Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — The spirit of cheating reigns supreme amongst us ; — Honesty is still wanting amongst the indigenous businessmen ; — Most of our businessmen are not honest . |
| 2 | God is still wanting to continue filling his people , with his spirit . |
| 3 | I can hear a muffled distant television , Jancey is still chatting next door , and someone outside is calling goodnight . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , reliance is still placed on that golden oldie film Twelve Angry Men , which offers possible archetypes — Henry Fonda 's 9,9 hero being set against Lee J. Cobb 's 9.1 bully boy . |
| 5 | Hunting has some steady on-going business — such as highly classified nuclear work — and is still hoping to see new orders generated by the lessons learned in the Gulf war . |
| 6 | ONE of the candidates in last week 's Irish elections is still hoping to become a member of both the Irish and British parliaments . |
| 7 | Whereas if the consumer is still hoping to get credit from that source , he would anyway re-apply after having the information put right , so the correction would almost certainly reach the credit granter in the helpful context of an active proposal — under our existing law . |
| 8 | Looking ahead , the government is still hoping for continuing growth of 4% a year . |
| 9 | Apparently it is still hoping to do something with some of the software it has developed internally . |
| 10 | Paul Marland is still hoping to defuse the crisis . |
| 11 | She felt so strongly about the situation she removed Christopher , now 13 , from mainstream education and says she is still hoping to have his LEA provision reviewed . |
| 12 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 13 | The gunman is still believed to be at large , police have sealed off the area and are checking all cars . |
| 14 | Indian culture is still imagined as timeless , forever corresponding to a primitive stage of European history and art history ; but the Indian tradition was both amplified and transformed by contact with the pioneers . |
| 15 | Syria is still supplying guns to the Muslims , just as Iraq is supplying guns to the Christians . |
| 16 | Even if we allow the inductivists to separate the mode of discovery and the mode of justification , their position is still threatened by the fact that observation statements are theory-laden and hence fallible . |
| 17 | ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ . |
| 18 | MUD being transported away by lorries as part of a dredging scheme on the River Lagan is still spilling into the streets of the Lower Ormeau , the local residents ' group has claimed . |
| 19 | While commercial-property markets in America , Britain and Japan are in the doldrums , Germany 's is still booming . |
| 20 | Business is still booming today with chippies in Blackpool , Glasgow and Heathrow airport . |
| 21 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 22 | The field is a specialised one and the study of it is still producing refinements of previous discoveries . |
| 23 | If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk . |
| 24 | What use is the Staples Singers ' exhortation ‘ respect yourself ’ , if the notion of self-respect is still bound to conventional notions of respectability ? |
| 25 | While the numbers taught by their parents without any formal schooling is unknowable , there is still bound to be a close relationship between the availability and take-up of schooling and the literacy level . |
| 26 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 27 | John is still ranting . |
| 28 | however , the program control stack is still cleared when the error is detected and it is not possible to RETURN to the point where the error occurred . |
| 29 | The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks . |
| 30 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |