Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | — The spirit of cheating reigns supreme amongst us ; — Honesty is still wanting amongst the indigenous businessmen ; — Most of our businessmen are not honest . |
| 2 | Even if we allow the inductivists to separate the mode of discovery and the mode of justification , their position is still threatened by the fact that observation statements are theory-laden and hence fallible . |
| 3 | MUD being transported away by lorries as part of a dredging scheme on the River Lagan is still spilling into the streets of the Lower Ormeau , the local residents ' group has claimed . |
| 4 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 5 | The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks . |
| 6 | Some core is still curated by the BGS . |
| 7 | Your doctor or midwife may also check your breasts and abdomen , though the womb is still hidden in the pelvis in the early weeks and may not be felt . |
| 8 | If you are in France , try to find some of the Port Salut that is still made by the monks — it has a more distinctive flavour than the mass-produced cheese . |
| 9 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 10 | In Spain , Housman Overseas is no longer active in the Costa del Sol , although it is still dealing with the Costa Blanca . |
| 11 | His whole speech is still dictated by the formality with which he began . |
| 12 | Pork is still eaten throughout the world and in the Far East it is a very important ingredient in many stir-fried dishes as it is tender and cooks quickly . |
| 13 | And the latest news on the travellers movements is that a convoy is still moving along the A-forty-six between Cheltenham and Stroud . |
| 14 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
| 15 | The five-year plan — despite liberalisation , India is still locked into the shackles of state planning — which runs until March 1997 calls for investment of $12,900m for telecommunications . |
| 16 | This raises questions of how far work on women is still relegated to the sidelines of sociological inquiry and teaching . |
| 17 | EOS is still tussling with the fact that shrinking the board 's size reduces the number of memory banks it fits from eight to six . |
| 18 | EOS is still tussling with the fact that shrinking the board 's size cuts the number of memory banks it fits from eight to six . |
| 19 | To prevent collusion between employer and employee , the local authority is not obliged to do this when the tied cottager is still employed by the farmer ( who could otherwise obtain a council house for the tenant by threatening to terminate his employment ) . |
| 20 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
| 21 | Tracie is still staying at the £750,000 house with the children while Davidson lives in hotel rooms . |
| 22 | Though the title ‘ Feast Sing ’ is still printed on the programme , the feast has disappeared and the sing has become attached to the Holmfirth Musical Festival . |
| 23 | The highest authority of the Fund is still exercised by the board of governors , but the constitution of the interim committee is such that decisions taken there are usually ratified by the full board when it meets annually in the autumn . |
| 24 | Some writers have argued that since the parties became so strong , it was inevitable that the influence formerly exercised on the floor of the House should decline but that much the same influence is still exercised by the meetings of the parliamentary parties . |
| 25 | But the total flux should not be affected because it is still related to the applied voltage by eqn ( 4.66 ) . |
| 26 | Some 80% of total group turnover is still generated in the UK , however . |
| 27 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 28 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 29 | The first , St Joseph 's in Marton Road , had space for 200 children but objected since it is still recovering from the effects of housing another primary school following a major fire . |
| 30 | In our society , a woman 's identity is still organized around the home , domestic work and child-rearing . |