Example sentences of "[noun prp] still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He emphasized that Britain 's weakness and vulnerability robbed that country of the options which the United States still possessed in dealings with the USSR ; hence the British interest in peaceful co-existence . |
| 2 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ We put on a substitute , Tony Dobson , as a second marker and Waddle still produced crosses . ’ |
| 4 | Even so , after beating the cut by only one shot , Faldo still finished joint 12th , though his season never took off . |
| 5 | Gorbachev still identified internationalism as the policy which could deal most effectively with problems of this kind . |
| 6 | There is , they held , no supernatural God of the kind Hegel still believed in ; there is only man , and it is the human spirit which finds oblique expression in religion and theology . |
| 7 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 8 | Oh has Johnny still got it ? |
| 9 | SPURNED police pleas to land after Donna still refused to talk to him ; and |
| 10 | She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known . |
| 11 | Their report warned , however , that forest loss in Brazil still constituted " an environmental disaster " . |
| 12 | Two years later they married , with Jane still based at Gombe while he kept his home and work in Dar es Salaam . |
| 13 | Moma Parsheen still floated blindly near the plascrystal port . |
| 14 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 15 | Du Bois still presided , but the United States sent few other delegates . |
| 16 | Nigel still hung on to the wedding ring . |
| 17 | There it was revealed that the first born children of Aenarion still lived . |
| 18 | IT was out with the old and in with the new and despite the result , Darlington manager Ray Hankin still found much to praise about Quakers ' performance after another home defeat sent them closer to the Fourth Division . |
| 19 | Eventually , the rating was revised in America , but Nicholson still faced problems in Canada and Europe . |
| 20 | But with Washington still committed to military victory in Afghanistan , cutting weapons supplies is a sensitive proposition . |
| 21 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 22 | In 1960 EFTA still hoped for a multilateral solution , within the ambit of the OECD , to the economic differences between the two organisations . |
| 23 | Translation — with both Sega and Nintendo still locked in combat for the pre-pubescent male dollar , anything that might alienate little boys ( eg girlie games ) is still a definite no-no . |
| 24 | That is where , or so he had been told , Brighton still offered a whiff of the cosmopolitan , esoteric atmosphere of the Left Bank in Paris or a hint of Berlin 's former decadence . |
| 25 | Even when we played and beat Arsenal two weeks ago , Ian still scored twice . |
| 26 | Unfortunately the post of armourer was not granted to James Graham , but the need to placate Provost Christie still produced action at the Board of Ordnance which transferred the Master Gunner of Stirling Castle to Portsmouth and commissioned the provost 's son-in-law to succeed to the Stirling post . |
| 27 | And the fear of what had happened in Germany still lived with him . |
| 28 | Although consumption has fallen by 25% since 1979 , in 1983 West Germany still imported over 100 million tonnes and remains Europe 's biggest energy importer and consumer . |
| 29 | Even on days like this with the sun cracking the pavements Sarah still cooked . |
| 30 | A year after the first warning , Mr Cannon still weighed over 20 stone . |