Example sentences of "is still [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 2 | Your doctor or midwife may also check your breasts and abdomen , though the womb is still hidden in the pelvis in the early weeks and may not be felt . |
| 3 | Some 80% of total group turnover is still generated in the UK , however . |
| 4 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 5 | I believe too that his murderer is still hiding in the study . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher is still seen in the United States as the staunchest of its allies . |
| 7 | This sparked off talk of a tunnel leading to Burghley House where a mythical monastery founded in 1158 by William Waterville was supposed to have stood ( this monastery is still cited in the Burghley House guide book ) . |
| 8 | The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road , at the beginning of the twentieth century , for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick , the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall , but also another Hall named after Hogarth , whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule . |
| 9 | At the request of the inhabitants , he also opened up a well from which they draw water to this day , and his name is still commemorated in the village . |
| 10 | Still a star attraction , ten years on The village which provided the setting for the film Local Hero is still pulling in the tourists . |
| 11 | This approach to treatment , strong in the nineteenth century and all but eclipsed in the twentieth , is still waiting in the wings . |
| 12 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 13 | Unsurprisingly , one brother is still immersed in the outdoors and the other is a high-powered executive with a salary to match . |
| 14 | Liverpool chief trading standards officer Peter Mawdsley said : ‘ A fundamental change is still needed in the allocation system to give the finalists substantially more tickets . ’ |
| 15 | The levy in mass against the Gauls is still mentioned in the charter granted to the " colonia Genetiva Julia " in Spain in 44 B.C. , when it was presumably a simple piece of antiquarianism , if it did not allude to Caesar 's recent wars . |
| 16 | After all , Colin is still standing in the middle with a guitar . |
| 17 | Bishop Trelawney 's home , Trelawne , is still standing in the parish , as is the ancient manor of Tregarrick , one time home of the Winslades and now a farm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As the resistance R c is still included in the circuit the winding current can be monitored and when the control voltage has fallen to the transistor T2 is switched on again . |
| 20 | Marketing director Jim Bradford says JWT is still included in the review , but confirms the other agencies involved have now been dropped . |
| 21 | The ‘ ownership ’ of records , whether in machine-readable form or not , is still vested in the departments that generated them . |
| 22 | The prime minister is still basking in the success of last month 's conference on the ozone layer . |
| 23 | It is developed from an eastern world view , and each of the postures adopted is still used in the East to invoke various deities . |
| 24 | However , host member state authorisation is still required in the insurance sector pending adoption of the proposed Third Life and Third Non-Life Directive . |
| 25 | This gap is still letting in the wind ; he can not see distinct segments of time past . |
| 26 | We are told that the main reason given was the weakening of squadrons by withdrawing the best crews , Nevertheless after much procrastination , all of which is still clouded in the veil of " security " , the Pathfinder Force was formed on 15 August 1942 and its first Commandant was Gp Capt D.C.T. Bennett DSO ( later AVM , CB , CBE , DSO ) who was officially appointed on 5 July — the master airman extraordinary and navigator par excellence . |