Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the gene is still expressed at a low level further emphasizing that the region between -190bp and -55bp is important for basal expression . |
| 2 | The winner carried the famous ‘ Teaplanter ’ colours of owner Richard Russell who missed the ride as he is still recovering from a bad early season fall . |
| 3 | Mick Lyons has departed the scene , All Ireland captain Liam Hayes is still recovering from a broken arm , although one of the sport 's enduring personalities Colm O'Rourke has rejoined the squad after a 10 month absence . |
| 4 | And Taylor showed his brain is still functioning with a resilient game plan that countered Brazil 's touch-passing and darting spin-offs . |
| 5 | THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week ( 26 April 1986 ) is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus . |
| 6 | The company is expected to show encouraging profits in 1992 ( publishing should yield $ 330m , compared to $ 264m in 1991 ) , but is still burdened with a staggering $ 9bn debt as a legacy of the merger . |
| 7 | Business in Japan is still conducted in a traditional Confucian manner where civility , politeness and the search for constructive relationships are of the essence , and successful business follows the establishment of such relationships . |
| 8 | It is still regarded as a preconceived construct which incorporates goals for learning , and its relationship with a methodology which activates the immediate process of learning remains as undefined as before . |
| 9 | The disparity of provision partly reflects the lack of understanding by teachers of the purpose of a school library , and ways in which it should be used in the curriculum , so that it is still regarded as a peripheral concern , a room open for pupils in the lunch hour and for English lessons for children to borrow books . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that the state system of education is over 100 years old , it is still regarded as a fundamental duty of parenthood to educate one 's child . |
| 11 | In such definitions , ‘ race ’ is still conceived as a false representation of reality rather than as part of the process of constructing an operative symbolic and social reality : literally , a common sense . |
| 12 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 13 | His Queensland team-mate , Michael Doohan , the winner in Japan , set the qualifying pace ahead of defending champion Wayne Rainey , on a Yahama , and Kevin Schwantz , the Suzuki team leader , who is still looking for a first major title breakthrough . |
| 14 | The liquidator , Chris Ashurst of Brighton-based Neville Russell , says that he is still looking for a missing £1m of stock and is keen to hear from anyone who bought OCT machines from anywhere other than the London direct-sales team , or the liquidators ' auction held in Bristol . |
| 15 | As the organisation grows there will be a partial delegation of these functions to branches , but because the business is still run as a single unit ( even though it may produce a wide variety of products at many separate locations ) responsibility for operational matters , as well as long-term strategy , remains with top management . |
| 16 | He also suggests why , nonetheless , it is still perceived as a serious betrayal of the marriage . |
| 17 | Delicacy is essential , for the Javanese are still touchy and Sukarno , though under a cloud , is still perceived as a great national hero . |
| 18 | France has pursued such policies for many years and this rationalisation and reallocation of land — remembrement — is still seen as a major long-term aim . |
| 19 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 20 | CHELSEA manager Ian Porterfield is still searching for a top class goalkeeper despite the heroics of stand-in Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 21 | Toshiba Corp is still working on a fault-tolerant Sparc box using Sequoia Systems Inc software but ended talks on buying Sequoia 's Motorola Inc kit OEM in the meantime . |
| 22 | The person who is feeling stable , confident and optimistic is far less likely to mind being alone than someone who is still reeling from a major bereavement or break-up . |
| 23 | HARSH new cigarette packaging regulations have stunned Australia 's tobacco industry , which is still reeling from a total ban on tobacco sponsorship of sport and on all forms of advertising except at the point of sale from July next year . |
| 24 | Even though today 's colours , perms and styling products are kinder than ever before , hair is still subjected to a daily assault course and more often than not , needs a little more loving care than it actually gets . |
| 25 | Part of the building is still used as a working mill . |
| 26 | Dr Swire is still campaigning for a public inquiry into Lockerbie . |
| 27 | Marriage breakdown and divorce is still portrayed as a private matter , the result of personal inadequacy or moral failure , yet the Finer Report(1974) emphasized that children were often helpless victims of marital strife and envisaged conciliation services being developed in the context of a major reform of family law and creation of family courts . |
| 28 | Stepping has always been a feature of this particular village and it is still practised to a certain extent today . |
| 29 | In fact , the separatist movement which developed in Sicily after 1943 proved short-lived , though its disappearance is still mourned by a few as ‘ the end of the Sicilian nation ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ That was a game we should have won after taking a two goal lead , and I think it 's still rankles with a few of the lads . |