Example sentences of "are still [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many welfare lobbyists and pressure groups are still struggling with the legacy of the Thatcher years , especially the Fowler reviews and the 1986 Social Security Act changes . |
| 2 | Oxford are still struggling near the bottom of Division one . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a good figure but objectively you have to say the trend remains flat and that we are still bumping along the bottom , ’ said John Shepperd , economist with merchant bank SG Warburg . |
| 4 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |
| 5 | The politicians , it seems , are still haggling over the emblem on the cover . |
| 6 | If you are still living in the property on expiry of the Notice to Quit , he or she will need to obtain a Possession Order from your local county court . |
| 7 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 8 | ‘ We are still searching for the money , but most of it was blown away . |
| 9 | Detectives are still searching for the murder weapon , probably a wooden handled knife . |
| 10 | ( 1982 ) found that a quarter of normal 3-year-olds are still wetting in the day at least once a week but that this rapidly reduces to 8 per cent at 4 years and 2 per cent at 8 years . |
| 11 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 12 | ‘ And we are still looking for the child who should have been in the premises , but was n't . |
| 13 | A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way . |
| 14 | Peace-loving Somalis , anxious to start rebuilding their shattered country , are still hiding in the shadows . |
| 15 | The moon has set ( the warriors with Dulé are still gliding towards the Rebecca ; the sloop is growing broader , taller , blacker as they approach her ) , but the stars are burning in the dark blue distance , one of them sparkling emerald and ruby and sapphire as if shaking drops of water from itself after a bathe in the liquid of the sky . |
| 16 | Let us talk about reductions in corporation tax , which are still feeding through the economy and will be worth £1 billion to industry in the next year . |
| 17 | Those flares you fired for the war you ended are still burning for the peace that you won . |
| 18 | Meanwhile enquiries are still continuing into the Mr Letts death . |
| 19 | Negotiations are still continuing on the R & D Framework programmes , such as ESPRIT and Telematics , which have been delayed . |
| 20 | Thousands of works of art once held in Russian and German museums are still missing after the war , including the famed Amber Chamber from the Imperial Summer Palace at Tsarskoe Selo , dismantled by the Germans when they occupied the outskirts of Leningrad . |
| 21 | In the window of the Freethinkers store the anti-God pamphlets are still curling at the edges . |
| 22 | Speaking for Jordan , Abu Jaber emphasized " our traditional Jordanian moderation " and warned against the " extremists and the rejectionists who speak in absolute terms and are still lurking in the wings " . |
| 23 | During this time , a failed adventurer has WS and BS -20 — this may be a problem if Gargoyles from area 13 are still attacking at the time ! |
| 24 | Pakistani regular army units took part in the summer fighting around Jalalabad , he said , but had moved back , although Pakistani artillery experts , commandos and officers are still fighting with the mujahedin . |
| 25 | Shopfloor workers at the company 's factory in Llandudno Junction are still reeling from the news that the factory is to close within two years , with the loss of 100 workers . |
| 26 | You are still fleeing from the past , though , behaving like a trained poodle , moving on rapidly as your mother taught you . |
| 27 | The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV . |
| 28 | Other towns in Oxfordshire are still grappling with the problem . |
| 29 | But that stretch of beach itself still tends to lose material further to the east , because the winds are still coming from the southwest predominantly , still driving the , the beach material along . |
| 30 | Even so , it remains true that the performance of the individual is a function of the way he developed skills in his earlier more formative years and the way in which his capacities and skills are still changing in the work environment . |