Example sentences of "is still often [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The likes of Gordon Brown , Tony Blair , John Smith and Martin O'Neill have made good impressions , though Neil Kinnock , who got on famously badly with Ronald Reagan but adequately with Mr Bush , is still often referred to by the few Americans who pay any attention to British politics as ‘ the Welsh windbag ’ . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
4 | Yet , alongside the new ownership pattern , the arrangement of hundreds still persisted and , although there were changes in the early medieval period , the older pattern of estates is still often reflected in hundredal arrangements . |
5 | In , for example , Enlightenment natural law , theoretical and ethical spheres are not yet separate , to the extent that moral practical or normative validity is still often grounded in ( theoretical ) fact . |
6 | This general view is still often held by anthropologists and has been repeatedly advocated by , among others , the British anthropologist E. R. Leach , for example , in his article ‘ Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category Tapu ’ Leach , 1958 ] . |