Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] still [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | NICK HASTED investigates the often perilous journey from printed page to silver screen , reveals a few stories still waiting in the wings — and dares film-makers to have a crack at some of literature 's more , erm , cerebral delights … |
| 2 | Everyone here seemed busy and it was apparent that the few gipsies still remaining in this part of the forest were on the move . |
| 3 | This was the nineteenth-century English approach , and many such offences still survive in the Offences against the Person Act 1861 ( relating , for example , to injuries caused by gunpowder , throwing corrosive fluid , failing to provide food for apprentices , setting spring guns ) . |
| 4 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 5 | Yet questions remain about those many schools still locked in the traditional relationship of ‘ casual acquaintances ’ or ‘ bureaucrat and claimant ’ discussed earlier . |
| 6 | They have not long entered the twentieth century and in many ways still live in the past . |
| 7 | Despite the extensive decline , it is possible that more Redshanks still nest in Sussex today than did in the 19th century . |
| 8 | We were like those skeletons still embracing in the dust of their vanished flesh and dead desires . |
| 9 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 10 | THAT night Maggie had a dream she had not had for over two years and woke up sweating and anxious , her own cries still ringing in her mind . |
| 11 | In June of 1684 Sir John Lowther of Stockbridge wrote to Sir Daniel asking him to make enquiry if there were any men still living in the area who might have worked the copper mines at Caldbeck Keswick or elsewhere in Cumberland . |
| 12 | The narrowest , Pound Street , passed between a lake and an overhanging church wall ( both features still exist in 1982 — the roads to have been served were largely those served currently by London Country buses ) . |