Example sentences of "[is] still that " in BNC.

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1 The situation at present is still that any operation performed by a surgeon is , prima facie , a battery rendered lawful by the consent of the patient .
2 The problem is still that the location of beginnings and ends of words are never certain .
3 At Leeds , for example , the grid of streets between the present railway station and the significantly named The Headrow , though now much mutilated by modern development , is still that laid out by Maurice de Paynel in the early thirteenth century .
4 The most complete atlas of mechanical properties of polymers is still that by McCrum , Read & Williams ( 1967 ) .
5 It would seem that the consensus of legal opinion , at least in Britain , is still that the position has not yet been reached where the British Parliament would be constitutionally prohibited from severing or amending Britain 's commitment to the Treaty of Rome — though that position is now perilously close .
6 Can I just ask you if your position on the Daily Mirror is still that you 're not at all interested in it , or is there a prospect that you may change your mind when you 've seen the figures from the Mirror ?
7 I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities .
8 After the Glasgow meeting , Mr Wallace said of the Convention 's prospects : ‘ My view is still that when this group tries to examine what is a realistic possibility , realistically we will not be able to embark on any major schemes . ’
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