Example sentences of "still [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft 1991 budget presented by Finance Minister Theo Waigel on Nov. 14 required spending cuts of DM35,000 million ( US$23,645 million ) , after which the 1991 public-sector deficit was still calculated to rise dramatically to DM140,000 million or 5 per cent of GNP . |
| 2 | Despite their amateur appearance , passers-by still stopped to cheer and clap . |
| 3 | Rebecque , sensing that the Prince still intended to dance despite the news of a French invasion , cleared his throat . |
| 4 | It was something he still intended to do , but he felt he should be at a peak of confidence to arrange such an encounter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In spite of renewed trouble in the country , he said the group still intended to recruit more staff and was inviting bids from local firms not only to translate OfficePower into local languages , but also to become ICL 's number one supplier to the retail sector . |
| 7 | A faint radiance , investing what remained of the roof , indicated that , whatever happened , dawn still intended to come . |
| 8 | The reforms at the Exchequer , which re-emerged in 1554 as the central office of royal finance , were significant in altering its detailed procedure but left unchanged its fundamental nature and purpose : it was still designed to receive cash , pay the royal debts , and audit accounts , not to exercise full control over national finances by drawing up budgets , monitoring expenditure , and increasing revenues . |
| 9 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 10 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 11 | And er so , so , so we are er ou out of this it 's er we 're still , we 're still committed to land reform are we ? |
| 12 | Scu 's still expected to continue in racing , helping out his business partner and next door neighbour in Naunton … |
| 13 | Apple is still expected to proceed with the tattered case on the few elements that were not thrown out , including the idea of using a picture of a dustbin to signify deletion of a file and the way Windows handles type fonts . |
| 14 | Mortality rates are still expected to improve and , if anything , the gap between men and women is likely to widen rather than narrow . |
| 15 | Soviet forces , meanwhile , were still expected to overrun much of Western Europe , the Middle and Far East . |
| 16 | Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting . |
| 17 | I had to go to the hospital every four hours for my eye drops and asthma inhaler , and even though I did n't need them that often , I was still expected to go . |
| 18 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 19 | The Labour Party was still expected to take the leading part , an agitation being started for an emergency Labour Conference to discuss the Alliance . |
| 20 | The four are still expected to take part in the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championship . |
| 21 | Many skilled people are nevertheless still expected to flee , Kevin Hamlin reports |
| 22 | Courses were still expected to provide ‘ as balanced an educational experience as possible ’ , and to aim at developing in students a number of abilities : |
| 23 | The issue is still expected to raise £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) . |
| 24 | On Feb. 24 Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the national conference , indicated that Nguza had abandoned the round table idea but was still expected to demand a reduction in the number of delegates to the conference . |
| 25 | Extra revenue was to come from higher telephone and unemployment insurance charges , but the cost of unification was still expected to increase the public-sector deficit above the DM140,000 million ( approximately US$94 , 580 million ) projected in December 1990 [ see p. 37904 ; for end-January rise in Federal Bank discount rate see p. 37978 ] . |
| 26 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 27 | It can be a different matter where staff are overworked and underpaid and still expected to smile constantly . |
| 28 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 29 | But that was when women still expected to have to fight for their rights . |
| 30 | Boris Becker has withdrawn from the Australian hard-court tournament in Adelaide , the first event on the new ATP tour , but is still expected to play in the New South Wales Open starting in Sydney on January 8 . |