Example sentences of "of [noun] still [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet , very few people were about , the majority of holiday-makers still at breakfast . |
| 2 | ‘ Can we abandon half the globe to the caprice of peoples still in their infancy … ? |
| 3 | Was that closest of relationships still to be denied ? |
| 4 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 5 | Blanche retreated to her cubicle in the corner of the room , a knot of thoughtfulness still on her forehead , her movement followed by all the constables in the office who looked up from their conversations . |
| 6 | Waving Bosnian flags and portraits of the late Yugoslav communist leader , Marshal Tito , a large crowd of miners still in work clothes chanted : ‘ Down with the murderers ! |
| 7 | I see little value in the interview schedule going into the field to a small sub-sample of respondents if the designer knows in advance that there is a lot of work still to be done . |
| 8 | This summary list indicates the amount of work still to be done . |
| 9 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 10 | And indeed it was something very different — the bones of a human skeleton , a few pieces of clothing still on it . |
| 11 | Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face . |
| 12 | There are instances of ninety-year-olds still at work in seventeenth-century England . |
| 13 | He asserted that with the concept of reform still in a state of flux it " must be enriched with new ideas and conclusions " . |
| 14 | The interchange has deteriorated badly in the 19 years since completion and repair work is involving jacking up the deck of sections of sliproad still in use in order to extract the decaying crosshead beams for replacement . |
| 15 | The movement of the city centre to the grands boulevards and the Bourse left the absolute majority of workers still in their quartier , and most of the quartiers still remained . |
| 16 | We have had problems with nitrates and so we removed some of the fish ( 36″ in all ) , leaving a total of 131″ of fish still in the tank . |
| 17 | ‘ There are a lot of questions still to be answered . |
| 18 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 19 | The Probation Act 1907 established the form of probation still with us , as long urged by the Howard Association for Penal Reform . |
| 20 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 21 | Indeed , that part of the over-representation of teenagers amongst the temporary labour force which is not explained by the temporary working of persons still at school is explained by the high proportion of the age group in special youth training schemes . |
| 22 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 23 | with the problem of hunger still in evidence in LDCs , some Third World governments have turned to other strategies to make the best use of resources and organise distribution , the onus being on distribution as much as production . |
| 24 | Gilbert , with the edge of terror still in his voice , was talking to keep himself sane ; and the others were listening to try and make sense of the nightmare in which they found themselves . |
| 25 | A relapse was defined as a clinical deterioration with an increase in DAI requiring ( i ) high dose steroids , or a return to high dose steroids in the case of patients still on tapering prednisolone doses , or ( ii ) surgery . |
| 26 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |
| 27 | For example , if one examines the number of people still at home at one year by whether or not they possessed what appear to be the three key traits of living alone ; not having an informal carer who can cope with all necessary care ; and having a high OBS score ( eight out of ten or more ) , then |
| 28 | Because the control sample of people still at home at second assessment was so small , no conclusions are possible . |
| 29 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 30 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |