Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first function of the Commons is still to sustain an effective government . |
| 2 | And this BSA built in 1927 is still enjoying an active life … |
| 3 | In Tibet Ngawang Buchung , a monk from the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa , is still serving a 19-year sentence imposed at a mass sentencing rally in November 1989 . |
| 4 | Another of the seven students , 20-year-old Wahyudi , a prisoner featured in the April/May 1989 issue , is still serving a seven-year sentence in Cilacap , Central Java . |
| 5 | The MBO team , heavily supported by CAMRA , is still negotiating a similar deal . |
| 6 | Forster shows women in apparently similar circumstances — their objective is still to marry a suitable gentleman . |
| 7 | And , at the age of 82 ( ‘ I do n't feel it ’ ) , this grand old Press warrior is still putting a candid pen to paper . |
| 8 | We have been here almost a year now and the Revd Brunton Scott is still having a great affect on our lives . |
| 9 | He probably thinks everyone is still having a good time out there somewhere in the fog . |
| 10 | LATEST figures show Cheshire 's police force is still fighting a losing battle against a rising tide of crime . |
| 11 | Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve . |
| 12 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 13 | Therapy is still considered a marginal thing but I really do n't see why . |
| 14 | The council is still spending a fair amount of its budget on tourism . |
| 15 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 16 | I mean , so there 's he 's still making a reasonable mark- up on that . |