Example sentences of "[coord] still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight some of those workers … retired or still employed … may be worried about their future health . |
| 2 | Now in their late teens and twenties , most are either cramming for college exams or still stuck in cramming mode . |
| 3 | In contrast , the culture of precursors and purified epithelium alone remained small and was alymphoid , even though the epithelial cells had successfully formed an intact structure and still expressed a cortical epithelial cell phenotype , including MHC class II antigen expression ( b ) and ERTR4 ( ref.16 ) and 4F11E ( ref.17 ) expression ( not shown ) . |
| 4 | Iraq 's nuclear plans seemed to go into abeyance while it was reactorless and still bogged down in its costly war against Iran . |
| 5 | ‘ How he was thrown clear with his clothes blown off and still survived is a miracle . ’ |
| 6 | That thinking was still cast in the mould of a hundred years before ; the methods of conducting war at sea were still those of blockade , commerce-destroying and protection , and still depended ultimately on the ability to win a pitched gun-battle with the enemy fleet . |
| 7 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 8 | The salaries of government employees such as doctors and teachers were subject to inflation and still suffered from the Soviet concept of paying intellectuals less than manual workers . |
| 9 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 10 | She was happily pregnant and still sustained by the hills . |
| 11 | Two weeks on the beach at Mombasa , not in a hotel of course , but in the bungalow of an old friend who had survived freedom and independence in Kenya and still made a living out of East Africa 's import and export trade . |
| 12 | Those who believe Gerstner is a good choice for IBM point to his skill at cutting corporate expenses and willingness to pare payrolls , implying that IBM is a good but bloated company and conveniently forgetting that Akers cut IBM 's payroll by 25% and still ended up with unacceptable results . |
| 13 | The Rolling Stones guitarist said he was saddened by her frail health and still cared deeply for Mandy , now aged 22 . |
| 14 | Rather lovable in spite of all ’ — was recorded at age 7 and still remained on the secondary school record at age 14 . |
| 15 | It becomes clear from Boswell 's descriptions that this family were considerably less Anglicised than the Macdonalds on Skye , and still remained on the side of the Gaels . |
| 16 | These are just arbitrary conventions : they could have been different and still remained biologically realistic . |
| 17 | A Royal Doulton tea-service with a delicate floral pattern and still packed in white tissue paper . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Durham , Gateshead , Cleveland and Sunderland councils heaved a sigh of relief when they achieved standstill budgets and still saved over £6m between them . |
| 19 | He was fifty-five and still filled with plans for a united Spain . |
| 20 | The Habsburgs were the traditional enemy and still ruled ‘ unredeemed ’ Italians . |
| 21 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 22 | The strong showing of the two environmental parties — the Greens and Ecology Generation — who clearly benefited from a haemorrhage of votes from the socialists , must have convinced the President that the old party pulled together by him in 1971 and still led by its familiar herd of ‘ pink elephants ’ was doomed . |
| 23 | Chapman valued good sportsmanship highly , and still liked to be a good sport himself . |
| 24 | But his tone was still guarded and still edged with hostility . |
| 25 | In the PGA Championship at Inverness , he was four strokes in front of Bob Tway with only nine holes to play — and still lost , Tway holing from a bunker on the final green for a birdie . |
| 26 | United States players paid to play and still lost . |
| 27 | We continued to cut costs and still lost money . |
| 28 | A few recovered children occasionally clogged the toilet with their stools ( 4% ) , had abdominal pain ( 9% ) , and still exhibited stool withholding ( 5% ) . |
| 29 | And those that did have a cuckoo in their nest could have succumbed to it and still lived to rear another brood next season . |
| 30 | It can be argued that ‘ normalizing ’ the marked English structure is not a good strategy in this instance and that a slightly different but similarly marked Arabic structure ( using a particle such as inna ) would have preserved the prominence given by the writer to the first part of the statement ( Mr Rowland wants ) and still sounded natural in Arabic : |