Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun pl] [be] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | A white Bordeaux from Sainte-Croix-du-Mont ( across the Garonne river from Sauternes ) , where the wines are still sweet , but lighter in style than their famous cousins . |
| 2 | A few men were willing to forgive or at least forget ; but the women hated her , for by deserting her man she had somehow disgraced every woman , and where the women were still united against her , what man dared help her openly ? |
| 3 | Over the eggs and bacon , eaten with bread and butter , Dolly said , ‘ Like you told me , there was n't anything in the paper about the murder except the police are still workin' on it . |
| 4 | It 's all over now although the papers are still ferreting around . |
| 5 | Both door posts have been previously dented and although the keeps are still in place , the doors , when fully open , touch the posts . |
| 6 | Introduction of the new machines with a more relaxed attitude toward third party hardware has meant that adding large screens in no longer a problem although the prices are still higher than a corresponding PC-based device . |
| 7 | And , although the words were still indistinguishable , there was no doubt that it came from within . |
| 8 | During 1944 the tide of war in the East turned against Japan , although the Allies were still far from her shores . |
| 9 | Although the trees are still leafless , I do not get a glimpse of the hall until it is within a stone 's throw , so hidden is it by a dense screen of boughs and underwood ; but I know it is near at hand , for an ancient archway spans the path leading to the farmyard , and just beyond the Tudor gateway bearing several clear-cut coats of arms . |
| 10 | Although the days were still warm and sunny , the evenings closed in early and the temperature soon began to dip as darkness approached . |
| 11 | Although the classics were still important , their grip was slackening in a competitive and utilitarian age . |
| 12 | At least he had been non-specific , so the chances were still good . |
| 13 | If the lights are still on |
| 14 | If the ingredients are still hot just place under a hot grill for a few minutes to brown the top . |
| 15 | He felt confused beneath Cornelius 's unwavering stare , unsure whether he had not betrayed himself by patting his pocket to check if the photographs were still there . |
| 16 | The total replacement cost , if the books were still in print , would be £800 , Cleveland County Council 's community development committee was told . |
| 17 | If the superpowers are still perceived as dominant , it is for other reasons . |
| 18 | The board says that if the animals are still there it may seek a court order to remove them , though church law would make it difficult to evict the Reverend himself . |
| 19 | Changes in the marginal distribution of the response variable will always produce changes in differences in proportions , even if the cells are still distributed in the same proportion ; if , for example , the supply of selective school places doubled but the class composition of the schools remained the same , d would change . |
| 20 | We do not believe that its two main provisions have a necessary part in this year 's legislative programme unless they are intended to enable the privatisation of British Coal next year if the Tories are still in power . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 22 | It was held that there was no breach of the condition implied by the Sale of Goods Act as to merchantable quality , because the pellets were still saleable , albeit at a reduced price . |
| 23 | But that stretch of beach itself still tends to lose material further to the east , because the winds are still coming from the southwest predominantly , still driving the , the beach material along . |
| 24 | He also wished to leave because the nuns were still engaged in the obsequies preceding the funerals of their two dead colleagues . |
| 25 | ‘ Mountain chicken is not available , ’ she added , ‘ because the frogs are still in their breeding season . ’ |
| 26 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ You mean while the lights are still up ? ’ |
| 28 | I knew to leave the door open , as I knew to clear a path to the kitchen door , while the chairs were still hand-stripped pine to me . |
| 29 | While the arms are still in the air , they make circling motions , first in a clockwise , then in an anti-clockwise direction , about 20 times . |
| 30 | Moreover the developers of new applications are increasingly doing their work on workstations , while the maintainers are still stuck on the mainframe itself . |