Example sentences of "[pron] be still [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi abolished the office of shaikh , but the duties still existed : someone was still needed to certify residence and good behaviour , to register or witness certain kinds of contract . |
| 2 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 3 | And er so , so , so we are er ou out of this it 's er we 're still , we 're still committed to land reform are we ? |
| 4 | But something is still needed to explain Nietzsche 's willingness to commit himself so totally at this particular time ; and the November meeting , usually taken to be the cause , can not by itself have been sufficient . |
| 5 | By midday they were still agreed to leave Steve out of it , but Gabriel was telephoning Coffin . |
| 6 | Lower Mill continued in sporadic use up to the early 1970s , when it was still used to grind animal feed for the adjacent farm . |
| 7 | The reforms at the Exchequer , which re-emerged in 1554 as the central office of royal finance , were significant in altering its detailed procedure but left unchanged its fundamental nature and purpose : it was still designed to receive cash , pay the royal debts , and audit accounts , not to exercise full control over national finances by drawing up budgets , monitoring expenditure , and increasing revenues . |