Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] [be] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a farce , a terrible play , but still a real play because these two were acting out a charade of fright and face-saving and if he did anything to break the illusion that they were still taking decisions for themselves then he was going to get himself shot . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind that I 'm still finding my way around Symphony , I fear that every next step might lock the processor . |
| 3 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 4 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 5 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 6 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 7 | Its use of mutation and chance seems to occur within restraints ; within an algorithm that we are still trying to decipher . |
| 8 | Can I put Clifford 's point to the point that we 're still discussing er which is about the surplus and how both your legal frameworks you 're advocating relate to the answers you 've given us about surplus and the concern about surplus . |
| 9 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 10 | Are you seriously telling the court that you are still awaiting the results of examinations from the forensic laboratory ? ’ |
| 11 | Members of the Police Federation have admitted that ‘ anything short of total independence will fail to stifle the cry from outside the service that we are still judging our own ’ . |
| 12 | HAVING vague recollection from reading accounts of English milords on the Grand Tour in the 18th century that there was a nourishing fake industry around the Mediterranean , I was intrigued to learn from Oxford 's Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art that it is still going . |
| 13 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 14 | Nick Thenotsy is chairman of Oxfordshire 's NUPE , Nick do you think this is good or bad news that they 're still talking ? |
| 15 | In such a situation , it is hard to believe Zarei 's claim that he is still enjoying running , but an essential part of the make-up of any top ultra runner is a fierce determination to test themselves to the limit . |
| 16 | ’ I have stabilized at Halflight speed , ’ I heard Posi say — and found myself almost babbling with relief that she was still functioning . |
| 17 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 18 | It was not as easy as that because , when he put his head forward , he saw in the mirror that he was still lifting his chest and arching his back . |
| 19 | Simpson blew his nose again , and Jimmy saw with satisfaction from the handkerchief that it was still bleeding . |
| 20 | Everyone planning to start a baby should check with their doctor that they are still protected against German Measles . |
| 21 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 22 | One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention . |
| 23 | Books Etc was , he said , ‘ perturbed by the fact that we are still seeing a galaxy of British paperbacks at the airside of Heathrow terminals presented with a flourish as ‘ unavailable elsewhere in the UK ’ ’ . |
| 24 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |
| 25 | They have reservations concerning their middle jumper , Tony Copsley , aside from the fact that he is still labelled , as exemplified by that marvellously unfortunate tattoo on his behind , ‘ Made in England . ’ |
| 26 | Also , company 1 , by focusing on decreasing margins through time , rather than the fact that it is still earning better margins than a rival , may be ‘ bearish ’ and let company 2 get established in the market too easily . |
| 27 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |
| 28 | The only remarkable thing about me was the fact that I was still doing a holiday job at the age of forty . |
| 29 | Moving on to look at the fact I mean you had erm and it is n't the fact that you 're still working in the shop , you 're still helping the shop , you 've had forty years in which you actually lived here did n't you ? about forty years ? |
| 30 | Then she leaned against it , realising that in spite of the fact that she was still wearing her ski jacket in the warm flat , she was shivering again . |