Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , current single ‘ Dig For Fire ’ is n't played but a VFM set is still rammed through . |
| 2 | Needless to say , current single ‘ Dig For Fire ’ is n't played but a VFM set is still rammed through . |
| 3 | In addition the backwash from the last wave is still moving down the beach when the next wave arrives due to the high frequency of the waves . |
| 4 | A few moments later , she came ashore and wandered over : ‘ Dad , these leggings do n't seem to work , water is still getting in , ’ she complained . |
| 5 | But it is still haggling over details . |
| 6 | It is still lived in by the direct descendant of Sir John Damer , who was perhaps so appalled by the building programme of his brother , Viscount Milton , first Earl of Dorchester , at Milton Abbas , that he vowed to build a small house for himself . |
| 7 | It is still lived in , though not any more by humans , because the castle and its grounds have been turned into a home , and a sort of theatre , for birds of prey : vultures , falcons , buzzards , eagles , which in the afternoons ( I 'm not sure why it has to be only after lunch ) are allowed to fly free and which you can pay to visit . |
| 8 | It 's been restored and is still lived in . |
| 9 | Ron Anthony , the NII 's chief inspector made it clear last week that delays over settling the safety case were largely the fault of the CEGB , it was 10 months late with its PCSR and is still filling in gaps in key areas , like the integrity of steam generator tubes and the issue of fuel-clad ballooning . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Papa is still living up at Wood Lane . |
| 11 | They would show that the private client is still loved in today 's institutional world . |
| 12 | ( He raises a hand at ROS while GUIL bows to him — ROS is still straightening up from his previous now and half way up he bows down again . |
| 13 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 14 | BUT the audience is still hanging around , waiting for an encore . |
| 15 | BUT the audience is still hanging around , waiting for an encore . |
| 16 | Inhabitants of the worst-hit tower blocks fled with such haste that their washing is still hanging out . |
| 17 | The wrangle over airline stakes has already forced British Airways to rethink its plans , and the much wider argument over farm policies is still holding up the long-delayed Uruguay round of GATT talks on the further liberalisation of international trade . |
| 18 | In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period . |
| 19 | You may not be actually using the previous stitch pattern this time around , but it is still taking up memory , whether you use it or not . |
| 20 | The hair , though white now , is still swept back , and , as he nears 83 , the bottom lip protrudes as crossly and the eyes bulge as they have always done . |
| 21 | The complete pond extension ( render on outside is still drying out ) . |
| 22 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 23 | Palace choose from 15 today , with John Salako expected to shrug off a minor knee problem but Thomas is still ruled out with knee ligament damage . |
| 24 | Nigel Jemson is still ruled out along with centre half Peter Shirtliff ( hamstring ) , but full back Roland Nilsson looks set to return at full back in place of John Harkes . |
| 25 | While some of last year 's stockpile has vanished , a lot of oil is still sloshing around in storage . |
| 26 | Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate . |
| 27 | We 'll just say the water is still to go in . |
| 28 | The kaleidoscope is still whirling on . |
| 29 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 30 | Her last with Penguin , as she has moved to HarperCollins , but the publicity is still tied in with her new hardback ( Fallen Skies ) . |