Example sentences of "is still [verb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
2 | The first , St Joseph 's in Marton Road , had space for 200 children but objected since it is still recovering from the effects of housing another primary school following a major fire . |
3 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
4 | The company is still smarting from the rebuff it received in the senate finance committee . |
5 | They are like scrolls unrolling , only softer , and with an aspect of newborn creatures whose flesh is still crumpled from the matrix of the womb . |
6 | China clay is still exported from the quay . |
7 | The Middle East is still suffering from the consequences of Jewish beastliness ( why could n't they have waited to be attacked first , like gents ? ) , including what someone euphemistically described as the ‘ re-unification ’ of Jerusalem . |
8 | Jenkins is still suffering from the effects of an ankle ligament injury . |
9 | Much of the music played by a pianist for ballet lessons is still borrowed from the dance suites of court , opera and other ballets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , as well as from other dance suites of Bach , Mozart , Beethoven and Brahms . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | MELROSE president Jim Russell has claimed that the best is still to come from the Greenyards men . |
12 | And the Royal Family is still reeling from the Mirror 's exclusive pictures of Fergie 's poolside antics with John Bryan . |
13 | Twenty-five-year old India Miller is still reeling from the shock of being named 1991 Scottish Hairdresser of the Year . |
14 | The Association is still reeling from the news of the unexpected death of its chief executive and secretary Andrew Sansom at the end of November . |
15 | Lucy , who had her first baby , Oliver , three months ago , is still reeling from the impact of the blazing row that exploded when she and her husband drew up their will . |
16 | The branch is still reeling from the losses suffered at last year 's polls . |
17 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |