Example sentences of "[conj] still [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Omni SQL Gateway that er you 'll be be able to access D B two data is that still going through the Open SQL Server or is that actually going D R D A or are there plans to go D R D A compliant ? |
| 2 | When you are young and still living within the family it is often hard to acknowledge that you are sexually active and need to take some precautions . |
| 3 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 4 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 5 | Gaitskell ( now dominating Labour 's economic policy and still smarting from the defeat over Clow ) cut the allocations to electricity more than to the other fuel industries ( which the planners felt could meet energy demand at less capital cost ) . |
| 6 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 7 | Slowly but surely Carter are on the move again , still pertinent and still clinging to the plot . |
| 8 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 9 | Her hand rose to her lips , soft and still tingling from the hard pressure of his possessive mouth . |
| 10 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 11 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |
| 12 | Bake at 325°F ( 160°C ) gas mark 3 until the custard is just set but still trembling in the centre and the tops of the bread projecting from it are deliciously toasty and crusted . |
| 13 | George Beto , now in semi-retirement but still teaching at the Center , is one of the main actors in the story . |
| 14 | Far better to change eating habits so that a sensible pattern is established , easing up when a satisfactory weight is reached , but still keeping to the same ‘ right ’ kind of foods . |
| 15 | Joyce became a part-time tutor at a creamer 's , while still participating in the social life of his peers . |
| 16 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 17 | As the title of this paper shows , I am sure that we can not hope to do this rethinking while still clinging to the currently orthodox view that there are no natural , genetically determined sex differences . |
| 18 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 19 | His kisses had gentled out when suddenly , while still staying on the mattress with her , he moved away from her . |
| 20 | While still working on the second volume of the Society 's guidebook , at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 16 June 1830 , he applied to undertake a series of drawings of the parrot collection . |
| 21 | As implied by his reference to wearing Messel 's costumes , John had begun by May , while still working at the Sadler 's Wells School , to appear in the corps de ballet at Covent Garden , although only in The Sleeping Beauty which needed a large cast . |
| 22 | However , while still working in the darkroom , he gained second spot in the 1979 Northern Sports Photographer of the Year competition . |
| 23 | By developing these devices in the light of modern technology , Brooke-Rose is able to circumvent the conventions of realism while still remaining within the bounds of what is accepted as novelistic . |
| 24 | The Parliamentary Labour Party , despite its greatly reduced numbers , was not prepared to return to the previous Standing Orders which had allowed the ILP to put forward a distinct policy in Parliament while still remaining within the Labour Group . |
| 25 | A method or approach to working together has been devised with the explicit intention of creating a relationship and setting in motion a process which supports the moves towards normalisation whilst still tallying with the emergence of self-advocacy . |
| 26 | This was substantially enacted by the Misrepresentation Act 1967 ( see also pp. 124–5 ) , and now the court may treat a contract as still subsisting despite the existence of innocent misrepresentation , and award damages to the injured party , instead of rescinding the contract . |