Example sentences of "are still [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sums , of course , are still beyond the reach of most Varsovians , but , typical Slavs , the Poles are great dreamers . |
| 2 | They are opposed to the suggestion that women with young children should stay at home rather than go to work , accept that women are still at a disadvantage when it comes to advancement at work , but they do n't think there should be more positive discrimination in women 's favour . |
| 3 | Nutrients are still at a premium here , so the plants form an association with a fungus pezzizella ericae which enables the heather to have a higher nitrogen uptake and to be more resistant to elements of heavy metals found in the soil . |
| 4 | As far as price goes , these machines are still at the budget end of the market . |
| 5 | fast reactors , which are still at the development stage , are fuelled by plutonium or a mixture of plutonium and uranium . |
| 6 | ‘ Their emergency planning was very good , ’ he said , ‘ but the lack of experience of the Chinese showed up in their preparedness and their procedures showed they are still at the development stage in their nuclear programme . |
| 7 | Investigators are still at the scene in Woodside Road , trying to establish the cause of the blaze . |
| 8 | The emergency services are still at the scene . |
| 9 | All this , and Hartlepool United are still at the bottom of the Fourth Division . |
| 10 | Africa , the Arab world and the South Pacific are still at the beginning of working out their own teaching resources . |
| 11 | ‘ We are still at the beginning of this new media , ’ suggested Mr Kindersley . |
| 12 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 13 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 14 | Demonstrators are being treated with restraint , and dissidents , although under surveillance and sometimes harassed , are still at the moment free to speak out . |
| 15 | So if you are still at the baby stage now , enjoy it . |
| 16 | The bottles are still at the site . |
| 17 | Egon Zehnder has only ever employed 140 consultants , and 100 of those are still with the firm . |
| 18 | Remove any bits of gravel or splinters which are still on the surface . |
| 19 | Before then Courtaulds had worked through agents , supplying fibre to customers such as Luserna , of Turin , who first bought viscose rayon in 1947 and are still on the company 's books . |
| 20 | The population has been increasing so fast in most Latin American countries that despite out-migration , the numbers of the peasantry are still on the increase . |
| 21 | It is now cheaper to dump hazardous waste in Britain than it was three years ago , and consequently our imports are still on the increase . |
| 22 | Despite the consumer alert , additives are still on the increase . |
| 23 | But although figures released by the Home Office today show some grounds for optimism , robbery and burglary , the crimes people fear most , are still on the increase . |
| 24 | How many fictional concentration camp butchers are still on the run in the jungles of the Amazon ? |
| 25 | 4 of the escaped prisoners were recaptured in Gloucester city centre within half an hour ; 2 others are still on the run . |
| 26 | The names are still on the map — Flowerdale , Letterewe , Fisherfield . |
| 27 | But I have got to remind people that we are still on the bottom . ’ |
| 28 | Town are still on the bottom of the table but for Swindon the season starts here |
| 29 | Half my photos are still on the wall at home |
| 30 | But Aston Martin point to the fact that of the 12,000 of their cars built over 80 years , 9,000 are still on the road . |