Example sentences of "[conj] be still " in BNC.
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| 1 | A half own their own homes ( or are still buying them ) with the remainder renting mostly from local authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't mind if the girls have just left school , or are still in school , whether they live outside the town or whether they are married , ’ said the committee member . |
| 3 | And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo . |
| 4 | While a mere three per cent said budgets would increase a lot , the rest anticipate no change or are still unsure . |
| 5 | Most sub-Sahara African ethnic groups followed or are still observing the custom of a long , traditional post-partum abstinence of one or more years ( often until the suckling child is weaned , or can walk , talk , etc . ) . |
| 6 | There is an argument about whether 2 million homes have disappeared or are still there , occupied , thus contributing to the housing stock . |
| 7 | In 1712 the Goldsmiths , finding themselves responsible for yearly payments not only to the charities which they supported or were still required to pay for but also to the many hundreds of the Company 's annuities over the years 1695–1709 , resolved to mortgage their properties . |
| 8 | In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period . |
| 9 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
| 10 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 11 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 12 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 13 | In the same way , the country will add up how much has been paid or is still owed from overseas countries for goods exported to them . |
| 14 | Miocene/Pliocene trondhjemite , tonalite and ignimbrite comprise the final magmatic event ( 5Myr ) in the central Andes of Peru ; we consider that they were produced by partial melting of lower crust that had recently been , or was still being , thickened by magma underplating . |
| 15 | The local authority , on the other hand , say that ‘ the care given to the child ’ in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) means the care given by the mother to the child in this case and that , in any event , it is not clear that the child would go to the grandmother 's if a care order was not made , because the mother is still claiming , or was still claiming , that the care should be given to her . |
| 16 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 17 | Plants like pansies will flower for longer , but even those that flower for a long time anyway , like African and French marigolds , will look neater and tidier if dead-headed , and the dead flowers will not detract from flowers that are still blooming . |
| 18 | Look at the stuff he 's holding on to : he is n't selling any of his great Minimal works , his Carl Andres or Donald Judds , but those are works that are still climbing in value . ’ |
| 19 | Look at all these blasphemous bastards that are still walking around this orchard . ’ |
| 20 | The directive , which follows a similar directive on non-life insurance published in draft a few months ago , is the last big element in its push to open financial markets that are still highly protected . |
| 21 | One is that high interest rates have raised financial burdens directly for weaker firms that are still net debtors . |
| 22 | Crédit Lyonnais , one of the two big banks that are still state-owned , isolated all its long-term holdings of shares in a new firm , Clinvest , and began to add to them . |
| 23 | He also worked with the Cardinal Archbishop of New York , John O'Connor , in ways that are still not known ; his notebooks are full of calls to and from the archbishop 's office . |
| 24 | But the climate changed about 65 million years ago ( perhaps exacerbated by a bombardment of meteors ) and the dinosaurs , for reasons that are still unexplained , were unable to cope with the shift . |
| 25 | The interior of the villa is largely taken over by the Modern Art Museum which is spread through 35 rooms that are still marvels of late eighteenth-century elegance , with luxurious decoration in plaster , parquet floors and chandeliers . |
| 26 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 27 | As one of the pioneers of dyestuff manufacturing , Edward Chambers Nicholson established some chemical techniques that are still useful today . |
| 28 | For the most part , with the exception of South Africa , these are relatively poor states , with economies that are still largely tied to the export of primary commodities and are particularly vulnerable to external economic pressures and fluctuations in the world economy . |
| 29 | Characteristics of the patient when well that are still present when ill are not actually a part of the picture of the acute illness and are therefore not important when selecting a remedy for the acute disease . |
| 30 | The egg belongs to one of five known Californian condors that are still mating in the wild . |