Example sentences of "[Wh pn] still [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lebanese parliament is expected to continue its informal sessions here until the weekend — when the MPs will face the real ( and potentially frightening ) task of returning to Lebanon to account for their words in front of the sometimes sinister figures who still control the land . |
| 2 | The peasants , who still constituted the majority of the population , were more affected by their feelings of material oppression and their opposition to the arbitrary rule of their masters . |
| 3 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
| 4 | But it is stars of the theatrical and cinematic world — or certainly the matinee idols of that world — who still regard the term with such anxiety . |
| 5 | Of course , there are plenty of bands around who still shun the use of a digital recording system in favour of its analogue forbears , but fings ai n't want they used to be and DAT 's the truth . |
| 6 | Against all odds , too , smallholders persisted in trying to grow com , for ploughing and reaping , rather than minding sheep , was held to be a man 's proper work ; the argument that the cornfield was the nursery of archers , who still formed the backbone of English armies , looks like a rationalisation of this instinct . |
| 7 | That left Smith free to deliver the coup de grace to Glyn Charles , the only other helmsman who still had a chance of beating him . |
| 8 | Terran employees who still had the faculty of independent mobility fled , understandably , with everything they could lay their hands on . |
| 9 | Anybody who still sports a Beatle cut must be a hippie at heart |
| 10 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 11 | Any researcher who still poses the problem of cognitive difference across cultural groups must confront this literature and take account of these arguments . |
| 12 | ‘ The receivers , who still own the building , are open to offers , and we are now very hopeful of a firm proposal being received in the next few days , ’ said Mr Souness . |
| 13 | Henceforward Ste Barbe depended on the sometimes exigent tolerance of the Scots , who still dominated the area politically . |
| 14 | The landed interests , who still dominated the House of Commons as well as the House of Lords , were outraged : ‘ a more distinct and determined invasion of the rights of property could not have been devised ’ . |
| 15 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 16 | His mother , Emilie , was an older sister of the republican and anticlerical historian , also a folklore enthusiast , Raoul de Kercoz , who still maintained the family manor of Kernemet . |
| 17 | The terror was cold-blooded and deliberate , designed to eradicate all opposition , secure the Nationalist rearguard and instil fear into those who still awaited the rebel advance . |
| 18 | John G. is a shy , virginal youth who still shares a room with his widowed father . |
| 19 | The committee agreed to write to Mr Rifkind , environment minister David Trippier , Richmond MP William Hague and former Richmond MP Sir Leon Brittan , now a European Commissioner who still has a home in Wensleydale . |
| 20 | And lackeys in the Press would be better off directing their fire at the Premier , who still has a job , than at the millions who do n't |
| 21 | We owe a lot to Tom who still has a fondness for his kites , although he is better known in the 1990s as the creator of the GeoSphere Project , a spectacular image of the Earth produced from over 2000 satellite images . |
| 22 | It would make an ideal present for a young person whose railway consciousness was just being awoken and , perhaps , light reading for the more railway aware person who still has a hankering to remain in touch with history . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if there is someone in his past who still has a place in his heart , you do need to know about it before you can deal with it . |
| 24 | Once again , Mr John Hume must justify continuing to devise an ‘ overall strategy ’ with Mr Gerry Adams , who still has the gall to claim that ‘ peace ’ is a central part of his party 's platform . |
| 25 | You 've got the original ones … who still have a caring for the school , but the newer teachers … they 've got no caring for it and there 's no consistency in the school . ’ |
| 26 | People who have been conditioned to this kind of reading pattern and who still have the habit of frequenting their local library require similar fare there . |
| 27 | Is that not merely a last act of spite by a Government who still bear a grudge against London ? |
| 28 | It is my strong impression that it is probably a very small MI5 mafia who have been out of the service for some time , who still continue the vendetta for no doubt extremely right-wing purposes of their own . |
| 29 | Mengele 's family , who still run a machine factory in his home town of Gunzburg , kept in regular touch with him through letters . |
| 30 | But another set of presidential advisers , based not in the Kremlin but in offices of the Russian government , are engaged in daily trench warfare with the conservative apparatchiks who still run the bureaucracy . |