Example sentences of "we are still [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 2 | Attitudes in the media are slowly changing , but we are still presented with stereotyped images of older people . |
| 3 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 4 | However , we are still faced with proposals for unsuitable new developments threatening the setting of more outstanding buildings ; and hundreds of listed buildings and churches stand empty and neglected , and at risk . |
| 5 | We are still engaged in the unfolding campaign that started with the massacre of our people in this township on 21 March 21 , 1960 . |
| 6 | to clarify we are still cared for , |
| 7 | Your letter of Sunday last was put into my hands this morning it having taken the Pilot with 5 men 4 days to reach this place so adverse has been the weather , you will therefore see we are still imprizoned [ sic ] here . |
| 8 | Although a list of words describing horses would be shorter ( we could leave out words like idealistic or religious ) , we are still left with a vast number . |
| 9 | But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did . |
| 10 | But underneath the veil of whimsy , we are still left with some valuable evidence of the life and traditions of those people in that place at that time . |
| 11 | We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing . |
| 12 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 13 | However , we are still left with the problem of combining these modified criteria into a single objective . |
| 14 | So if we find a sex difference in disfluency , we are still left with a problem of interpretation . |
| 15 | West Yorkshire 's chief probation officer said : ‘ The baffling thing is , even with hindsight , we are still left wondering what more we could have done to stop this killing ’ . |
| 16 | But we are still left with the problem of testing . |
| 17 | It is not always clear , for example , where the context of an utterance ends ( Cook 1986b ) , and even when that is established we are still left with the vagueness of the central concept of relevance . |
| 18 | In the language of political philosophy , power is deemed to be a concept that is ‘ essentially contested ’ which means that although the concept has featured prominently in political philosophy over the centuries and is now a major concern of organisation theorists we are still left with disputes over its meaning . |
| 19 | Yet we are still left with the impression that these two Greeks never quite understood what was really happening in the social organism which had become the guarantee of their own survival . |
| 20 | Nevertheless we are still left with the nagging question : under what circumstances will the actual rate of inflation exceed the expected rate of inflation ? |
| 21 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 22 | Now , shall we forget about it and concentrate on enjoying the Park while we are still allowed in it ? ’ |
| 23 | As a result , we are still designed around extremely basic forms of behaviour ; forms geared towards individual and social survival , despite the fact that people now live in societies where such behaviour is largely redundant for simple survival . |
| 24 | Jason Donovan is not seeking the full amount controversially awarded him by the jury in the High Court , but we are still required to pay him the sum of £95,000 in reduced costs and damages . |
| 25 | Finally , although you have stopped talking so much about commercialism , we are still told that competition between hospitals is the way to ensure efficiency in health care provision . |
| 26 | Yesterday , a spokesperson would only say : ‘ We are still committed to this part of the scheme and we will be going ahead with it as soon as the funding becomes available . ’ |