Example sentences of "still [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although if it 's still raining the ditch wo n't be too comfortable . |
| 2 | At the time I was worn out , still reacting no doubt from living for years on end in fear and dread . |
| 3 | Books Etc was , he said , ‘ perturbed by the fact that we are still seeing a galaxy of British paperbacks at the airside of Heathrow terminals presented with a flourish as ‘ unavailable elsewhere in the UK ’ ’ . |
| 4 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 5 | The procession was still circling the arena . |
| 6 | This success to some extent relieved the Soviet pressure for a second front in Western Europe ; but when Stalin met Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran in November 1943 , he was still demanding a commitment to invade France . |
| 7 | So if we are eating , for instance , a slice of calorie-crammed quiche surrounded by salad vegetable concoctions oozing with oily or mayonnaisey dressings we are still eating a salad , are n't we , so that ca n't be very fattening , can it ? |
| 8 | Looking at the bass , it seems as if people are still slapping a bit on the price for the name . |
| 9 | Throughout Portuguese Timor the church was still preaching the faith , and although priests were questioned there was little brutality in the early days of this occupation . |
| 10 | This will operate along side students who are still completing the original longer spaced out schedule . |
| 11 | Yes , there were er , I think there was one , two , three , four houses , four or five houses that were occupied before we came in , they were still building The Chantry incidently and er you know it was a it was quite a shock to us and the wife was a bit upset you know when having to , we came from Plymouth actually , Devon , and er the wife was a bit er down you know all the night travelling all night with the children |
| 12 | After his arrest , the vermilion red Metro car belonging to 51-year-old Michael Sams was used for the demonstration , which proved that the bin would fit into the back of the vehicle , still allowing the tail-gate to be shut . |
| 13 | As previously explained , this will put the throttle servo into a preset position while still allowing the pitch to be controlled by the throttle stick . |
| 14 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 15 | But the manufacturers claim that the insurers are still using a blanket approach which does not take full account of differences between models , and improvements they have introduced . |
| 16 | I mean I , I heard a stupid story , that instead of like , the , the twenty-seventh , twenty-eight and ninth come over here , but the was still , was still using a radio and stuff taken out the pre war stuff , that 's how far their radio technology and communications come on . |
| 17 | It is still using a line that provides voice telephony , so standards set for the voice line will apply . |
| 18 | While still using the mirror he tried not to tense his neck muscles , nor to depress his larynx , nor to make the gasping sounds . |
| 19 | After I made the cut I folded back the turf ( still using the spade ) and saw the nest . |
| 20 | He can begin to analyse the distinctive features of communicative interactions while still using the language of the mentalist . |
| 21 | Still using the flashlight , he perched the case on his desk , took out his key ring , used the two keys which unlocked the specially reinforced bottom right-hand drawer . |
| 22 | Nor could it afford indefinitely to be without a direct , local link with Asmar 's network , which was still using the agency 's video equipment to keep track of the hostages in Beirut as well as monitoring the activities of DEA/CIA operatives . |
| 23 | If you are still using the facsimile machine to notify your visitors , why not consider switching to GATES if you can ? |
| 24 | He says the public are still using the car park in droves . |
| 25 | It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim . |
| 26 | In the latter part of the poem , however , referring expressions , though still mobilising the demonstrative , are not qualified with further deictic terms . |
| 27 | Only in Iceland are the local Icelandic cattle still maintaining a stronghold of about 33,000 milking cows out of a total of 70,000 cattle in the country as a whole . |
| 28 | As we saw modern Marxists have reworked their theory to account for these changes while still maintaining the centrality of Marx 's original insights . |
| 29 | Still maintaining the shape , sandwich all the pieces of cake together with some of the buttercream and raspberry jam . |
| 30 | Do any of the districts want to be drawn on a choice or are you still maintaining the line which you have persisted in maintaining since we embarked on this discussion on Thursday , where we have two districts well sorry , Mr and Mr not agreeing in principle with the new settlement . |