Example sentences of "[adv] still [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was lying so still Carrie thought she was dead , but when she got up to run and call Hepzibah she saw that her chest was still moving and knew she was only asleep . |
| 2 | A tight-fitting cover or better still cling film will help reduce the deaths because cold draughts seem to be partly to blame . |
| 3 | Better still girls , you could get your guys to buy them . |
| 4 | This was somehow still Alain 's task , still his right . |
| 5 | Even at the point of death we are nevertheless still members of a social group — be it a family , a hospital ward , a platoon of soldiers , or whatever . |
| 6 | But he maintained the government would not be providing extra money for SSDs to help establish a provision system for these young people , who are technically still children . |
| 7 | My parents split up but they were always still friends including my step-dad , they were all close . |
| 8 | Stoppard 's most popular play is probably still Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , and he has had notable success with Jumpers , Travesties , and , more recently , The Real Thing . |
| 9 | It first produced the glories of Bath , and later still Buxton and a whole series of resort towns such as Tunbridge Wells , Cheltenham and Leamington Spa . |
| 10 | Later still hands loosened her collar . |
| 11 | Indeed , I 'm not er sure that there are n't still members of both our organizations who believe that right now each of us is supping with the devil . |
| 12 | Well still Mark will be there . |
| 13 | Earlier still Augustine said , ‘ I doubt , therefore truth is . ’ |
| 14 | Earlier still Jenny ( 1941 ) in his Factors of Soil Formation had expressed any soil character in terms of climate ( cl ) , organisms ( o ) , relief ( r ) , parent material ( p ) time ( t ) , and other additional unspecified factors in the relation : |
| 15 | However , perhaps the most interesting of the inhibitors from my point of view was introduced by Reinhard Jork , working with Hans-Jurgen Matthies of Magdeburg , in what was then still East Germany . |
| 16 | They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects . |
| 17 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 18 | 1.3 " IF A , EVEN IF X , THEN STILL B " |
| 19 | To be more explicit , it is simplest to take the particular formulation of the independent conditional just suggested , and anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , in place of If R and C , even given any X consistent with R and C and W , then still W. That is , let us have this : Given the world as it is , or given any changes in it logically consistent with R and & and W , then if R and & then W. From these two things it follows-as from if A , then if B then C , and A , it follows that if B then C — that if R and C , then W. From this in turn , together with C , there follows the dependent conditional if R then W. To repeat , let us have the statement ( Y ) describing the actual events and conditions accompanying r and & in the world as it is , and the disjunctive statement ( K ) to the effect that the world is in one way or another otherwise , logically consistent with R and C , and W. Then our premisses and conclusion are as follows . |
| 20 | They can , as we know , take the form illustrated by this " if " statement of our current example : if R and C , even if X , then still W. Their meaning is evidently quite other than that of dependent conditionals , since they are in part and in a way general . |
| 21 | Sometimes still Ruth was late . |
| 22 | Yet still Lesley still did not give up , keeping after her attacker and sending a radio SOS to police control with her call sign , Delta Romeo Three Two . |
| 23 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 24 | Yet still Britain is nicknamed ‘ the dustbin of Europe ’ . |
| 25 | Yet still God wears the dress of healer . |