Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] were still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of her ideas about sex and marriage seemed old-fashioned compared with various loudly expressed opinions she had heard from other nurses , and her steps towards the lighter side of life were still very tentative , as Deana 's blunt accusations last week had shown her . |
| 2 | The tiny islands of Quemoy and Matsu just off the coast of China were still in the possession of the Chinese Nationalists . |
| 3 | The majority of branches were still in existence , though without any co-ordinating machinery . |
| 4 | When age was introduced as a concomitant variable , the differences in absorption of PEGs were still significant ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 5 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 6 | Registrations for the degree of PhD were still to be through the CNAA . |
| 7 | Though most of the negotiations of 1558 – 59 which culminated in the peace of Cateau-Cambrésis were still conducted in Latin it is clear that French was also extensively used . |
| 8 | That thinking was still cast in the mould of a hundred years before ; the methods of conducting war at sea were still those of blockade , commerce-destroying and protection , and still depended ultimately on the ability to win a pitched gun-battle with the enemy fleet . |
| 9 | He also said that all the directors of the Bank of Edinburgh were still in place . |
| 10 | In BR , Robbins ( 1986 ) found that vacancies for the entry grade to the train drivers ' ( ‘ footplate ’ ) line of promotion were still advertised only through internal channels . |
| 11 | Many of the villages which had been on the line of march were still depressed ; Hurstpierpoint was worth a third of what it had paid in the days of the Confessor . |
| 12 | Debates on the relation of divine and human in Christ were still not entirely over . |
| 13 | At least two of the journalists seized at the Marriott hotel on Wednesday were still feared to be in pro-Noriega hands yesterday . |
| 14 | Rugs , clothing , mielies , were tossed on top of the buses while the first load of passengers were still trying to reach their luggage . |
| 15 | I remember the old days when layouts were readable , ZZAP ! cost under two quid and a packet of polos were still ten pence . |