Example sentences of "is still [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
| 8 | Some core is still curated by the BGS . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Spain , Housman Overseas is no longer active in the Costa del Sol , although it is still dealing with the Costa Blanca . |
| 13 | His whole speech is still dictated by the formality with which he began . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Wyllie is confident his Western Samoan wing , Va'aiga Tuigamala , will play although he is still niggled by an ankle injury received against Neath two weeks ago . |
| 16 | And the latest news on the travellers movements is that a convoy is still moving along the A-forty-six between Cheltenham and Stroud . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , the gene is still expressed at a low level further emphasizing that the region between -190bp and -55bp is important for basal expression . |
| 20 | I help him ; we lift the rusting grating up at one end but the far side is still secured by an iron pin and we ca n't shift it any further . |
| 21 | This raises questions of how far work on women is still relegated to the sidelines of sociological inquiry and teaching . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Finstown is still served by an old-fashioned exchange , a fact which bothers him little . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Tracie is still staying at the £750,000 house with the children while Davidson lives in hotel rooms . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the next age range , 70–74 , the most common arrangement is still living with an elderly spouses but one in three elderly people are living by themselves , often because their spouse has died . |
| 30 | 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 . |