Example sentences of "[be] still [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , er , and we 're still achieving the same job at a lot higher standard . |
| 2 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 3 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 4 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 5 | No , they 're still fighting the good fight . |
| 6 | The analysts have now downgraded their inflation forecasts for the rest of this year , but many are still expecting the underlying rate to creep back up to the top of the Chancellor 's target range of 4 per cent and above this summer . |
| 7 | Thus we are still using the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection , but the entities to which we are applying it are populations , or species , and not individuals as in most applications of the idea . |
| 8 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |
| 9 | After the initial whisky or gin and tonic move on to plain ginger ale or tonic water with ice and lemon which will give the impression , if necessary , that you are still drinking the real thing . |
| 10 | He and the mother are still telling the same story . |
| 11 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 12 | Recipes for disaster will probably take the following form : the ticket will say 7.15 pm for 7.45 pm , and at 8.30 pm ‘ the lads ’ are still attacking the free bar . |
| 13 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 'm still using the standard setup : five strings on the treble , five strings on the bass and a range of five and a quarter octaves . |
| 15 | The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future . |
| 16 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 17 | Your Sunday paper very likely came in sections , some of which you were still reading the following week . |
| 18 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 19 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 20 | As refuge staff were still celebrating the royal windfall , the princess was on her way from Balmoral to the Trinity House hospice in Blackpool . |
| 21 | The two humans were still coming the other way . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the government is still taking the cheap option , not the best . |
| 23 | But some things are still the same ; the old yard near the farmhouse is still thereand the old barn covered with its First World War tin roof . |
| 24 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 25 | The Office of Fair Trading is still examining the American Raytheon 's £250m bid for Corporate Jets to see whether it complies with EC competition rules . |
| 26 | The Office of Fair Trading is still examining the American Raytheon 's £250m bid for Corporate Jets to see whether it complies with EC competition rules . |
| 27 | Thirty years later , Healey says in his book , he is still making the same speech . |
| 28 | With advances in electronic control and programming , and also possibly in operator programming skill , it is likely that in future it will be feasible for many operators to program the next job on the machine while it is still cutting the present piece . |
| 29 | She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she 'd worn in the prison hospital , but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well . |
| 30 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |