Example sentences of "are still largely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British are still largely complacent about their eating habits , despite a barrage of advice in recent years about the importance of a healthy diet , according to a report by market researcher Mintel . |
| 2 | For the most part , with the exception of South Africa , these are relatively poor states , with economies that are still largely tied to the export of primary commodities and are particularly vulnerable to external economic pressures and fluctuations in the world economy . |
| 3 | Women are far more restricted than men in their access to the reward structure of society , and women are still largely restricted to the private , family sphere . |
| 4 | Since then a host of antibiotics have been developed to fight bacteria but in the battle against viral infections we are still largely dependent on the body 's imperfect natural defences . |
| 5 | Since our history books are still largely written from the liberal side we are amazed to find Wordsworth on the side of the aristocracy and against the rising hopes of the people ; as he himself put it : ‘ I can not but be of opinion that the feudal power yet surviving in England is eminently serviceable in counteracting the popular tendency to reform . ’ |
| 6 | He possesses non-physical properties and energies that are still largely unknown and uncharted by traditional science . |
| 7 | Yet despite their growing popularity portables are still largely under-utilised . |
| 8 | Societies are still largely reproduced through this process . |
| 9 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |
| 10 | Navarrenx was refortified on Italian lines in the sixteenth century , so that its defences might be proof against the new artillery , and the ramparts and towers designed then are still largely and imposingly intact . |
| 11 | Linguists have taken little notice of such communities in the past — their language is not part of the central ‘ canon ’ — and so such vernaculars are still largely peripheral to the general body of linguistic knowledge . |
| 12 | Nonetheless certain advances can be made at the national level , and given that politics and governmental power are still largely national in scope certain advances must be made at that level if they are to be made at all . |
| 13 | The practitioners are still largely in the state of new recruits to any government 's army , who will be required at an early stage to learn by rote the names of the standard machine-gun issue . |
| 14 | The ITN version suggests that the pickets are still largely to blame for the violence , but the police contribution to disorder is given more emphasis than in the BBC 's bulletin . |
| 15 | Most inner city councils have a long socialist tradition which makes them even less popular with the government , and despite some recent softening of the government 's attitude , local authorities are still largely excluded from inner city initiatives . |
| 16 | The structure of land ownership in the Highlands that allowed the infamous Clearances , and the extractive economy that was subsequently imposed on the area , are still largely in place today , and have reduced it to semi-desert . |