Example sentences of "[was/were] still [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much US media interest in the summit was taken up by the issue of whether there were still US prisoners of war alive in the former Soviet Union and whether information was available on US soldiers declared missing in action ( MIA ) . |
| 2 | He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune-Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . |
| 3 | Many of them had worked closely with President Mikhail Gorbachev and five were still CPSU members . |
| 4 | Panama was five thousand miles away , but you could n't be too sure : it was still America 's backyard . |
| 5 | Of course , her name was still Juliet Avery , but names meant nothing , did they ? |
| 6 | During 1985–6 in the Caribbean the script-writer was still West Indian . |
| 7 | Their activities at the start of NEP are studied in the chapter devoted to the cultural capital , which was still Petrograd rather than Moscow in 1922 . |
| 8 | His name was still Felix Henderson McMurdo . |
| 9 | Ali was still Cassius Clay then . |
| 10 | Though it was still Mariella Frostrup , rather than the male presenter , having a cosy chat with the singer Kim Mazelle about her clothes and make-up , and exchanging details about their designer suits . |
| 11 | May slid into June and Midnight was still Miss Jarman 's prisoner . |
| 12 | I stated my objections : first , there was still Lauda there and with Niki in the Number One seat , Mario could n't possibly accept that . |
| 13 | For another , there was still Barney to worry about . |
| 14 | Lorna Lewis might not have made a picture since a flopperoo called It Happened in Monte Carlo three years ago , but she was still Hollywood royalty . |
| 15 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 16 | Moreover the prior , who was the effective day-to-day head of the community , was still Henry , who shared Lanfranc 's doubts about the native saints . |
| 17 | As successor to David Jack , he earmarked Ray Bowden , Plymouth Argyle 's stylish winger — on the recommendation of Jack 's father , who was still Argyle 's manager . |
| 18 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 19 | He had by now forgotten the faces of many of the girls he had run around with , and Peter Dawson was dead , but there was still Isobel , the one steadying influence in his life . |
| 20 | Until recently she was still Shanna Jackson . |
| 21 | If Richard was to step into his dead brother 's shoes then why should not John — for as yet John was still Lackland — step into Richard 's shoes ? |
| 22 | She was still Jazzbeaux . |
| 23 | On Coricancha , the Inca sun temple , the Spaniards imposed the church of Santo Domingo : yet Coricancha , though long stripped of its golden sheathing , was still Samson — blinded , chained , but with all his dignity intact . |