Example sentences of "is still [det] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is still that sense of humour on both front lines . |
| 2 | As Gordon Pettitt admits , there is still much scope for improvement . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly , there is still much room for improvement and , therefore , the protocols detailed below should be seen more as prototypes rather than definitive conditions . |
| 4 | So , despite much that is progressive and encouraging in psychiatric hospital provision , there is still much room for improvement . |
| 5 | Although the deadline was the end of last year , many companies still have n't done so , so there is still much potential for growth , especially as these countries have far less foreign debt than any of their Eastern European neighbours . |
| 6 | Whilst this might be true , for some years now invertebrate neurophysiologists ( by which is meant those who study invertebrates , not a special group of researchers without backbones ! ) , who used to speak of their pet organisms as having simple nervous systems , have rephrased their claim , and refer instead to them as having ‘ simple ’ nervous systems , the inverted commas being deliberately added as a recognition that the complexity of these systems is still many orders of magnitude higher than in the genuinely simple wiring that one might expect of a mere computer . |
| 7 | ‘ But all around there is still this lack of organisation in the football business generally . |
| 8 | This grows less but there is still some sense of unease ; besides , many old women miss the company of men for social occasions . |
| 9 | There is still some water in storage but it can not be pumped out without this effect on the environment . |
| 10 | well — there is still some kind of hope ( NOT ! i guess ) — but i still ca n't see why he was not even given at least a whole second-half this season . |
| 11 | Although , at this stage , there is still some mismatch between policy and practice since the research findings revealed that some children do not yet have access to an effective modern language curriculum . |
| 12 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |