Example sentences of "[conj] they be still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem that on the northwest side , where they are still sought , the marshy area of ground formed a natural limit to their position . |
| 2 | Where they are still organized separately from social services , education welfare officers can sum up an area 's state of mind as well as help — or question — individual families , at least up to the time when centralized social work services are cut back . |
| 3 | Women working in the media in Poland are preparing to assert their right to full participation in their profession , as well as in their churches , where they are still excluded from the decision-making processes . |
| 4 | It was in this role that he removed the relics of the Three Wise Men from Milan , and placed them in Cologne Cathedral , where they are still found to this day . |
| 5 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 6 | The modem newspaper horoscope has largely taken over from dream-books , although they are still published , and still draw largely on the works of Artemidorus ( or claim to ) . |
| 7 | In the second phase they tend to be more regional , although they are still dispersed over considerable distances , up to 200 km apart . |
| 8 | Although they were still deprived by injury of their regular central defenders Ratcliffe and Watson , they managed to defend efficiently by using Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 9 | The change in their knowledge and expectations was accompanied by a change in what they saw , although they were still viewing the same physical objects . |
| 10 | So-called food gifts arriving in Saratov were forced out of Ukrainian peasants by the food-collecting army ( Prodovol'stvennaia armiia ) , although they were still paying agricultural taxes which had been waived in the Volga provinces . |
| 11 | A few miles further on they left the motorway , although they were still following a main road . |
| 12 | This is because they pay a premium rate to be ‘ first in break ’ , on the basis that more people are still watching ( prior to making the tea , or whatever ) , and that they 're still watching more attentively . |
| 13 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |
| 14 | Nick Thenotsy is chairman of Oxfordshire 's NUPE , Nick do you think this is good or bad news that they 're still talking ? |
| 15 | The Sports Council recognises the quality of our training courses but however insists that they are still taking too long . |
| 16 | A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction . |
| 17 | Everyone planning to start a baby should check with their doctor that they are still protected against German Measles . |
| 18 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 19 | The oil-shipping system is basically safe — so safe that men forget that they are still required to run it properly . |
| 20 | Practitioners who initially took a stance against involvement in purchasing because of their concerns over fundholding leading to a two tier system need to be persuaded that they are still needed in influencing purchasing decisions overall . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's sad that having made the assurances in court and accepted that it was n't an acceptable way of doing business , that it turns out that they are still carrying on . ’ |
| 22 | They plan to introduce a system of on-going evaluation of their broadcasts by interviewing listeners to ensure that they are still giving their public what they want . |
| 23 | It was a farce , a terrible play , but still a real play because these two were acting out a charade of fright and face-saving and if he did anything to break the illusion that they were still taking decisions for themselves then he was going to get himself shot . |
| 24 | My parents wrote to say that they were still getting some quite nasty tip-and-run raids . |
| 25 | Arriving back at the large beach house , she took the two sleepy children upstairs to their large bedroom , firmly overriding their protests that no , they really did n't want a bath by pointing out to them that they were still covered with sand and sea water . |
| 26 | And management at the Trawsfynydd power station made it clear yesterday that they were still looking for up to 50 voluntary redundancies at the station this year . |
| 27 | It was a measure of McLaren 's problems that they were still working long after that . |
| 28 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 29 | We know from the observations of Herodotus nearly a century later that they were still treating the animal with the utmost respect . |
| 30 | Erm , the second sort is a gap which is a brief silence , usually sort of one second or less , between the end of one turn , and the next speaker actually starting to speak , so they 're still thinking about what they 're going to say . |