Example sentences of "is still [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way .
2 Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England .
3 Yet retirement is still viewed as the beginning of the end , rather than , for many , the threshold to the last third of life .
4 However , allowing credit to turn into debt is still viewed as a result of inadequacy or recklessness on the part of the individual .
5 THE Chernobyl disaster was seven years ago this week ( 26 April 1986 ) is still treated as a growing menace in the Ukraine and Belarus .
6 Officially the electric HST is still intended as a stopgap for the much-delayed advanced passenger train .
7 Five years on from The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil , Julie is still recognised as Ruth , the dowdy , downtrodden housewife who adopted a wide range of disguises and underwent major plastic surgery to wreak revenge on her unfaithful husband , played by Dennis Waterman .
8 Today he lives in the Eastern Thai town of Trat and , although officially retired , is still regarded as the overall leader of the Khmer Rouge .
9 On the Continent mercantile law is still regarded as something separate from the ordinary law .
10 A decision by a single judge on assize in 1865 is still regarded as authority for this proposition , but there is surely little justification for this today .
11 Despite the fact that the state system of education is over 100 years old , it is still regarded as a fundamental duty of parenthood to educate one 's child .
12 The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country .
13 This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature .
14 It is still regarded as a preconceived construct which incorporates goals for learning , and its relationship with a methodology which activates the immediate process of learning remains as undefined as before .
15 Ironically , despite her growing success ( the initial print run for Body Thief in hardback is the colossal figure of 500,000 ) , Anne Rice is still regarded as a ‘ cult ’ author by the close-knit literary establishment in both America and Britain .
16 Indeed , a radical reform of collective bargaining in the interests of acquiring greater control of the wage-determination process is still regarded as a prerequisite for any long-term , effective incomes policy .
17 In the twentieth century the rose is still regarded as something basically British , regal and exalted ; it symbolizes quality and superiority .
18 With justice , his book is still regarded as the soundest narrative account of the war available to English-speaking readers .
19 The disparity of provision partly reflects the lack of understanding by teachers of the purpose of a school library , and ways in which it should be used in the curriculum , so that it is still regarded as a peripheral concern , a room open for pupils in the lunch hour and for English lessons for children to borrow books .
20 Although a significant proportion of women remain economically active until the age of 60 or even 65 , retirement is still regarded as a predominantly male experience .
21 I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person .
22 In such definitions , ‘ race ’ is still conceived as a false representation of reality rather than as part of the process of constructing an operative symbolic and social reality : literally , a common sense .
23 With 27 branches nationwide , Beaverbrooks has retained its outstanding reputation for fine quality jewellery and is still run as a family concern , with customer satisfaction the most important guiding principle .
24 As the organisation grows there will be a partial delegation of these functions to branches , but because the business is still run as a single unit ( even though it may produce a wide variety of products at many separate locations ) responsibility for operational matters , as well as long-term strategy , remains with top management .
25 Yet King Hussein is still perceived as one of the most moderate leaders in the region .
26 He also suggests why , nonetheless , it is still perceived as a serious betrayal of the marriage .
27 Delicacy is essential , for the Javanese are still touchy and Sukarno , though under a cloud , is still perceived as a great national hero .
28 This is still seen as one of the most important events in the history of mankind .
29 France has pursued such policies for many years and this rationalisation and reallocation of land — remembrement — is still seen as a major long-term aim .
30 Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy .
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