Example sentences of "and still very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian nationalism , an official ideology in the late Tsarist period and still very strong today , helped to create an attitude towards the West which combined an admiration for its prosperity and efficiency with a deep contempt for its petty-mindedness and commercialism : a ‘ peculiar amalgam of love and hate ’ , as Isaiah Berlin has described it , combining intellectual respect and envy with emotional suspicion , hostility and contempt . |
| 2 | An earlier , and still very useful , book-length exposition is the volume published by the International Labour Office ( 1974 ) , whilst for the EEC countries there is the survey of the Commission of the European Communities ( 1979 ) . |
| 3 | There was no anticlimax as they entered the house ; it was grand , spacious and still very Spanish . |
| 4 | The old and still very popular variety ‘ Old Blush China ’ is reputedly ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ of the nineteenth-century poet Thomas Moore , no doubt due to its remarkable reluctance to stop blooming each autumn . |
| 5 | I thought the tramway quite remarkable in that the trackbed is sturdily built in stone and still very clear . |
| 6 | This is a vast and still very valuable chronicle of sexual behaviour and beliefs , essentially descriptive in form , ostensibly classifying and categorising sexual forms that exist ‘ in nature ’ . |