Example sentences of "[pron] still [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | DoubleClickSpeed=452 : Longest time allowed between two mouse clicks for them still to be counted as a double click . |
| 2 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 3 | One still to be chosen |
| 4 | Soon the forest closed around her , so dense and dark in places that even as the new day broke she imagined herself still to be in a midnight realm . |
| 5 | She 'd believed herself still to be battle-scarred by her broken engagement and now was immune to such flirtation , but this man planed flirtation to a smooth , silky art she found it difficult to resist . |
| 6 | At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's . |
| 7 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 8 | ‘ You realize there 's the best part of four million pounds in those contracts — most of it still to be paid to us . ’ |
| 9 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |