Example sentences of "is still [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — The spirit of cheating reigns supreme amongst us ; — Honesty is still wanting amongst the indigenous businessmen ; — Most of our businessmen are not honest . |
| 2 | God is still wanting to continue filling his people , with his spirit . |
| 3 | I can hear a muffled distant television , Jancey is still chatting next door , and someone outside is calling goodnight . |
| 4 | Hunting has some steady on-going business — such as highly classified nuclear work — and is still hoping to see new orders generated by the lessons learned in the Gulf war . |
| 5 | ONE of the candidates in last week 's Irish elections is still hoping to become a member of both the Irish and British parliaments . |
| 6 | Whereas if the consumer is still hoping to get credit from that source , he would anyway re-apply after having the information put right , so the correction would almost certainly reach the credit granter in the helpful context of an active proposal — under our existing law . |
| 7 | Looking ahead , the government is still hoping for continuing growth of 4% a year . |
| 8 | Apparently it is still hoping to do something with some of the software it has developed internally . |
| 9 | Paul Marland is still hoping to defuse the crisis . |
| 10 | She felt so strongly about the situation she removed Christopher , now 13 , from mainstream education and says she is still hoping to have his LEA provision reviewed . |
| 11 | Syria is still supplying guns to the Muslims , just as Iraq is supplying guns to the Christians . |
| 12 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 13 | MUD being transported away by lorries as part of a dredging scheme on the River Lagan is still spilling into the streets of the Lower Ormeau , the local residents ' group has claimed . |
| 14 | While commercial-property markets in America , Britain and Japan are in the doldrums , Germany 's is still booming . |
| 15 | Business is still booming today with chippies in Blackpool , Glasgow and Heathrow airport . |
| 16 | The field is a specialised one and the study of it is still producing refinements of previous discoveries . |
| 17 | If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk . |
| 18 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 19 | John is still ranting . |
| 20 | Or , if anger is still spoiling your relationship with someone , then consider expressing your feelings directly to them , even if the incident occurred some years ago . |
| 21 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 22 | In Spain , Housman Overseas is no longer active in the Costa del Sol , although it is still dealing with the Costa Blanca . |
| 23 | Also , company 1 , by focusing on decreasing margins through time , rather than the fact that it is still earning better margins than a rival , may be ‘ bearish ’ and let company 2 get established in the market too easily . |
| 24 | But nothing came of it and he is still kicking his heels at Bramall Lane after drawing a blank in his summer quest to find a new club . |
| 25 | In only his third season , Okoye is still learning . |
| 26 | There has been plenty of advice on what to stock and , as he is still learning about what Sutton Coldfield customers may want , he has been happy to listen . |
| 27 | Amber is for ‘ caution ’ behaviour , which you do n't encourage but tolerate because your child is still learning and making mistakes : something like digging holes in the lawn with his spade or hurling her toys across the room in a moment of fury . |
| 28 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 29 | ‘ Teams know about him now and he is still learning , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 30 | After many years spent out of step , Sarah Lewis is still learning … |