Example sentences of "[adv] still the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So still the future of the Mappa Mundi still hangs in the balance . |
| 2 | There 's also a market there for people who ca n't afford to buy new product , and obviously still the engine 's still got life in it . |
| 3 | It is apparently still the case that in some local , county gaols adults and juveniles are housed together , sometimes for periods of several weeks . |
| 4 | Thirdly , it is perhaps still the kind of theory with the most support in linguistic and philosophical circles , despite many dissenters and many unresolved problems . |
| 5 | For some , perhaps still the majority of contractors the agency deducts tax at source and pays Class I ( dependent employee 's ) social security contributions . |
| 6 | The Visby Protocol did not still the criticism of the Hague Rules . |
| 7 | When Hook , communing with his ego , murmured , ‘ How still the night is ; nothing sounds alive … split my infinitives , but ‘ t is my hour of triumph ’ , the mast creaked ominously and all but fell against the backcloth . |
| 8 | He looked down , seeing how still the boy had become , as if listening to his words , yet he was still asleep . |
| 9 | She manages her husband , who is rather eccentric to say the least , in a manner which suggests that he is officially still the head of the house . |
| 10 | If the balls had been fired higher still the sound would have rumbled like a cask being rolled over floorboards . |
| 11 | Yet still the darkness gathers . ’ |
| 12 | The room downstairs had grown quiet , yet still the Irishman had not emerged . |
| 13 | Yet still the budget has gone up . |
| 14 | Similar charitable schemes outside London were equally ineffective , yet still the COS and its associates refused to co-operate with local authorities in establishing larger schemes , despite the capacity and willingness of the latter to put the charitable funds to more effective use in such necessary activities as road-building . |
| 15 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 16 | A French lieutenant holding a bunker in the village noted that under the bombardment ‘ this vast block , 30 metres square , oscillated , at times actually rising up , like a ship ’ Yet still the suicide machine-gun nests stayed behind in the pulverised debris and mowed down the German assault waves . |
| 17 | He must have asked Sharpe a score of times to dress in Dutch uniform , yet still the Rifleman appeared in his ancient , tattered green coat . |
| 18 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 19 | The Ml has carved a path to the hinterland , yet still the cluster of towns around it seem autonomous from the centre . |
| 20 | Berlin is therefore still the destination for virtually all Soviet Jews arriving in Germany . |