Example sentences of "still [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 2 | We 'll chose a three-column grid because this is fast to work with while still allowing a good degree of flexibility . |
| 3 | In simple computers there are typically eight such switches , still allowing a large number of possible patterns . |
| 4 | However , when the two letters to be matched were presented simultaneously , rather than successively , the pattern of results differed for the two visual fields in such a way as to suggest that the right hemisphere was still using a visually-based strategy while the left hemisphere was using an acoustically based strategy . |
| 5 | If you are still using a standard radio system and only wish to execute the occasional loop or roll , then you can continue with your existing equipment , but you should realise that you are not going to be able to perform round loops or axial rolls . |
| 6 | They must allow for change while still maintaining a high degree of organizational integrity . |
| 7 | When Leith was not mutinying against him , she was alternately engaged — while still producing a fair output of work — in wondering if he had really been serious about taking her to Parkwood to meet Travis 's parents this weekend . |
| 8 | Tappersdorf was a few stops along the line — countrified and still keeping a rural quietness : poplars masked a factory , behind pre-war houses with steeply pitched roofs fields of sprouts stretched away , the sprouts looking oddly sentient as they stood in their patient , frosty queues , waiting to be picked . |
| 9 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 10 | She was still trembling a little inside , and the thought of staying here in this house on her own made her nervous . |
| 11 | All the major companies have commission schemes of one kind or another — English National Opera is committed to presenting one new commissioned work each season , while still nourishing a younger generation with workshops and studio productions , and the Royal Opera has its Garden Venture , dedicated to offering composers a first taste of music theatre on an affordable and manageable scale . |
| 12 | In Tibet Ngawang Buchung , a monk from the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa , is still serving a 19-year sentence imposed at a mass sentencing rally in November 1989 . |
| 13 | Another of the seven students , 20-year-old Wahyudi , a prisoner featured in the April/May 1989 issue , is still serving a seven-year sentence in Cilacap , Central Java . |
| 14 | It is a fortified monastery , restored in the nineteenth century but still containing a beautiful Romanesque nave ( see p. 11 ) and taller Gothic choir . |
| 15 | With modern designs , the correct method is to make the descent with some forward speed and then use this speed to flare like an aircraft , still holding a negative pitch setting ( Fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 16 | On the question of the public conveniences erm I feel there 's been a lot of discussion about this , this kind of issue and I feel that what we 've got now is a good agreement erm , we 've got still providing a good level of service with attendance at the central I do n't like referring to conveniences , at the time that they are most needed and I think that now I would n't like to see us go without that if we do n't really need to . |
| 17 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 18 | The Duchess , still wearing a dark-blue velvet evening dress from the night before , posed for pictures on the outside steps with the shooting party all around her . |
| 19 | Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie . |
| 20 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 21 | The total stress ( we are still considering a two-dimensional flow for which the boundary layer equations apply ) . |
| 22 | Even with the resignation in his pocket , Baldwin was still facing a nasty prospect in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 24 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 25 | and I know it 's too close but I 'm still getting a good wash . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's still getting a little money from it . |
| 27 | Always popular with older Jamaican audiences , from time to time he would perform on ‘ revival nights ’ , still giving a stirring performance on classics like ‘ Come Softly To Me ’ and ‘ Keep On Running ’ . |
| 28 | But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia . |
| 29 | The council is still spending a fair amount of its budget on tourism . |
| 30 | I was thus in the interesting position of paying to be patronized , asset-stripping my future and still cutting a despicable figure . |