Example sentences of "were still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sawyers at the government mill at Kinlochrannoch were good friends of Cameron 's , and might try to bring out their neighbours , although they themselves were still felt to be incomers . |
| 2 | you 'd take with your insurance company to make sure you were still covered if anything untoward happened while , you know . |
| 3 | The rate of increase of river flow will be greater in the urbanized basin than it would be if the basin were still covered by natural vegetation . |
| 4 | Arriving back at the large beach house , she took the two sleepy children upstairs to their large bedroom , firmly overriding their protests that no , they really did n't want a bath by pointing out to them that they were still covered with sand and sea water . |
| 5 | Our announcing staff at CBR had been enhanced by the addition of Ray Mackness , Sheila Russell , Ted Devlin and Saul Ornest , but the main shows were still handled by the old reliables , Dick Halhed and Bill Herbert . |
| 6 | Unfortunately they carried no ammunition and all guns were still packed in grease . |
| 7 | ‘ We were still treated as kids when we were in the third year , well , we still are . ’ |
| 8 | They were still visited ; sacrifice was still made ; the deities were still honoured ; but the real seat of religious power now lay in the temples . |
| 9 | Collectivist principles were still seen ( by at least some on the left ) to provide a coherent and viable strategy that would both sustain economic growth and support the Welfare State . |
| 10 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |
| 11 | Notions of responsibility were still seen as of the essence , and the permanent , civil service , side of the state machine was still kept from focus . |
| 12 | Women were still seen as a valuable commodity , to be passed from father to husband , and at the accession of James I , any property a woman might hold would immediately become her husbands on marriage . |
| 13 | On the other hand , duodenal ulcers were still seen in comparable proportions in the presence or absence of NSAIDs , which could be because of other mechanisms of NSAID toxicity such as suppression of mucosal prostaglandins . |
| 14 | At the same time habit , and the realization that funding for the services would be tightly controlled ( if on a more generous scale than in the early 1930s ) , meant that the eastern Atlantic , the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean were still seen as regions which might primarily and appropriately be left to the British . |
| 15 | Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation . |
| 16 | Her birthday presents were still piled neatly on the chair in the corner , and her cards stood on the top of the dressing-table . |
| 17 | Legal , medical and religious texts , however , were still printed in gothic faces . |
| 18 | Most of the chairs , however , were not subject to such private patronage , but they were still employed for political purposes , though usually on a somewhat higher political level than Dempster intended . |
| 19 | Oath-helpers were still employed to swear to the good character of the accused ; but everywhere evidence as to the facts of the case grew more significant . |
| 20 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 21 | The bullets fired into the victim 's cranium were still lodged there . |
| 22 | The two sides , however , were still separated by traditional rivalries extending over several centuries as well as by differing interpretations of Marxism , disputed borders and rivalry in their relations with other countries ; indeed it was perhaps surprising that their earlier association had lasted as long as it did . |
| 23 | From then on , West Saxon became the official language of the laws and the charters , although the local dialects were still represented in more or less unsophisticated texts . |
| 24 | By March 31 Gamsakhurdia forces were said to be in retreat although railways and roads were still blocked . |
| 25 | Though most of the negotiations of 1558 – 59 which culminated in the peace of Cateau-Cambrésis were still conducted in Latin it is clear that French was also extensively used . |
| 26 | The builders , unfortunately , were still upstairs , and her classes were still conducted to the loud clank of hammering with attendant dust . |
| 27 | An announcement was made in 1921 to the effect that approximately 93,800 officers and men were still listed as ‘ missing ’ and unaccounted for , as a result of the Great War ; also the British Broadcasting Company was formed . |
| 28 | Their numbers were still listed in his address book , just a phone call away , but he felt squeamish about making contact . |
| 29 | Although by the turn of the century most of the food adulteration that had characterised the nineteenth century grocery trade had disappeared , customers were still cheated by unscrupulous retailers who gave short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging around products such as tea . |
| 30 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |