Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] [be] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Despite three decades of campaigning by homosexuals to remove the stigma from their sexuality , to call a man a queer in Britain is still an actionable insult in the minds of the ‘ right-thinking people ’ who make up libel juries . |
| 3 | A certificate of judgement is still required , but see r 27 enabling judgment creditors to prepare documents for the court . |
| 4 | His design for a museum in Dresden is still under consideration . |
| 5 | Should the latter be the case , the concern expressed last week at the Bookseller Association Conference by BA president John Hitchin , that the threat of a tax on books was still a live issue , was not ill-founded . |
| 6 | The bump readers , who once moved among the great and the good , are almost gone ; though a handful of practitioners are still living , phrenology is officially dead . |
| 7 | In 1969 , nearly one third of Spain 's freight and almost a quarter of Britain 's still went by rail . |
| 8 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 9 | Ten years later a state of emergency is still in force , renewed in May 1991 for a further three years , and political detainees held incommunicado under emergency provisions continue to be denied basic protection against torture . |
| 10 | True demi-caractère dancers with a sense of comedy are still rare but they are to be found . |
| 11 | All that I can say on the fixed link between Euston and the new complex — because I mentioned that a number of options are still being considered — is that it will be a dedicated link . |
| 12 | The formal agreement of a number of vendors is still being sought for the planned Unix Common Desktop Environment , CDE . |
| 13 | A number of others are still being held for questioning . |
| 14 | Government legislation has sharply reduced the scope for this , but a number of councils are still interested in developing it as far as they can . |
| 15 | A number of clades are still too poorly known to be included . |
| 16 | Though a form of categorisation was still being executed in the form of a separate story for each moral , the new abstract subject involved use of invention and illustrated animals through their engagement with fable became anthropomorphically represented . |
| 17 | Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door . |
| 18 | When he uttered those words , a lot of development was still taking place in Britain ; in fact it was only this summer that it ended , leaving commercial centres throughout the land replete with unlet space in shopping complexes , offices , business parks and industrial estates . |
| 19 | Although a lot of work is still to be done in this area , this technique appears to offer a new , more precise , quicker and less laborious method of identifying grains . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're finding that they 're getting reviewed , but quite a lot of papers are still bad about it , ’ says Ms Callil . |
| 21 | It 's wonderful to be back but it 's also very sad because a lot of people are still in Iraq and Kuwait and they need to be got out . |
| 22 | While some of last year 's stockpile has vanished , a lot of oil is still sloshing around in storage . |
| 23 | I remember the old days when layouts were readable , ZZAP ! cost under two quid and a packet of polos were still ten pence . |