Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is still [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later comes a point of being unable to accept the loss , very often searching for the person who has gone and thinking that he or she is still there . |
| 2 | If you have n't got any issue but parents or fore brother or sister or the issue of that say it 's your nephews or nieces and you 've still got a spouse of course , she still is n't get She or he is still not going to get the whole lot . |
| 3 | They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses . |
| 4 | In non-western countries the model of health care which has been imported and which is still often considered to be optimal is one based on the same medical model . |
| 5 | If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain . |
| 6 | She has the best groundstrokes in the women 's game and she is still only 17 . |
| 7 | This was her 9th to date and she is still only 15 . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ She is going to make it but there is a long way to go and she is still seriously ill . |
| 9 | ‘ She is back home now and she is still very upset . |
| 10 | Site manager Ian Bruce agrees , ‘ We are achieving increased output and improved effiency , and there is still much that can be done to keep the business profitable . ’ |
| 11 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 12 | 67 years ' service at age 56 A Bedale man has completed a total of 67 years in two branches of public service and he is still only 56 . |
| 13 | And it is still firmly embedded in the common man 's common sense , a fact which unscrupulous politicians are all too eager to exploit . |
| 14 | Speaking to Christian supporters in east Beirut , General Aoun reminded the deputies in Taif that ‘ a war has erupted to liberate Lebanon and it is still on and it will continue until it achieves its goals ’ . |
| 15 | Outside the capital , gigs are rarer , and it is still barely possible to earn a proper living . |
| 16 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 17 | Now it is standing at a huge sum , growing rapidly , and it is still not going where it is needed ’ . |
| 18 | This is especially noticeable at cocktail and dinner parties , and it is still not unusual for the ladies to move to a separate room after dinner . |
| 19 | But of course this varied from place to place , from time to time , and it is still not clear how far working-class men and women did accept the domesticated role of married women , even in the diluted version which social circumstances could allow to become part of their lives . |
| 20 | The county council started the EDDR almost 50 years ago and it is still not finished . |
| 21 | The island has always been predominantly Roman Catholic , ever since the days of the first settlers , and it is still so today . |
| 22 | ‘ Interest rates are in the driving seat for the time being and it is still too early to buy , ’ says Mr Tora . |
| 23 | The bond between mother and daughter in Russia is a very strong one and it is still very common for a family of three generations to live together . |
| 24 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 25 | A thoroughly satisfying breakfast follows the post-mortem of the exercise , and it is still only 0530 hours ! |
| 26 | And it is still only 1922 . |
| 27 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 28 | In the minds of those who practice it ( and it is still quite common in scientific textbooks ) , the scientists of the past are effectively divided into heroes and villains . |
| 29 | You must forgive her , but she is still not herself . |
| 30 | But she is still not quite as she was , I take it ? ’ |