Example sentences of "[subord] this [be] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of women postgraduate students has also substantially increased , from 21 per cent in 1965–6 to 32 per cent in 1983–4 , although this is still significantly below the proportion of women undergraduates , and is far from an equitable distribution between the sexes . |
| 2 | Although this is still far too many it represents a substantial improvement . |
| 3 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
| 4 | Although this was still well below the OPEC target price of $21 , it represented a success for the decision to restrict production since February , Saudi Arabia in particular having accepted a lower quota ( of 7,887,000 bpd ) . |
| 5 | But you owe two months ’ rent now and I 'm afraid I must ask you to find other accommodation in a week 's time if this is still outstanding . ’ |
| 6 | If this is still the case next May he apparently wins a Swiss watch from The Sun in honour of the acheivement ! |
| 7 | As Dr Wallace Hooper , quality systems manager , points out , ‘ the unit operations still use 1960s chemical technology because this is still the state of the art in the field ’ . |
| 8 | Most people do not make their position explicit , partly at least because this is still one of the many questions to which we have uncertain answers . |
| 9 | Then coat the outside with a bonding agent and , while this is still tacky , pat on a moistened mixture of 2 parts peat , 1 part sand and 1 part cement . |
| 10 | And in fact we even er I 'm not sure whether this is still in operation , but we even give them an idea of the categories . |
| 11 | Once a literary agent has accepted your work , you stand a better chance of getting it published , though this is still not guaranteed . |
| 12 | Elsewhere some of these embryonic foreign offices were developing and growing , though this was still often a slow process . |
| 13 | The special field of organic chemistry was already flourishing , though this was still confined to the properties — mainly the properties useful in production — of materials derived from sources that had once been alive , such as coal . |
| 14 | In so far as this is still true it is a hangover from history . |
| 15 | Buster somehow or other was found to have one of the instruments , and so he was put on a charge and ultimately he was sentenced to be flogged as this was still the practice in the Services . |