Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Papa is still living up at Wood Lane . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sue is still building up her range and is willing to stock new qualities when in sufficient demand , so she likes to know what her customers want . |
| 7 | I mutter , and my mouth is still glued up . |
| 8 | During this period , wild and woolly concepts of ‘ national grids ’ of leys were published and thick black pencil lines defaced countless maps — naive enthusiasm that is still held up for ridicule by ley sceptics . |
| 9 | But the remaining tenth , on the eastern side of the city , running from Humberstone to the A6 at Oadby is still held up . |
| 10 | Note that , although the current approach to monetary policy focuses on the rate of interest in order to affect the demand for money , this approach is still backed up by measures to control the money supply . |
| 11 | While Keegan is still making up his mind on players some of them are already in the shop window . |
| 12 | Get in now while the price is still going up . |
| 13 | The speed is still going up , the acceleration , and eventually it reaches a top speed and it stays there . |
| 14 | Not all the news is good … thefts from vehicles in Gloucestershire is still going up by four percent . |
| 15 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 16 | But as far as the security services are concerned , the Kremlin is still plotting to undermine world capitalism and J. Edgar Hoover is still holed up in the FBI powder room . |
| 17 | Motorola , Mace says , is still cleaning up the part and does n't want to announce pricing or general availability until later in the year . |
| 18 | But he 's still fed up with people who knock the station . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going back to see if Caspar 's still locked up . ’ |
| 20 | He 's still bucking up and down and he 's shaking his head too now and you 're not sure he understands , but it does n't matter all that much . |
| 21 | you 're still using those , but your conductivity 's still going up . |
| 22 | it 's still going up again . |