Example sentences of "[noun sg] still [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Coilus and his Britons were camped near the River Doon , not far from the shores of the little loch still called Loch Fergus . |
| 2 | ( a ) Beer Small resort , joined on to larger Seaton , with fishing still important . |
| 3 | Is your granddad still alive ? |
| 4 | I cull , in the only possible order : the 10 subscribers to London 's first telephone exchange , why golf courses have 18 holes , the 36 metre tower which rounds up Germany 's highest mountain to a neat 3000 metres , the 47 teeth of the mosquito , the 79 men kissed non-platonically by an ‘ average ’ woman in the US prior to marriage , the 159 hack SF books written by Britain 's R. L. Fanthorpe in 13 years , the 163 villages erased by Krakatoa , the 380 kg of Moon rock still unexamined thanks to Senator Proxmire 's money-saving efforts … |
| 5 | Immense light still bright behind the edges |
| 6 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 7 | In our medical blocks oxygen was laid on in pipelines , but as surgical patients seldom needed continuous oxygen for long periods , the surgical side still used cylinders . |
| 8 | The brown river flowing through the embryonic gorge , one side still soft and green , the other barren but starred with cactus like stiff fingers . |
| 9 | With the taste of blood still hot on her tongue , she sang in a long , keening cry of the joys of the kill … |
| 10 | Here in Langdale an ewe stood weakly , blood still damp on its haunches as its offspring staggered in the shock of birth , cord still trailing in the grass . |
| 11 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 12 | His lips were slack , his mouth still full of food . |
| 13 | More people had been drawn to the area since Stephen had been there , but the settlement was still small and the opportunities for the adventurous pioneer still great . |
| 14 | Carrying torches to light their way , they all reached the shore safely , but to their dismay found the wind still unfavourable , and the sea too rough to allow them to get away . |
| 15 | The surrounding countryside is quite dramatic with the legacy of the vast lead mining industry still evident . |
| 16 | I drank fears like wormwood , yea , made myself drunken with bitterness ; for my ever-shaping and distrustful mind still mingled gall-drops , till out of the cup of hope I almost poisoned myself with despair … |
| 17 | On the other hand , the little girl locked within her subconscious mind still linked thoughts of childbirth with her mother 's comment that it ‘ nearly killed me ’ . |
| 18 | Juliet still felt muzzy from sleep , her mind still full of Mrs Maybury and the colander . |
| 19 | He turns the voice off , a remedy still available to him , but for how long ? |
| 20 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 21 | The brilliant calculational successes can seem a little brittle when they are coupled with the degree of conceptual confusion still present . |
| 22 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | He continued to campaign successfully without ever managing to secure the British title he wanted to win and retired in 1939 with the racist rule still intact . |
| 24 | I I 'd like to see it retained chair because criterion three says generally within ten miles of York and er I 'm sure somebody would er argue that well that 's only a general rule still acceptable |
| 25 | On the landlord 's action to recover the balance of the rent still unpaid from the defendant company : — |
| 26 | That , probably , was why her left hand remained bare and the date of their wedding still uncertain . |
| 27 | Are Ampère 's law and Biot-Savart 's law still valid ? |
| 28 | With her father 's fate still undecided , he had caught her cruising the shops as though she had n't a care in the world . |
| 29 | I think tennis still growing and it 's a very exciting time to be involved . ’ |
| 30 | At £5 per quarter , this rarity is not exactly a budget snack , but with a focaccia still warm from the oven and accompanied by a few herb-steeped olives , it could be the most extraordinary sandwich you ever eat . |