definitive account of the sculpture , its genesis and its pictorial echoes in the work of Degas ' middle years . |
| 18 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |
| 19 | The key ideas were proposed by Grice in the William james lectures delivered at Harvard in 1967 and still only partially published ( Grice , 1975 , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 21 | Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done . |
| 22 | But he still only just squeaked home , by a margin of 47,080 votes out of 1.9m cast . |
| 23 | Now consider that you would then still only just approach the 95 million Royal Bank notes in circulation . |
| 24 | More important , the mental processes being studied are still only crudely defined . |
| 25 | It was not designed to contradict chapter 3 on collegiality , still less subtly to undermine it ; it was to enable the die-hard conservative minority to vote for chapter 3 with a clear conscience . |
| 26 | Contemporary readers are apt to be startled that Swift , an intelligent man , should have said , still less actually believed , anything so silly . |
| 27 | The chemistry behind the formation of zeolites is still not clearly understood as Barrer shows , but he goes on to elucidate the physical processes of nucleation and crystal growth . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the rights of pupils to autonomy and self-responsibility are still not adequately protected under the new form of confessionalism . |
| 29 | These came into force January 1989 but they are still not widely known . |
| 30 | The new water bye-laws which came into force in January 1989 are still not widely known . |