Example sentences of "still [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It does n't have to be written down ; if you agree to buy something over the phone you 've still formed a contract with the supplier . |
| 3 | It does n't have to be written down ; if you agree to buy something over the phone you 've still formed a contract with the supplier . |
| 4 | That subletting was widely practised can not be doubted , for not only in the cases examined was the number of proven freeholds relatively small , but , even in regions where they were most numerous they still formed a minority of all holdings . |
| 5 | A research study from Cyprus showed that potatoes treated with a certain insecticide still contained a residue of 10 per cent ( 0.55mg per kg ) in the skin after 16 weeks of storage . |
| 6 | She was surprised how bare the gardens had become , except for the lopsided apple tree in the lower orchard whose branches still carried a crop of apples shimmering like tiny brassy moons . |
| 7 | We had been admitted to my university , though only just ; it was under ten years since Cambridge has allowed women to take degrees ( and one don still addressed a hall full of students as ‘ gentlemen ’ ) . |
| 8 | Faldo sank a worthy putt for a birdie , but Norman 's victory still looked a formality until his tiny effort , similar to that which Scott Hoch missed for Faldo to win the 1989 Masters , hit the hole and ran past . |
| 9 | Progressive landlords still owned a lot of land and redistribution often did n't go to the poorest peasants but to peasants who were members of the Communist Party . |
| 10 | As MP for Lyme Regis in the Cavalier Parliament , he was still reckoned a government supporter , though ‘ apt to make the gout his excuse ’ for absence from the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Well erm I I 'm still I 'm still having them panic attacks I 've still made a diary of it . |
| 12 | Adrian Longden , NALGO 's district officer , said that although times were hard , the company had still made a profit of more than £1 billion in the last financial year . |
| 13 | Two weeks on the beach at Mombasa , not in a hotel of course , but in the bungalow of an old friend who had survived freedom and independence in Kenya and still made a living out of East Africa 's import and export trade . |
| 14 | If the old Thames trades had still persisted , if boatmen had still made a living from taking the coins from the pockets of the drowned , then this was the hour for them to watch . |
| 15 | One hand still clutched a scrap of thick green leaf and there was a large section missing from the handsome pot plant nearby . |
| 16 | Mounted police have combed a National Trust estate at nearby Christmas Common , but have still drawn a blank in their search for the murder weapon or any bloodstained clothing . |
| 17 | That is where , or so he had been told , Brighton still offered a whiff of the cosmopolitan , esoteric atmosphere of the Left Bank in Paris or a hint of Berlin 's former decadence . |
| 18 | Have you still got a hair in from your |
| 19 | No , I mean , when we come to it , we 'll deal with it , if you 've still got a question then , I 'll answer that then , but basically , there 's more stringent guide lines with this plan than with any other , so you do n't really need to worry about that . |
| 20 | She must be ill — perhaps she 's still got a bit of fever . ’ |
| 21 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
| 22 | I 've got s do n't go yet , we 've still got a bit to get through . |
| 23 | There was a game on then … but Chesterfield had other ideas … they looked a smart outfit while United have still got a bit of catching up to do … the third goal from Norris highlighted the difference between the two teams … |
| 24 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 25 | I 've still got a bit more to do , you know ? |
| 26 | The right one 's okay but the left one 's still got a bit of infection so they do n't really know |
| 27 | Has he got a , still got a beard ? |
| 28 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope they 've still got a home , ’ Helen whispered . |
| 30 | It 's still got a twist in it now , but it 's alright , like . |