Example sentences of "[is] still [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Europe is still a continent of separate localities and traditions , but it is infinitely more homogeneous than it was . |
| 32 | The Labour Party is still a partner in the national unity government . |
| 33 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 34 | The Labour Party is still a partner in the national unity government . |
| 35 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 36 | But it is still a very large sum indeed , which may be viewed with some in credulity by the millions of lower paid people who have been hit by the Government 's attitudes on , for example , child benefits . |
| 37 | Mr Keith Vaz , a Labour member of the committee said : ‘ There is still a lack of confidence in the police force among black and Asian people . |
| 38 | It is more the fact that this is still a vast military entrepot , an extension of America 's armed might projected down towards South America . |
| 39 | There is still a good case for booking ahead now , but look for high resorts , preferably with a glacier as well as access to some non-skiing activities . |
| 40 | But the UK market is still a long way ahead of the worst performers in Datastream 's league table , Hong Kong and Switzerland . |
| 41 | Checkpoint Cheltenham is still a demilitarised zone , but if Mr Yves d'Ans wants his white masks from the first floor galleries back he should move quickly before the Iron Curtain descends . |
| 42 | There is still a feeling of langour about Crow Wood , lying in those fertile surroundings where cattle thrived on the rich pastureland . |
| 43 | WIDCOMBE IS still a village . |
| 44 | That is still a far cry from the several years of falling output that would be needed to justify the term ‘ depression ’ . |
| 45 | Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s . |
| 46 | So far , shorting is still a specialists ' game , but a growing one . |
| 47 | Singapore has had better luck than Hong Kong at diversifying its export markets ; but America is still a big one , and America is in recession . |
| 48 | That is a fair stretch , but it is still a finite length of time . |
| 49 | That is still a lot ; but , for a machine which cost more than $2 billion to build and launch , and which costs $250m a year to keep running , it is not enough . |
| 50 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 51 | That grand-sounding ‘ new world order ’ is still a phrase in search of a meaning . |
| 52 | That is still a lot less than the $2 billion of robot sales once forecast for 1990 . |
| 53 | There is still a way out of this economic mess , if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it . |
| 54 | Yet Iran is still a darkly repressive regime . |
| 55 | A black-owned film studio is still a distant dream , and the Hollywood studios have yet to experience their first black-directed box-office failure , which will test their willingness to entrust big budgets to black directors . |
| 56 | Marcos is still a powerful name in the Philippines . |
| 57 | There is no superior limit ; a term of 1,000 or 10,000 years ( such terms actually occur ) is still a leasehold . |
| 58 | Nor does a term cease to be a leasehold because it is determinable by an event which may happen , or which is certain to happen , within the term — e.g. if A holds land for 99 years or for 999 years , ‘ if he shall so long live ’ , he is still a leaseholder , though it is nearly or quite certain that he will not outlive the term . |
| 59 | They do , and it is still a quest worth becoming a question : ‘ Where is he ? ’ |
| 60 | Building a system to play their own stuff is still a priority . |