Example sentences of "are still a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately there are still a handful of splendid brews that are allowed to condition in the bottle . |
| 2 | Is it to set the general atmosphere and mood as Stravinsky did for The Firebird Mysterious sounds of the wind whispering in the trees , the soaring flight of a bird and the heavy tread of an unseen foot are still a wonderful introduction to this magic tale . |
| 3 | And as not everyone can be a mould-breaker there are still a lot of traditional comedy shows on television . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Young people 's bodies are still a saleable commodity in Britain in the 1980s , ’ the study concludes . |
| 5 | There are still a few speeches in Greenaway 's house-style of inert paradox and cod worldliness — notably a digression by the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) about black food and the price structure of restaurant meals — but the story , for better or worse , stands relatively clear of verbiage . |
| 6 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 7 | The Polgars are still a united and , in a quite humane way , isolated family . |
| 8 | We have yet to experience any hard frosts , so autumn leaves still cling to branches and there are still a few flowers of white dead nettle , red campion and yarrow to attract the last of the drone flies . |
| 9 | It brings out the old policies of Enoch Powell way back and there are still a few Powellites in the Tory party . |
| 10 | Yet there are still a smattering of pop ironists trickling sporadically , lip-first into the fray . |
| 11 | Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics . |
| 12 | For company cars are still a bargain . |
| 13 | Peptic ulcers are still a major medical problem and require new drugs , particularly non-toxic drugs with a prophylactic effect , to prevent ulcer reoccurrence . |
| 14 | There are still a number of old millstones on the site , one of which is a French burr stone boasting ‘ Gloucester Millstone Manufactory ’ cast onto its balance boxes , as well as a well-worn monolithic stone probably used to grind animal feed . |
| 15 | Although many of the gears are of iron construction there are still a number with wooden teeth , this leading to quieter running , as well as making repairs easier . |
| 16 | I 'm glad to say that tickets for the rock and roll evening are going well although there are still a few left for late bookers |
| 17 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 18 | This was formerly the ceramic market and there are still a few potters ' stalls at the far end near Charles Bridge . |
| 19 | With eleven children leaving to go to ‘ big school ’ there are still a few places available for next term . |
| 20 | Secondly , its appearance is less attractive than an unbound book , which carries the original dust jacket intact ( though there are still a handful of traditionalists or binding fetishists who prefer the appearance of a library binding to a laminated dust jacket ) . |
| 21 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |
| 22 | If it is still more important to you to enjoy your fishing , using methods and approaches more akin to your liking , than it is to catch big fish at the cost of a great deal of enjoyment , then there are still a few waters where you can use ‘ classic ’ tactics . |
| 23 | Although there are still a number of problems to be solved , in contrast to the difficulties of comparing data reported for different spatial units , these aspects of data integration are fairly well developed and understood . |
| 24 | High death tolls are still a characteristic of less developed , low-income countries . |
| 25 | But even if you are convinced that David wrote the Psalms and Moses write the Pentateuch there are still a lot of other books in the Old Testament . |
| 26 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 27 | The relationships between the Variscides of Europe and the Appalachians of North America — and indeed between parts of the Appalachian province itself — are still a subject for controversy at a detailed level ( see Dewey 1982 ; Rast 1984 ; also several papers in Hutton and Sanderson 1984 ) , but it seems that useful , if cautious , parallels can be drawn between the partly concealed Variscides of Europe ( including southern England ) and the well exposed and much studied southern Appalachians ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ You are still a good looking woman Ma , ’ Yanto teased . |
| 29 | At present doctors must prove at regular intervals that such patients are still a danger to society . |
| 30 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |