Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] which [is] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 2 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 3 | Area panels which have been so bitterly criticised , and neighbourhood forums , have since confirmed the wisdom of that process and the rejection of a Tory budget process , driven not by the needs of the community but the need to deliver the firm Thatcherite message which is still there , set a poll tax as low as possible and then work your priorities backwards irrespective of the consequences . |
| 4 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 5 | Looked at from Scotland , it is sadly tied up with Thatcherism , which , we hope , is something that will pass , since it goes against a better , more basic feeling which is still there . |
| 6 | The horticultural coup of the show is this unassuming little plant which is still in bud.A Victorian favourite called the double cream blackberry plant , it was thought to have disappeared.But nurseryman Bob Brown from Evesham spotted it in the United States . |
| 7 | The people in the photograph in the I ‘ –3()s saw the start of another great change which is still happening today . |
| 8 | Articles by Moore , Ray and Ahamed are collected together , along with a fact sheet , in an issue of ‘ Community Outlook ’ ( 1982 ) which is devoted to the subject of home accidents and clearly shows that there are many ways in which the nursing profession can contribute to their prevention ; although these articles are not recent , they contain useful information which is still relevant . |
| 9 | Nevertheless this is , as she says , a way of thinking about international politics which is still more or less in its infancy . |
| 10 | As in France and the UK , the number of consumers affected by water supplies with high nitrate levels is falling , but not the number of contaminated sources which is still rising in some regions . |
| 11 | One is the Best Imaginable — to work steadily to reduce the losses even further and eliminate the day-to-day variation which is still there . |
| 12 | The ravages of lung cancer have left him so little of them that his evidence in the pioneering case against Imperial Tobacco had to be given in advance of the full hearing which is still possibly two years away . |
| 13 | It is a complicated saga which is still unravelling , with the former parent company , Alan Paul , now in liquidation . |
| 14 | By the early thirteenth century the material becomes more relevant : ‘ Johannes de Erleia positus est loco Asciline matris sue optulit see iiij die versus Robertum de Juvenni de placito medietis tocius terre quam Robertus tenet de terra que fuit Radulfi de Insula … ‘ is a typical entry in a roll , and includes at least one name which is still found today — Erleigh ( Erlé ) — in the area to which the roll refers ; the name probably means ‘ eagle wood ’ . |
| 15 | There is therefore very much in Engels 's discussion of existing political organization which is still acceptable ; however , recent anthropological work makes it clear that if something like the notion of the gentile constitution is to be retained , the concept would have to be broadened to include a much greater variety of such systems than was , or could have been , envisaged by the founders of Marxism . |
| 16 | Lübeck Cathedral is an immense building which is still under restoration at the time of writing . |
| 17 | There is , however , a very important subsidiary question which is still a matter of controversy . |