Example sentences of "still [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Texas Instruments/Sun Viking and the Cypress/Ross HyperSparc chips are both still commercially unavailable . |
| 2 | And while there was some variation depending on the students ' IT subject area , other than in the still numerically small area of IKBS/MMI/AI , in no other subject did the proportion of SERC-funded students seeking employment fall below one quarter . |
| 3 | Fifteen years after it began , women are still numerically under-represented in high-status and decision-making areas of the discipline . |
| 4 | As a result , car-based development policies have tended to reduce the freedom of choice and quality of life of this still numerically significant section of the population , while dramatically increasing them for that section with regular access to a car . |
| 5 | In music , where there are still also patronal relations in commissioned works , there are still predominantly distributive post-artisanal relations in orchestral works and in traditional sheet music , while in popular music the second , productive post-artisanal phase has long been established , and there has been major movement into later phases of market relations . |
| 6 | Relations between a still predominantly oral culture and this important and growing sector ‘ within' it are then especially complex , and the point is soon reached when there is a qualitative difference between the oral area , which all share but to which most are confined , and the literate area , which is of increasing cultural importance but is at once minor and dominant . |
| 7 | Dramatic reductions in total fertility have been achieved in countries such as Thailand , still predominantly rural , and Bangladesh , despite extreme poverty , thanks to vigorous promotion of family planning . |
| 8 | This publication was a landmark only in its title ; the ‘ madrigals ’ are still predominantly note-against-note pieces , as are the majority of Verdelot 's later ones . |
| 9 | And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories , rather than working with their uncertainties . |
| 10 | An occasion marked by a speech from the president himself , Peter Mead of Abbot Mead Vickers , which was noticeably defensive although a few of the jokes might have been considered mildly offensive by one or two sections of society ( indicating that the IPA , like kindred bodies , is still predominantly white , male and middle-class ) . |
| 11 | The Argentines are still ethnically the same , the population still predominantly Italian , most of them havin' their roots in the south of Italy and in Sicily . |
| 12 | Recruitment was still predominantly local , and the low numbers who studied foreign languages in the sixth forms secured University places with little difficulty , and postponed their decision to teach . |
| 13 | Offa 's still rather distant control had been replaced by a permanent Mercian royal presence . |
| 14 | Although the comparative figures one year later of 10.5% and 4.1% are much more encouraging , the positive results of recovery are still rather distant which perhaps , reflects the depth of this particular recession . |
| 15 | Broodthaers , who was an installationist in the days when such work was still rather uncommon , became a guru to a select handful of French and later American artists — but his work remains , oddly , little known in New York . |
| 16 | By the 1970s , the " West Indian language problem " had been probed and discussed by educators and policy makers , but still rather little actual research had been done on the language of the Caribbeans . |
| 17 | The news is unlikely to be linked publicly to this still rather murky affair . |
| 18 | Such behaviour was still rather sinful to my innocent mind : many years were to pass before I gained a taste for traditional ale ! |
| 19 | It is possible to scan them with the existing equipment and incorporate their digitised image directly into the page design but the quality is still rather poor . |
| 20 | Again erm perhaps we ought to refer one , one of the still rather good stuff on this is from er , is from Thompson 's book . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm still rather tired after the birth , ’ she admitted , ‘ but I 'm getting stronger . ’ |
| 22 | Little conversation had passed between the two detectives until , an hour out of Oxford , Morse ( looking , as Lewis saw him , still rather tired ) had crossed those final ‘ t's . |
| 23 | Although that 's still rather small , compared to the future . |
| 24 | That 's not true , but even so it is still rather unclear quite what species the older garden crocuses do belong to — probably they are complicated hybrids between C vernus and Middle Eastern species . |
| 25 | Batty found Laura still rather reserved . |
| 26 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 27 | So a complex — and still rather expensive — receiving device is needed , in addition to a car radio ( which may , or may not , be equipped for conventional RDS decoding ) . |
| 28 | Still rather pale . |
| 29 | Interdisciplinary teamwork is now widely practised within hospitals and rehabilitation centres but is still rather unusual elsewhere . |
| 30 | Curiously , it is still rather unusual for solicitors ' partnership agreements to provide that partners should retire upon reaching an agreed age , though it might be thought that there are good reasons for making this a requirement in the interests of a firm 's long term planning . |