Example sentences of "[pers pn] is still [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is still firmly embedded in the common man 's common sense , a fact which unscrupulous politicians are all too eager to exploit . |
| 2 | 2 In spite of the enormous flow of creative production by women over the last 20 years or so , much of it is still little known outside ‘ feminist art ’ circles . |
| 3 | It is still widely used on citrus fruit , soybeans , coffee beans , tobacco , cotton and other crops . |
| 4 | There is , obviously , quite a lot of work being done in the relatively straightforward field of identifying advertising 's effect on sales through econometric methods , though it is still largely confined to about half-a-dozen large agencies and a similarly limited group of client companies . |
| 5 | But it is still generally recognized as a Methodist village , and Hannah is counted among the worshippers at the chapel who are , in the main , elderly . |
| 6 | It is still generally known as the gateway to the Emmental . |
| 7 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 8 | I 'd like to return to Spurn whilst it is still there to return to — before the gales of winter win their battle and demolish it yet again . |
| 9 | This lays it open to Walter Benjamin 's critique even more than the classic realist novel , for it is still further removed from his concept of storytelling . |
| 10 | In such a close-knit community as Shetland ( it is still relatively closeknit despite claims to the contrary ) it is unlikely that viewpoints could be sequestered away . |
| 11 | In this sense , despite the greater sophistication of this analysis , it is still centrally located within an instrumentalist account of power in capitalist society and suffers from an over-reliance on defining the state as an object for class rule . |
| 12 | Chapter 4 will make it clear that there is today a crisis of credibility with respect to this particular theory of the constitution , but , even so , it is still actively promulgated as an account of the reality of British politics . |
| 13 | In such cases the extended family begins to look quite complex , but it is still essentially based upon the original pair , and when young do become fully adult they are driven away or wander off on their own to form separate pairs . |
| 14 | The Commission and the European Parliament have conducted regular opinion polls over many years to monitor the development of such an identity , but it is still only felt by a small minority of Europeans . |
| 15 | He is still regularly mentioned as a possible secretary of state should the Democrats regain the White House . |
| 16 | He is still vividly scarred from his recent encounter with a lion . |
| 17 | Though one of the youngest dogs in training at Romford — he is still officially classified as a puppy — PJ has already demonstrated a fine turn of paw , winning over 400 metres earlier this month and cracking the 25-second barrier for the first . |