Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone of , who was alive during that day still remembers it vividly , the day of the last mission . |
| 2 | The present sketch is the only remaining preparatory canvas for that work still in private hands and in the opinion of Vivian Endicott Barnett , author of the catalogue raisonné of the watercolours , the most important work from 1913 to remain in private hands . |
| 3 | The variety of their occupations gives a sense of the remarkably diverse bases for economic independence still open at the beginning of this century . |
| 4 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 5 | The earnings potential of a first degree student with one year of office experience is the same as that of a second degree student who after six years still only has one year of experience to offer . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , if share prices fall , the guarantee of money back after five years still stands . |
| 7 | It became clear that The Smiths would escape with expectations for future brilliance still intact from every quarter . |
| 8 | This hatred of accepted barriers was another throwback to his distaste for Victorian attitudes still practised in many Northern towns . |
| 9 | It is however prepared to advise on suitable locations for individual collections still in private hands . |
| 10 | Laura was still roughly chastising herself , and attempting to ignore the hard knot of unsatisfied desire still gripping her body , when Ross came back into the room . |
| 11 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 12 | This had been directed primarily at improving rural housing as an adjunct to public health policy , yet not only were the standards of rural amenities still markedly inferior ( for example , 5000 rural parishes possessed no sewerage system ) , but the sheer volume of housing available for rural workers remained inadequate — rural district councils built only 164083 dwellings between 1919 and 1943 , compared with which the number of private houses was 706527 . |
| 13 | If the abolition of private property still leaves the proletariat carrying out the orders of management , it remains an exploited class . |
| 14 | For all this , some practitioners of each trade still manage to combine the two . |
| 15 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 16 | Here a few fragments of painted stucco still remained and on these were painted a tangle of trailing flowers : roses , tulips and irises , some cut , some growing from the ground , others emerging from cornucopias — ancient symbols of fertility and plenty , merging and tangling with the real creepers of the jungle . |
| 17 | ( 1982 ) found that one-third of normal 3-year-olds still wet the bed three or more times a week . |
| 18 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 19 | During the twentieth century more houses became tied with the decline of the landlord — tenant system in farming and its replacement by owner-occupation , and since the Second World War the chronic shortage of housing in rural areas has increased the importance of tied cottages still further . |
| 20 | With a large population of working Dakotas still ploughing faithfully on , the marketplace for turbo conversions has great potential . |
| 21 | The emotions of that period still lived within him . |
| 22 | The sole surviving member of that family still lives in Cotherstone , just a few yards down the road from Hannah 's cottage . |
| 23 | Although many elements of that model still exist today , there is also quite widespread dissatisfaction with it , and there has been some attempt to find out why , and to modify these elements . |
| 24 | Impressions of that evening still remain . |
| 25 | Fraud is likely to occur only in sales of brand-name drugs still under patent . |
| 26 | There is a surprising number of medieval houses still standing , sometimes quite unexpectedly awaiting discovery . |
| 27 | The original bookcases of carved oak still lined the walls , although they now housed the Laboratory 's not inconsiderable scientific library , while extra shelf-room for bound copies of national and international journals had been provided by two steel movable units which divided the room into three bays . |
| 28 | Nervous , she drifted away towards another couple still standing by the door . |
| 29 | However so far , all attempts to bottle this ‘ smell ’ satisfactorily have failed , and how to use this aspect of sexual attraction still remains largely a mystery . |
| 30 | We have already told of another victim still too frightened to tell police of the day Courtney tried to rape her . |