Example sentences of "still [verb] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest army in the world was recruited mainly from the peasantry , and , as has been seen in the provinces , the party still relied heavily in 1922 on ex-army men to act as leaven among the ‘ dark people ’ . |
| 2 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 3 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 4 | The achievement of the men of '58 — they played superbly to reach the final only to lose to Dublin — is still recalled proudly in Derry . |
| 5 | There is evidence to show that after six to seven years of an immersion program , productive use of the second language still differs considerably in grammatical and lexical ways from that of native speakers . |
| 6 | It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed , but the colt that it startled from among the gorse , which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon , outdistanced it at a canter ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | Scathach slung the clothing he had looted across one of the horses which still paced nervously in the enclosure . |
| 8 | My father still lives there in the house where I grew up . ’ |
| 9 | The firecrackers were still exploding intermittently in the courtyard and occasional salvos of cannon fire boomed out from beyond the walls of the Imperial City . |
| 10 | But you see what we 've got here is this problem of the old definition of quality , still lurking there in the mind , quality is a degree of excellence , therefore you have high quality and low quality . |
| 11 | Magnificent beaches , clear waters and endless sunshine characterise this glorious island , popular with sun lovers but still forgotten enough in parts to be tranquil and deserted . |
| 12 | Even if the reason is economic , technical or organisational the employer must still act reasonably in selecting and dismissing each employee . |
| 13 | During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a school of Dalmatian humanists , still writing mainly in Latin or Italian prose and poetry , broke away from the narrow ecclesiastical concerns of men like Thomas and became part of the mainstream of the European Renaissance . |
| 14 | I still believed implicitly in Tony DeFries and I 'm not trying to put Tony down by this at all . |
| 15 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 16 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 17 | The organization had already terminated its activities at the outbreak of war , although members still met unofficially in Gilbert 's house . |
| 18 | Though still rather austere , the city and suburban villa ‘ scattered homes ’ , housing between twelve and twenty children and their attendants , were a considerable improvement on the vast institutions still operating elsewhere in the country . |
| 19 | A barter economy still prevailed widely in 1922 , so that alcohol was a money substitute that kept and travelled better than grain . |
| 20 | Asik 's faith in God was rapidly decreasing and the only reason he still trusted God was because the memory of his dear mother still lingered somewhere in the back of his now muddled mind . |
| 21 | The wheel he had mounted on a bit of rod from Stewart 's smithy still turned freely in the burn at the side of the kail-yard . |
| 22 | And the great thing is they 've taken that opportunity and erm thankfully we are still lying there in second place . |
| 23 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
| 24 | Although still ranking lowest in the official hierarchy , merchants ' expanding wealth and influence , and the degree to which the samurai ruling class was dependent on them , constituted a major anomaly within the system . |
| 25 | He cast a sour look at the leaves which still danced joyously in his path . |
| 26 | I was found asleep under a hedge , a partly sampled bottle still clutched protectively in my hands . |
| 27 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 28 | That little Chinese painting in its neat black and gold frame and with Seto More 's inscription and ‘ chop ’ on the back has hung on our walls in many parts of the world ever since and it is still admired here in England . |
| 29 | The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other . |
| 30 | Giving herself a good talking to , and ruthlessly ignoring those silly , pathetic yearnings still buried deep in her subconscious , had always worked in the past . |