Example sentences of "and still [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a complex — and still rather expensive — receiving device is needed , in addition to a car radio ( which may , or may not , be equipped for conventional RDS decoding ) . |
| 2 | It was pitch-black and still oppressively hot . |
| 3 | This is the traditional and still most widely-used way of making your characters speak . |
| 4 | My arrival only deepened the stupefaction of the few orderlies , never mind the patients , sprawled two or three to a straw sack and still well short of the size of a woman . |
| 5 | She was a plumpish woman , about ten years younger than her husband and still moderately pretty . |
| 6 | The word disturbed Maria for a while afterwards , although Cavell probably had n't given it any real thought , since she appeared so untroubled , her manner calmly confident and still strictly professional . |
| 7 | For Italian unions , in this respect , industry bargaining corresponded originally to a need to unite their scarce resources in order to guarantee uniform minimum conditions of work ‘ to an impoverished , fragmented and still mostly agricultural working class , privileging the weak sectors thereof with respect to the elite ’ ( Treu , 1981 , p. 135 ) . |
| 8 | The sheet was pulled up only as far as his hip , so that backs of her fingers touched his bare back , warm and still slightly damp . |
| 9 | ‘ Look at that , the ancient Barmaid Inn , rebuilt in 1420 and still as good as new ! ’ |
| 10 | Published four years ago and still relatively unknown , the book is modest in appearance and in size , its jacket is the reverse of eyecatching , there are no colour photographs , no packaging . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | There was no anticlimax as they entered the house ; it was grand , spacious and still very Spanish . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I thought the tramway quite remarkable in that the trackbed is sturdily built in stone and still very clear . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The Socialist government was attacked by the opposition for too much intervention and still too little decentralisation . |
| 18 | It is easier to hold the attention of the diners at the end of the meal while they are seated , and still too full to want to get up and start dancing . |
| 19 | Dana was pale and still half asleep . |
| 20 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |
| 21 | This compares with two in 1974 and still only two by 1979 . |
| 22 | Peter is most unhappy about his wife 's views on physical punishment and still more unhappy about the fact that she now expects him , as head of the household , to be the one who does the spanking . |
| 23 | They point out that under the first-past-the-post system a small swing in votes tends to produce a major change in parliamentary strength so " exaggerating " a party 's lead in parliament in a way that leads to sharp swings in policy when there are only small shifts in voting and still more limited changes in public opinion . |
| 24 | ( It is surprising to read in the Veterinarian of 1841 an article on the diseases of cats , and still more surprising to see the statement in the issue of 1850 that many practitioners were restricting themselves to dog practice ) . |
| 25 | Religious conviction , in that age , and still more religious observance , were seen as naturally conservative ; and the Christian revival of the 1940s was openly regressive , anxious above all that the world might be changing too fast and too far . |
| 26 | Incidentally Nu , which looks so ordinary , is still more luminous and still more remote . |
| 27 | It did nothing to improve the situation and still more distressing scenes occurred . |
| 28 | And it was to be followed in October by a second and still more menacing contest in another safe seat , South Paddington . |
| 29 | Several states felt the need for a supply of men with a knowledge of Turkish to ease the conduct of diplomatic , and still more commercial and consular , relations with the Ottoman empire . |
| 30 | From the seventeenth until the early nineteenth century , parish records suggest that over one-half of widows would normally have been provided with regular pensions on the rates ; and still more remarkable , when compared with working-class incomes , these pensions were twice as good as those offered by state pensions today ( see Fig. 1 ) . |