Example sentences of "is still [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soil creep is still moving the weathered rocks down the slopes but it is not often that the changing river channel is directly below a slope to remove this rock debris . |
| 2 | The first function of the Commons is still to sustain an effective government . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the government is still taking the cheap option , not the best . |
| 4 | And this BSA built in 1927 is still enjoying an active life … |
| 5 | Those who know him have no doubt that the Senior Tour is still to see the best of him . |
| 6 | In Tibet Ngawang Buchung , a monk from the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa , is still serving a 19-year sentence imposed at a mass sentencing rally in November 1989 . |
| 7 | Another of the seven students , 20-year-old Wahyudi , a prisoner featured in the April/May 1989 issue , is still serving a seven-year sentence in Cilacap , Central Java . |
| 8 | Finally we can obtain an estimate of the yield There are other , similar measures with slightly different definitions , but the aim is still to estimate the same quantities . |
| 9 | But some things are still the same ; the old yard near the farmhouse is still thereand the old barn covered with its First World War tin roof . |
| 10 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 11 | A decade later and it is still tackling the controversial issues and delighting its loyal audience . |
| 12 | The MBO team , heavily supported by CAMRA , is still negotiating a similar deal . |
| 13 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 14 | Forster shows women in apparently similar circumstances — their objective is still to marry a suitable gentleman . |
| 15 | And , at the age of 82 ( ‘ I do n't feel it ’ ) , this grand old Press warrior is still putting a candid pen to paper . |
| 16 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 17 | We have been here almost a year now and the Revd Brunton Scott is still having a great affect on our lives . |
| 18 | He probably thinks everyone is still having a good time out there somewhere in the fog . |
| 19 | The Office of Fair Trading is still examining the American Raytheon 's £250m bid for Corporate Jets to see whether it complies with EC competition rules . |
| 20 | The Office of Fair Trading is still examining the American Raytheon 's £250m bid for Corporate Jets to see whether it complies with EC competition rules . |
| 21 | LATEST figures show Cheshire 's police force is still fighting a losing battle against a rising tide of crime . |
| 22 | So after fifty years , they say , the world 's best-known aid organisation is still fighting the same battles . |
| 23 | Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve . |
| 24 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 25 | Therapy is still considered a marginal thing but I really do n't see why . |
| 26 | Whether the nurse gains clinical experience in the ward as an apprentice or as a student-observer , the main aim is still to provide the best nursing care possible for the patient . |
| 27 | Lenders have confirmed that they do not seek possession where the borrower has suffered a severe reduction in income support but is still making a regular and routine payment , nor will they repossess — which is the point that I was making — where income support is paid direct to them . |
| 28 | Thirty years later , Healey says in his book , he is still making the same speech . |
| 29 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 30 | The council is still spending a fair amount of its budget on tourism . |