Example sentences of "still [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 2 | There are only a few coastal areas in Britain today still frequented by this attractive member of the corvine family . |
| 3 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 4 | However , it is still regarded by many members as the highlight of the season . |
| 5 | Next week I shall be talking with Tony Nuttall about Shakespeare and the reasons why he 's still regarded by many people as the greatest playwright of all time . |
| 6 | Despite the recent tremendous advances in synthetic fillings goose or duck down is still favoured by those after good performance , light weight and small pack size . |
| 7 | The elections established a new local government structure with considerably enhanced powers in place of local councils still dominated by former communists . |
| 8 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 9 | The traditional , vertical Champagne press , based on the concepts employed by Dom Pérignon , is still considered by many to be the best means of pressing grapes for the sparkling wine of Champagne . |
| 10 | Variations from such ballets as Petipa 's Don Quixote , Raymonda and La Bayadère and Bournonville 's Napoli are still considered by most classical dancers to be more technically demanding than the more complex twistings and turnings of modern choreographers who mix their styles . |
| 11 | Emergency portosystemic shunting is still recommended by some centres as the most effective therapy for bleeding while others prefer staple gun transection of the oesophagus which is the safer technique for the less experienced surgeon . |
| 12 | in effect , using BSL in further and higher education is still seen by many as part of the ‘ handicap of deafness ’ and something to be overcome in education rather than used . |
| 13 | The dip in interest reflects both the fact that environmental issues are still seen by many as irrelevant to pressing day to day concerns such as employment , and also the extensive media coverage of the Gulf War , which has distracted attention from other matters . |
| 14 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 15 | Although Delft is most famous for the beautiful blue and white , hand-painted ceramics , which are still made by several studios and workshops which are open to visitors , there are many other things to see and enjoy in the town . |
| 16 | The rise in recorded offences in many parts of the Western world in the first half of the nineteenth century played an important role in the original formulation of this belief , which is still accepted by many scholars . |
| 17 | In short , it must extend into the secondary age-range the trust still felt by many parents for the professional judgement of primary teachers . |
| 18 | Today , these taxes are still levied by many Third World governments because they are straightforward to collect and hard to evade . |
| 19 | In consequence of the practical success of the Takayanagi models they are still used by many polymer scientists to describe experimental results , particularly in the " compound " form illustrate in Figure 4.4 . |
| 20 | Bismuth is still used by some practitioners as an adjunct to penicillin therapy , but in most centres the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics has , at long last , brought an end to the many centuries during which the treatment of syphilis was worse than the disease itself . |
| 21 | The term ‘ AIDS-related complex ’ or ARC is still used by some doctors for HIV-related illness which does not meet the AIDS definition . |
| 22 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 23 | Does the Prime Minister still stand by that opinion — yes or no ? |
| 24 | Erik Satie is still thought by many people as something of a curiosity , albeit an important and influential one , in the history of French music . |
| 25 | Traditional Dutch costumes are still worn by many of the inhabitants of both villages . |
| 26 | In the afternoon travel on to Volendam , an old and picturesque village on the shore of the former Zuiderzee , where traditional Dutch costumes are still worn by many of the inhabitants . |
| 27 | However , there is one kind of measure which , though still affected by many of the variables mentioned above , may help us to conceptualize the undergraduate curriculum in relation to employment ; namely the occupational distribution of graduates in any one subject , which has been analysed in a recent paper by Tarsh ( 1988 ) in terms of the relative importance of direct , subject skills , and indirect , general skills . |
| 28 | The Army ordered sentries to wear flak jackets and constructed many sandbagged emplacements , although most barracks were still protected by little more than chain link fences . |
| 29 | And now she was here , and her mind was still shadowed by that unsolicited intelligence . |
| 30 | ‘ Our globe is still populated by many diverse worlds , but the public voices dominating it have become fewer and fewer . |