Example sentences of "still the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're still the prettiest girl for miles around . |
| 2 | And it may be hot air … but it 's still the coolest way to travel . |
| 3 | Bush ended his speech by returning to the Desert War theme and informing his audience that " We are still the freest nation on earth ; the kindest nation on earth ; the strongest nation on earth ; and we have always risen to the occasion . |
| 4 | He is still the poorest man in the village . |
| 5 | The Spanish empire , which stretched over the American continent from California to the Straits of Magellan , was the most imposing political structure of the Western world ; to Napoleon it was still the greatest supplier of silver and to British merchants the greatest unexploited market . |
| 6 | The numbers change but the plight of the poor in the Third World is still the greatest issue of our times . |
| 7 | Still the greatest burglar deterrent known to man . |
| 8 | The Metropolitan was deposed and strangled , individual monasteries ransacked , and Novgorod , still the greatest city outside Moscow , was despoiled in a manner which made Ivan III ‘ s treatment of it a century earlier appear positively statesmanlike . |
| 9 | It was a symbolic , humiliating moment for Americans who had begun after the Reagan years to believe that , despite Vietnam , they were still the greatest nation on earth . |
| 10 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 11 | Simple theft is still the commonest variety of stealing . |
| 12 | ‘ Despite its many flaws of conception and execution , ’ he wrote , ‘ How I Won the War is still the nearest thing to an effective antiwar film that I 've yet seen . |
| 13 | Moon has had plenty of backers urging Davies to pick the Scarlets ' Englishman ahead of British Lion Jones , but Blyth insists : ‘ Robert is still the best scrum-half in Britain by miles . |
| 14 | The Grammar School was , indubitably , still the best school in the town but all this change on his doorstep was unsettling . |
| 15 | It is still the best foundation at postgraduate level . |
| 16 | The European Tennis Association is studying ways of restoring the prestige of the old King 's Cup , now the European Men 's Team Championship , which it describes as ‘ … still the best opportunity for European tennis nations to test their top , and up-coming players in international team competition . ’ |
| 17 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 18 | OWNING your home is still the best way for most people to live . |
| 19 | I love to anthropomorphise animals , because however patronising it may be , I think it 's still the best way of getting people to relate to them . |
| 20 | d s Surely , the testimonial system is still the best way of doing this . |
| 21 | Still the best HAIR TINT . |
| 22 | And Barnsley boss Mel Machin added : ‘ That proves Clive is still the best finisher around . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He is still the best man for the job , ’ declared Kelly . |
| 24 | It began in fact with what are perhaps still the best crime short stories to be found ; the tales of Sherlock Holmes . |
| 25 | It is sometimes argued that even if the sentences analysed in linguistics are abstractions , which sometimes sound very odd , they are still the best material for language study , because they isolate it from its context . |
| 26 | Even if foreign policy was not so fully rational in practice , this was still the best starting assumption , with ‘ utility ’ being glossed as ‘ power ’ . |
| 27 | I was thinking more of ‘ Tight Like This ’ , made in 1928 and probably still the best record ever made . |
| 28 | The prime example of what your looking for ie tallish , good in the air and commanding is Paul Whelan ( younger brother of Ronnie Whelan form Liverpool ( still the best midfielder in England ) ) . |
| 29 | It is the most important medium for getting known by the general public and affecting the attitude of employers but the theatre is still the best place for learning your trade . |
| 30 | ‘ Singapore was still the best place . ’ |