Example sentences of "[be] still [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 2 | So you 've got relatives that are there are , there are distant relative , they 're still related to you , you would n't call them one of your family because th the relationship is so distant . |
| 3 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 5 | They 're still coming to terms with it . |
| 6 | It 's crystal-clear that whatever defects your former wife possesses you 're still attracted to her . |
| 7 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 8 | We 're still talking to each other . |
| 9 | So we , we , we 're still working to middle peasants being able to earn twenty five or thirty percent of their income from exploitation , either hired labour or renting out land and we wo n't touch it at all . |
| 10 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 11 | And even if you 're not contemplating any of those things , as I 've said you 're still going to be faced with decisions about goods that you want to buy and services that you want to buy for your home . |
| 12 | the Tories are gon na introduce their alternative , but they 're still going to through this banding system , the whole objective of that is to , is to make sure that the better off people do n't pay their full whack |
| 13 | What , you 're still going to are you ? |
| 14 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 15 | Even under normal circumstances , however , people throughout the world are still exposed to a variety of environmental hazards which jeopardise their safety , health , happiness and , indeed , survival . |
| 16 | Today local people are still exposed to increasingly lethal quantities of pollution . |
| 17 | According to the government White Paper in 1971 , there were only around one hundred mentally handicapped children with foster parents or in private lodgings , and the numbers of fostered and adopted children with mental handicap are still believed to be very small . |
| 18 | These two are still believed to be targeted at the sub-$10,000 and sub-$20,000 price points respectively . |
| 19 | These two are still believed to be targeted at the sub $10,000 and sub $20,000 price points respectively . |
| 20 | UNIVERSITY students are still sticking to a boozing , sexy lifestyle despite the recession . |
| 21 | The tesserae are still applied to a bed of mortar , but the client could expect the work in the room which was actually receiving the mosaic to be finished much more quickly than with the direct method . |
| 22 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |
| 23 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 24 | Two or three European car makers — possibly including Peugeot of France - are still understood to be discussing alternative rescue packages with Jaguar . |
| 25 | The plaster casts demonstrate this with unpleasant clarity ; in many of them the hands are still pressed to the mouth , preserving the last hopeless efforts to breathe . |
| 26 | This last can be prevented by modern orthopaedic treatment , but , unfortunately , many patients are still referred to a suitable orthopaedic clinic too late . |
| 27 | Accepting bills was once the principal function of those merchant banks who are still referred to as acceptance houses ( see section 3.3 ) ; it is now carried out by a large number of banks . |
| 28 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 29 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |
| 30 | ‘ Richard Arnold , the Blackbury-based chairman of the Arnco Group , said in Florida today ’ , ’ she said , ‘ ‘ that scientists are still trying to r … r … regain control of Arnsat 1 , the multi-million pound com … communications sat … ellite — ’ ’ |