Example sentences of "[is] still [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's hard work building a nest , but there s still time to stop and share a tit bit .
2 There is still scope for this funny old game to become even funnier .
3 Originally intended to be three volumes , it expanded to four , and there is still scope for more , particularly as the termites are treated rather briefly .
4 There is still scope for conducting trading operations through an IOFC .
5 Saxton Bampfylde represents a more recent example of a breakaway this time from John Stork — suggesting that there is still scope for start-ups in headhunting .
6 So there is still scope for further delay .
7 There is still scope therefore for the artist , but no longer for the run-of-the-mill artist , in scientific illustration .
8 Standardization only refers to certain aspects of a product 's design — there is still scope for variation .
9 Although the bulk of production will be consumed by the group , there is still scope for external customers , a point he considers of special significance with the advent of 1992 and the potential of orders from Europe .
10 Although sterling is now in the ERM there is still scope for reasonable movement and possible realignment .
11 This is still minute in relation to the number of health technologies used in the NHS , however .
12 I mean , it can turn gold into copper while at the same time it is still gold , it makes men rich by destroying their possessions , it allows the weak to walk fearlessly among thieves , it passes through the strongest doors to leach the most protected treasuries .
13 It is still February mum .
14 Even for the engineer there is still hope .
15 Yet there is still hope .
16 Yet for the moment there is still hope , a desperate hope of a near miss .
17 Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place .
18 Third , and less depressing than the first two , Corinth is not completely excavated ( most of what the modern visitor sees is Roman ) and there is still hope that the classical agora may produce evidence of the kind we want ; though to get it , the excavators ( the American School in Athens ) will need permission to dig under the main square of the modern town .
19 We are fleeing Earth for a new world while there is still hope , while there are still changes .
20 There is still hope that talks can succeed .
21 Perhaps there is still hope that professional golf will move away from the humdrum format of 72-hole medals and the public will realise that these events become viewable only at their conclusion when they turn into match-play .
22 I notice that neither John Scales or Alan Kernaghan have moved clubs yet so there is still hope that we 'll purchase one of them .
23 Perhaps there is still hope for the Medau Display Team !
24 Although countries like Mexico , Chile and Brazil have budding film industries , the products of which are now reaching the industrialised world , it is still North American and European films that predominate in the cinemas of Mexico City , Santiago and São Paulo .
25 There is still £6 billion from the sale of council homes locked away that could be released to give a boost to the construction industry .
26 Perhaps not quite a complete conversionbut the campaigns orgainsers say there is still tim e for the new religion to spread .
27 In the barn below the gallery there is still equipment for making swill baskets and older residents in the area remember swills being made on the gallery .
28 Council tax or no , their main grouse is still lack of spending power : 85% of local-council revenues are determined by central government , which also limits spending directly .
29 Among American artists , Basquiat is down 50% from his 1990 peak though a mainstream work now averaging £22,000 is still 200% ahead of the 1985 level .
30 The myth was used by early churchmen as a vehicle for expressing their horror and disgust at women 's bodies : ‘ What is the difference whether it is in a wife or in a mother , it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any other woman1 , ’ wrote St Augustine in the late fourth century .
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