Example sentences of "is still [being] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the knock-on effect of the slump is still being felt out in the provinces . |
| 2 | Although the White House had convinced itself that a Labour victory would be perfectly tolerable , the President is undoubtedly pleased that Britain is still being run by a man and a party he knows he can rely on . |
| 3 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 4 | The other question I 've got is presumably all this is still being done within what we 've got in the budget , or is it , are there going to be extra bids ? |
| 5 | More than 2 tonnes of the waste , contaminated with 300 grams of dioxin , that was scraped from the inside of the pot is still being sought by environmentalists who believe that it , too , may land up in the sea . |
| 6 | The formal agreement of a number of vendors is still being sought for the planned Unix Common Desktop Environment , CDE . |
| 7 | An area to be used for open air range is still being sought in or around Edinburgh . |
| 8 | An area to be used for open air range is still being sought in or around Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Bowen staged an escape while being brought to court in December last year , Mark Williams is in hospital after becoming ill during the trial and Bush is still being sought after breaking out of the court last week with four of the other accused . |
| 10 | Welsh Office approval is still being sought for the conversion of a disused coal power station , owned by PowerGen at Connah 's Quay , Clwyd , to the gas-fired technology which would burn much of the fuel from the field . |
| 11 | Welsh Office approval is still being sought for the conversion of a disused coal power station , owned by PowerGen , at Connah 's Quay , Clwyd , to the gas-fired technology which would burn much of the mined fuel . |
| 12 | Even the Commission acknowledges that 10 per cent of the EC 's annual budget — about £3 billion — is still being lost in fraud ; it is a point the British will not forbear to mention now that they are being asked to pay an extra £1 billion per year into EC coffers . |
| 13 | An increasing amount of work is still being undertaken in this area by the Secretariat . |
| 14 | History is still being made with antiviral agents from the same laboratories . |
| 15 | Far more money is still being made in talking about biotechnology than in actually doing it . |
| 16 | The Scottish wildcat is still being hunted despite having been a protected species since 1988 , according to a report from the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 17 | A MAN on the run from the French Foreign Legion and branded ‘ Psycho ’ by his former comrades is still being hunted by murder squad detectives . |
| 18 | A SEX attacker who pounced on a woman early on Sunday in Troon as she walked home from a night out is still being hunted by police . |
| 19 | Failures of understanding aside , the history of the camp is still being revised , and each revision is painful . |
| 20 | A second problem is that the calculation of the half-life of carbon 14 is still being refined . |
| 21 | The package is still being refined , and five local authorities have been involved with formal evaluation feeding back information from a core sample of 200 children who have been assessed using the schedules . |
| 22 | The art of mime was developed by the commedia dell'arte and is still being developed by such artists as Marcel Marceau and the mime theatres of Poland and Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | The technique is still being developed ; it is now possible to image surface structures on a television screen , using a beam focused to one micrometre to scan the surface . |
| 24 | The results are very good , considering that the software is still being developed . |
| 25 | Amorphous cell technology is still being developed . |
| 26 | Here 's now nine of the applicants ( one of the places is still being decided ) described themselves in their applications , together with some of their concerns , interests and plans for the future . |
| 27 | They were started as early as 1461 , and the system is still being extended and improved today . |
| 28 | The country as well as Mr Major are very fortunate to have such a safe pair of hands at the Foreign Office at a time when the vital question of Britain 's future within the European Union is still being determined . |
| 29 | This decision , and its reasoning , is still being relied on in the growing number of tax-diversion cases that are currently coming before the inferior courts in England and Scotland , and it has most recently been affirmed as decisive by the High Court once more , in Boulton v. |
| 30 | The first British single release for this month is still being debated , but whichever track is picked , Me Phi Me is confident his message is strong enough to be heard the world over . |