Example sentences of "is still [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even if we allow the inductivists to separate the mode of discovery and the mode of justification , their position is still threatened by the fact that observation statements are theory-laden and hence fallible . |
| 2 | The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks . |
| 3 | Some core is still curated by the BGS . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His whole speech is still dictated by the formality with which he began . |
| 7 | Pork is still eaten throughout the world and in the Far East it is a very important ingredient in many stir-fried dishes as it is tender and cooks quickly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This raises questions of how far work on women is still relegated to the sidelines of sociological inquiry and teaching . |
| 10 | To prevent collusion between employer and employee , the local authority is not obliged to do this when the tied cottager is still employed by the farmer ( who could otherwise obtain a council house for the tenant by threatening to terminate his employment ) . |
| 11 | Though the title ‘ Feast Sing ’ is still printed on the programme , the feast has disappeared and the sing has become attached to the Holmfirth Musical Festival . |
| 12 | The highest authority of the Fund is still exercised by the board of governors , but the constitution of the interim committee is such that decisions taken there are usually ratified by the full board when it meets annually in the autumn . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some 80% of total group turnover is still generated in the UK , however . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In our society , a woman 's identity is still organized around the home , domestic work and child-rearing . |
| 17 | The state of the art in the study of professionals in schools is still represented by the work of Hoyle ( 1975 ) who suggested the notion of professionality as a way forward from the sterile debates of whether teaching is a profession in the ‘ checklist of characteristics ’ manner . |
| 18 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 19 | Yet retirement is still viewed as the beginning of the end , rather than , for many , the threshold to the last third of life . |
| 20 | After 30 years of research , Clarins is still fascinated by the beauty secrets of plants . |
| 21 | Gary as he 's called is still trained by the Pitmans on the Lambourn Downs … |
| 22 | The Blackpool Brook is still channelled beneath the cottages , now passing unhindered through a tunnel . |
| 23 | Since the magnetic material is still endowed with the property of concentrating the field lines in itself , the flux stays constant for the whole length of the core , yielding |
| 24 | Yet a surprisingly large proportion of market research is still based on the spending patterns of the baby boomers ' parents , and so implicitly assumes that they are all but identical . |
| 25 | Here the landscape is still littered with the remains of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mining industry . |
| 26 | Soccer superstar Best is still recognised throughout the world . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher is still seen in the United States as the staunchest of its allies . |
| 29 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 30 | The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions . |