Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [is] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An option has been granted and is still outstanding to a director in respect of 5,000 ordinary shares of 25p each in A. Layout Plc exercisable at any time before 1st March 1992 , at a price of 50p per share . |
| 4 | From Mr Fothergills Seeds I 'd choose Penstemon ‘ Petit Bouquet ’ which does n't produce all the colours they list but is still very impressive , flowering in many shades of pink and blue . |
| 5 | The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on . |
| 6 | What he had felt for Kee had left ‘ a large deep wound which is healed but is still sensitive . ’ |
| 7 | " The changeable international situation , " he said , " has affected and is still affecting Xinjiang 's social stability . |
| 8 | The splitting and penetration of the bone of the skull was slightly more advanced than shown earlier , but the difference is not great enough to be worth illustrating and is still equivalent to stage 1 weathering ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | It survived and is still trading but Gilbey now works from his Norfolk home as marketing manager for Team Lotus . |
| 10 | The barrow was subsequently restored and is still to be found deep in the moors half a mile North East of the Hurlers . |
| 11 | It 's been restored and is still lived in . |
| 12 | The Price Is Right host Leslie , 59 , above , can hear but is still unable to speak following an operation to remove two blood clots from his brain after a road crash . |
| 13 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Abberley 's daughter has been abducted and is still missing . |
| 15 | Contrasted with the large-scale effects in some other areas , such as office work , warehousing and process control , the impact on R&D type activities has been slower to develop and is still a fairly new phenomenon other than in its basic role as an aid to designers . |
| 16 | The fact remains , however , that Freudianism ( psychoanalysis ) is still discussed and is still influential . |
| 17 | The slimming down of the Group continued and is still going on . |
| 18 | Their exclusive claim to punish clergymen for ordinary offences has long since disappeared ; the power to try and punish laymen for immorality has become practically obsolete ; their jurisdiction over the matters of ritual , and ecclesiastical offences of clergymen , such as heresy , still remains and is still exercised by them . |
| 19 | In addition the opposition to the belief that studies of Language , Linguistics-based , should be part of the pre-service of teachers , that opposition that was at the time principled , serious and rigorously expressed and is still unanswered . |
| 20 | Cerebral blood flow is better maintained but is still less than 30% of normal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He acknowledges that Donald is South Africa 's top bowler and major attraction but he believes that is still no excuse for bowling him too much . |
| 23 | The railway did come to Stamford in the end , but even then the influence of the Cecils remained and is still visible . |