Example sentences of "and [is] still [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets . |
| 2 | One of these entered the popular literature and is still repeated by journalists , despite the fact that Hugh McClean , who , in admitting his part in the Shankill UVF killings , is supposed to have said : ‘ I am terribly sorry I ever heard of that man Paisley or decided to follow him ’ , later denied making such a statement to the police . |
| 3 | Dill-water or gripe-water is , at any rate , several hundred years old in usage , and is still called upon today . |
| 4 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 5 | Their exclusive claim to punish clergymen for ordinary offences has long since disappeared ; the power to try and punish laymen for immorality has become practically obsolete ; their jurisdiction over the matters of ritual , and ecclesiastical offences of clergymen , such as heresy , still remains and is still exercised by them . |
| 6 | With 27 branches nationwide , Beaverbrooks has retained its outstanding reputation for fine quality jewellery and is still run as a family concern , with customer satisfaction the most important guiding principle . |
| 7 | Literary studies remain a specific and coherent science ; literariness still remains its object , and is still constituted by the differential strategy which opposes defamiliarization and automatization . |
| 8 | If the carriage stops short and is still connected to the band , when you then try to take the lace carriage across , the band can not move and it will snap . |
| 9 | Darlington man Keith Pringle was shot in the neck by a marksman and is still recovering in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 10 | Sally uses mixed media and is still experimenting with other materials . |
| 11 | The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions . |
| 12 | He came into pentathlon through swimming , his strongest event — and is still struggling with the fencing . |
| 13 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 14 | The sickle is one of the oldest surviving implements in farming , and is still used in Suffolk — in the Bures district — but for harvesting thyme for seed and not for corn . |
| 15 | This question the politics of cancer and is still used in health and educational venues . |
| 16 | Maris Otter was first listed as an approved variety by the Barley Committee of the Institute of Brewing 26 years ago and is still used by brewers such as Youngs , Brakspear and Eldridge Pope . |
| 17 | In later centuries the mace was to become an emblem of authority , and is still used by town councils and corporations in Europe as a ceremonial implement . |
| 18 | The ‘ lucky ’ tag stuck , however , for years after and is still used by people ignorant of its origins . |
| 19 | According to Naisbitt , this technique was used extensively by American intelligence during the Second World War and is still used by intelligence services today . |
| 20 | It was found in Troy , in Mesopotamia , and is still used by the Navajo and Hopi Indians in the USA in their rituals and art work . |
| 21 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 22 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
| 23 | Similarly , in the Soviet Union assembly approval for presidential appointments was required under Gorbachev 's presidential system and is still required in some of the successor republics . |
| 24 | Dating from 1892 , ‘ Sutton Globe ’ has stood the test of time and is still offered by the company |
| 25 | Alan , who hurt his back , has n't worked since and is still fighting for compensation . |
| 26 | It was the first accurate map and is still considered as one of the finest examples of the engravers ' art . |
| 27 | As a constituency Member , he was without equal , and there is no doubt of the respect and affection in which he was and is still held in our constituency . ’ |
| 28 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 29 | Tree worship of this sort was a feature of pagan Germanic , Norse and early Celtic culture , and is still found in myth , legend and folklore in many variant forms . |