Example sentences of "are still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any bankruptcy proceedings commenced before 29 December 1986 are still governed by the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as amended and the Bankruptcy Rules 1952 as amended . |
| 2 | These people [ the Brazilian Indians ] are wild [ sauvage ] in the same way as we say that fruits are wild , when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way … they are still very close to their original simplicity … they are still governed by natural laws and very little corrupted by our own " .1 |
| 3 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 4 | In the meantime , if you are still determined to keep me here , could we try not to fight ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The city fathers are still determined to have battlements and arrow slits on the rail bridge , ’ Stephenson said . |
| 6 | First , concepts of quality in health care are still determined largely by the professionals , with managers staking out an increasing role . |
| 7 | Although many prerogative powers have been displaced by statute , many matters at the heart of government are still determined under the authority of the prerogative . |
| 8 | Now if Mr is saying that outside the context of the structure plan entirely which is all I took him to be saying , that the members of North Yorkshire County Council are still determined to build a road to the north of of erm |
| 9 | THE future of the Maastricht Treaty may be in doubt but a group of Clwyd schoolchildren are still determined to forge closer links with Europe . |
| 10 | The Hunt Balls are still recalled today with something akin to awe in the villages of Lartington and Cotherstone where several former servants of the Fields live in retirement . |
| 11 | The names of these directors of change in your country alone are still recalled , novelists who seized on the great scientifico-social changes of their day and moulded a more sensitive appreciation of life to respond to it : Disraeli , Mrs Gaskell , the Brontë sisters , Charles Reade , George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , George Eliot , your friend Peacock , many others . |
| 12 | Its universities are still favoured by the more academic and old-fashioned . |
| 13 | Even under normal circumstances , however , people throughout the world are still exposed to a variety of environmental hazards which jeopardise their safety , health , happiness and , indeed , survival . |
| 14 | The bones are still exposed at the time of writing this ( November , 1988 ) and they should provide additional data as time progresses . |
| 15 | Today local people are still exposed to increasingly lethal quantities of pollution . |
| 16 | Offices are still heated only half the day . |
| 17 | Though the much trumpeted ivory ban has blunted the immediate threat , they are still menaced by poaching , as well as by human population pressure and loss of habitat , across much of the continent . |
| 18 | As a result , many are still burdened by this attempted avoidance , not evasion , of tax . |
| 19 | Because of the nature of their following , they are still categorised as an ‘ alternative ’ outfit . |
| 20 | The toes are still polished , the sides and heels dull and slightly smeared . |
| 21 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 22 | This is why the same physical types and personalities are still represented amongst the students of professional schools . |
| 23 | But in most states defendants are still represented by state lawyers . |
| 24 | The court must be satisfied that the statutory criteria are still met when making a second or subsequent interim order . |
| 25 | They were seventy two feet long , built of carvel construction in wood and were powered with Gardner engines , which are still acknowledged as being one of the best and most reliable of diesels . |
| 26 | The ideas are so well accepted now that , whilst the intellectual debts owed to Hess , and to Vine & Matthews , are still acknowledged in passing in modern geological textbooks , their crucial early papers on the subject are seldom specifically cited . |
| 27 | Perhaps some of us here tonight are still gripped by fear of death . |
| 28 | Whatever the facts may be the Crabb affair , even after more than 30 years , remains intensely embarrassing and many important documents relating to the incident are still withheld from public scrutiny . |
| 29 | Buzzards are still persecuted by game preservers in some parts of the county , birds being found twice on gamekeepers ' gibbets in 1971 , for example . |
| 30 | Many have been killed in the political struggles of South America and in the missionary work in Africa , and many are still persecuted in many communist countries . |