Example sentences of "[is] still [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |
| 2 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 3 | That is still to some extent , erm though less true , I daresay , than it once was , but the mystique , I think , survives , does it not , Anne will tell us , in Whitehall , that these people bring erm who , who are essentially amateurs in matters of political science , sociology , international relations and diplomacy , bring a gentleman amateur 's omnicompetent wisdom . |
| 4 | Even so , worklife mobility is still of some importance ; the Oxford researchers ( Goldthorpe , 1980 ) found that many of the downwardly mobile men recovered their position of origin through this means . |
| 5 | Gaynor Summers is gamely attempting to knit again ; she 's still in some pain . |