Example sentences of "still [being] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welsh Office approval is still being sought for the conversion of a disused coal power station , owned by PowerGen at Connah 's Quay , Clwyd , to the gas-fired technology which would burn much of the fuel from the field . |
| 2 | Welsh Office approval is still being sought for the conversion of a disused coal power station , owned by PowerGen , at Connah 's Quay , Clwyd , to the gas-fired technology which would burn much of the mined fuel . |
| 3 | A man is still being questioned about the death of Ian Barnes.Chris Moore reports . |
| 4 | They 're still being questioned at the moment |
| 5 | Despite such trends , new consortium banks are still being created around the world ( about one hundred such banks exist ) . |
| 6 | Curiously , seals with these signs were still being made at the end of the Middle Minoan , around 1600 BC , and were entombed in buildings destroyed in 1470 BC , well after the appearance and general adoption of both Linear A and Linear B scripts . |
| 7 | Last night she was still being treated at the Countess of Chester hospital and under sedation . |
| 8 | ‘ In case you miss your way , ’ he said , but Fenella had heard the key turn in the lock earlier and knew she was still being treated as a prisoner . |
| 9 | Although the White House had convinced itself that a Labour victory would be perfectly tolerable , the President is undoubtedly pleased that Britain is still being run by a man and a party he knows he can rely on . |
| 10 | It dates from the last years of Egyptian independence and was still being built during the lifetime of Christ . |
| 11 | People are still being referred to the centre by social services because there is nowhere else for them to go . |
| 12 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 13 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 14 | In a rare display of solidarity , a joint letter was also sent to US President George Bush urging him to unblock US$100,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua , which the US Congress had suspended in late May as a protest at the perceived influence still being exercised by the opposition Sandinistas , particularly over the army and police [ see pp. 38957-58 ] . |
| 15 | Antoine Pecquet , a writer of the early eighteenth century who was also a senior official in the French foreign ministry , is typical of much of what was still being said on the subject . |
| 16 | He could provide no further details , however , because the deal is still being contested by a competitor , which , according to Jenkins , has better political connections than ICL . |
| 17 | Though a form of categorisation was still being executed in the form of a separate story for each moral , the new abstract subject involved use of invention and illustrated animals through their engagement with fable became anthropomorphically represented . |
| 18 | Kingfisher — or Woolworths as it was then called — was still being reshaped under the guidance of Mulcahy and his team , who had spearheaded a buy-out of the company from its US parent four years earlier . |
| 19 | I mean I 'm appalled at the way that teenagers are still being shown on the television as they were twenty years ago able to rule the roost because they did . |
| 20 | St Colmcille 's Church is still being repaired after an arson attack , and Mass was held in the adjoining parochial hall , which was packed to overflowing . |
| 21 | Yet , ironically , car production today is still being crammed into a pint pot . |
| 22 | The main fact which emerges is that the Temple is still being subsidized by the king of the land , as it was under Persian rule , according to a decree of Darius of 515 B.C. ( Ezra 6.9 ) . |
| 23 | Nearly 500 people arrested after the rebel attacks were still being held at the time of the AI visit . |
| 24 | He cited 2,700 FIS supporters dismissed from their jobs since June and said that FIS political prisoners were still being held in a number of towns . |
| 25 | Although the user thinks that they are deleting the material they are only really removing them from the current display list — all the text and graphics are still being held in the file . |
| 26 | Elections had been suspended for at least 30 days in at least 31 municipalities while the votes were reportedly still being counted in the rest . |
| 27 | In view of the fact that Modernists are still being blamed for the destruction of civilisation , this seems like a good question , but according to DOCOMOMO it is not . |
| 28 | As Neil Richardson noted in 1980 , ‘ An old town pub is not just an attractive Victorian or Georgian facade , it is a building which is still being used for the purpose for which it was built . |
| 29 | I was then put in er , charge , if that 's the correct word , of disposing of the premises and er , we sold a part to Harry who was an old friend of mine er for his garage purposes and er , later on , purchased a large building in the middle of of erm , er , this area , which was still being used as a leather currying works and so on . |
| 30 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |