Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] were still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small but dangerously exciting trickles of pleasure were still winging their way through her virtually defenceless body . |
| 2 | The towering cliffs of Gibraltar were still all too clearly visible . |
| 3 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 4 | It is also true that there were moments , like the 1720s , the 1780s and to a lesser extent the 1750s , when their establishment was especially noticeable , but even where they existed , large numbers of claimants were still relieved at home . |
| 5 | Great shards of glass were still lying around as a net curtain flapped inside the shattered frame of the blue front door of number 52 . |
| 6 | Despite the growing importance of state intervention through macroeconomic planning and industrial policies , the essential decisions about investment were still taken by the controllers of private capital , on the basis of private profitability . |