Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is still [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ayer then tells the theist that he or she is still unable to make meaningful theological statements , then it can not surely be on the basis of the verification principle , the principle by which he claims to distinguish meaningful from meaningless statements . |
| 2 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 3 | In the context of user education in schools , however , where there is still some substantial funding and many of the projects have yet to be finally and fully reported , the impact will probably be somewhat different ; although because of the slowness of the dissemination process it is too early to say how much and in what way . |
| 4 | ‘ For capital growth , I 'd invest mainly in smaller companies funds , with a bit in US smaller companies where there is still some scope , possibly through the Perpetual US Smaller Companies trust . |
| 5 | Paula plays the part of ageing beauty queen Diane , who is trying to convince herself that she is still young and nubile enough to vie for the title Miss Golden Gate . |
| 6 | He is sure that , although there is still much to be done , C&P is already past the critical point . |
| 7 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 8 | Four months ' observations of QB 1 reveal an orbit that would be expected for a Kuiper-belt object , although there is still considerable uncertainty in the eccentricity . |
| 9 | Although there is still some variation in the size of constituency electorates and their populations ( after the redrawing of their boundaries in 1983 ) , the simple comparison of numbers unemployed ( claimants ) at the 1987 election is useful . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Amdahl says that while it believes that there is still strong demand for its mainframes , demand is proving erratic . |
| 11 | The defenders of the new arrangements will no doubt claim that there is still reasonable scope for pupil-centred learning , for cultural diversity , and for the exercise of professional autonomy , even within a nationally determined curriculum framework . |
| 12 | I pick up my jacket with the back of my hand and open the door , then realize that there is still one box I have n't looked in — the Quaker Oats box that I was sitting on . |
| 13 | The most noticeable feature is that there is still little or no evidence of multi-culturalism . |
| 14 | Finally , it is perhaps worth concluding this section by emphasizing that there is still much controversy among the scientific community about the magnitude of many of the effects being discussed . |
| 15 | ‘ It must be stressed , however , ’ we noted , ‘ that the book has an optimistic tone , asserting that there is still much to be gained from life even in the quickening twilight years . ’ |
| 16 | Despite considerable progress over the years , the Auditor General 's Department consider that there is still much progress to be made . |
| 17 | Despite the satisfactory turnround into clear profitability , Ewart is not complacent and reckons that there is still much to be done to secure an even more robust business through the 1990s . |
| 18 | Yet apart from the obvious general fact that there is still insufficient concern about process evaluation and that there is a regrettable tendency for people to embark upon long and costly courses of action without carefully considering whether they are necessary or possible , there remain two major issues to cause concern in the countries I visited . |
| 19 | We suggest that there is still widespread under reporting of alcoholic liver disease , with the greater rather than the lesser proportion of chronic liver disease deaths being alcohol related . |
| 20 | However , Europe 's per capita consumption is still less than half that of the US or Japan , showing that there is still considerable scope for further growth . |
| 21 | [ It should be noted , however , that there is still considerable controversy about the wearing of masks . |
| 22 | Although Chester has several establishments already catering for the conference trade , the indications are that there is still significant undercapacity . |
| 23 | It seems that there is still some mileage in the situation which arose in February 1992 , when at a meeting in Minsk the presidents of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed the now infamous Agreement on the Return of Cultural and Historical Treasures to their States of Origin ( The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 2 ) . |
| 24 | It is clear , however , from the variety of lexicons used in the systems in Chapter 2 that there is still little agreement about how lexical items should be represented . |
| 25 | Although the deadline was the end of last year , many companies still have n't done so , so there is still much potential for growth , especially as these countries have far less foreign debt than any of their Eastern European neighbours . |
| 26 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
| 27 | Although it is still legal to resort to the matches this season , provided the job is done properly , a late harvest followed by a wet autumn could come as a nasty reminder that cereal-growing is not the doddle many would have us believe . |
| 28 | The anti-nuclear movement grew throughout the 1980s ; nationalist and separatist movements have revived , for example in Scotland and Quebec ; the women 's movement has had an increasing influence , although it is still far from accomplishing its larger aims ; and ecology movements have become widespread and more influential . |
| 29 | The electron density observed in the ligand-binding pocket of A2U is different in shape , located closer to one side of the barrel and slightly less deep in the binding pocket than in MUP ( Fig. 3 ) , although it is still consistent with the size and shape of a number of pheromones . |
| 30 | Although it is still early in the Finn selection battle , Childerley already has easily the best record . |