Example sentences of "still [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I can , I can understand what must be going through her mind , it must still of been a terrible time . |
| 2 | it was in my training , she but she had n't but your mother who never had before I could rely on her from a little child , I said stay there , when I came back , if I came back half an hour later , she 'd still of been there Linda would of been |
| 3 | Goldberg in Guardian today , major new work , still to be unveiled , but those who have seen it , etc . |
| 4 | a rigorous attempt to Think the limits of that principle of reason which has shaped the emergence of Western philosophy , science and technology at large … the activity of deconstruction is strictly inconceivable outside the tradition of enlightened rational critique whose classic formulations are still to be found in Kant ( Norris 's italics ) . |
| 5 | Such frightened insolence about Americans is still to be found in England , and among what the English regard as their intellectual and artistic elite . |
| 6 | And so there are still to be found Latinists who think that the hilarious mistranslations in his Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) were inadvertent rather than mischievously deliberate . |
| 7 | But the damage had been done , and Wilson 's elevation of Eliot at Pound 's expense was to be Echoed time and again for at least thirty years , and indeed is still to be heard even today . |
| 8 | A year later , the hoped-for jewel in the Next Steps crown , the Benefits Agency , will be up and away with its headquarters in a place still to be determined . |
| 9 | But copper , the major London Metal Exchange contract still to be denominated in pounds , did benefit . |
| 10 | That downturn remains a real risk in an industry where the true commercial prospects have still to be established . |
| 11 | Having won 15 of the rally 's 33 special stages , Biasion became world champion with the Ivory Coast and British rallies still to be run in a season spanning 13 events . |
| 12 | By a crowning touch of irony , the last-mentioned were still to be treated in the United Kingdom as equivalent to British subjects . |
| 13 | There are quite sufficient echoes here to direct the reader to Keats 's ‘ ode on a Grecian Urn ’ where he finds the urn ‘ With brede/ Of marble men and maidens overwrought , / With forest branches … ‘ and finds too scenes of love ‘ For ever warm and still to be enjoyed , / For ever panting , and for ever young — ’ as well as the heifer approaching the altar ‘ with garlands dressed ’ . |
| 14 | This tradition stressed how true Germanic society was still to be found in the organization of ancient local communities . |
| 15 | S is meant to stand for sporting but perhaps not too sporting , since both the RS2000 and Escort Cosworth are still to be put on sale . |
| 16 | William Assheton 's attitude to the design of the conversion was based on the view that although the building might function as a house , it ought still to be recognisable as a church . |
| 17 | Tuesday : Health questions ; questions to the Prime Minister ; debate on war crimes ; Electricity Supply ( Amendment ) ( Northern Ireland ) Order ; Ministerial and other salaries Order ; opposed private business ( still to be announced ) . |
| 18 | The letters show Professor Smith wanted the Government to increase the ceiling on foreign holdings in BAe to 30 per cent — to boost the value of the company — and that Lord Young knew then tax concessions still to be agreed with the Inland Revenue on the deal could amount to nearer £65 million than the £25 million suggested to the commission . |
| 19 | The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 20 | She hinted of an important secret still to be divulged . |
| 21 | In addition , the CEGB has more than doubled , from £3.1 billion to £6.4 billion , the extra provisions needed ‘ for work still to be carried out on nuclear fuel and wastes from past years ’ . |
| 22 | The EC itself has not attached environmental conditions in the cases of Poland and Hungary , but Carlo Ripa di Meana , the EC Environment Commissioner , has insisted that a sum ( still to be agreed ) must be set aside to bring the East 's environment up to scratch and there are proposals for training environmental managers . |
| 23 | Dory had already begun his motor-engineering apprenticeship , but Oscar and the young Julian , like Reggie , had still to be provided for . |
| 24 | Still to be given and received . |
| 25 | The main battle has still to be fought and won . ’ |
| 26 | Any rock and border plants still to be lifted , split-up and re-planted should be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 28 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 29 | It said there were matters still to be resolved in adapting the new novel , To Play a King , which depicts a King of England in crisis with an unscrupulous Prime Minister . |
| 30 | They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard . |