Example sentences of "[is] still [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in France , try to find some of the Port Salut that is still made by the monks — it has a more distinctive flavour than the mass-produced cheese . |
| 2 | The five-year plan — despite liberalisation , India is still locked into the shackles of state planning — which runs until March 1997 calls for investment of $12,900m for telecommunications . |
| 3 | This raises questions of how far work on women is still relegated to the sidelines of sociological inquiry and teaching . |
| 4 | Some writers have argued that since the parties became so strong , it was inevitable that the influence formerly exercised on the floor of the House should decline but that much the same influence is still exercised by the meetings of the parliamentary parties . |
| 5 | The Blackpool Brook is still channelled beneath the cottages , now passing unhindered through a tunnel . |
| 6 | Here the landscape is still littered with the remains of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mining industry . |
| 7 | However , the state pension is still tied to the ages of 60 and 65 , though it looks like this will change after the next general election , as a result of pressure from the European Court rulings outlined above and , in particular , their impact on the private pension industry . |
| 8 | In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ . |
| 9 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 10 | He is still haunted by the mistakes that cost his country so dearly in the European ties last season . |
| 11 | Little is still known of the designers and speculators of this part of the town 's growth , save that they were often little more than smallholders or jobbing builders who saw the possibility of some quick profits on their small capital . |
| 12 | Despite much research , little is still known about the causes of autism , but with an incidence rate of four to five per 10,000 of the population , it ranks as a major form of mental handicap . |
| 13 | Matthew Boulton lived close to his works at Soho ; but his son bought the estate and country house of Great Tew in Oxfordshire and went to and fro by the coach which is still preserved in the stables there . |
| 14 | I accept that there are some anomalies on the 1984 map , but it is still focused on the areas of greatest need . |
| 15 | Labour MP Miss Hilary Armstrong and the Liberal Mr Matthew Taylor have already agreed to speak , but a reply is still awaited from the Conservatives , says Mrs Robinson , who wants to put Darlington 's political contenders in the hot seat with a similar local meeting . |
| 16 | The ‘ ownership ’ of records , whether in machine-readable form or not , is still vested in the departments that generated them . |