Example sentences of "[pron] is still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No discussion of tribunals can ignore the impact of the Report of the Franks Committee , which is still viewed as laying down the ground rules for the operation of tribunals . |
| 2 | In solid waste , 75% of which is still handled by local municipalities , two giants lead the private sector , Waste Management and Browning-Ferris . |
| 3 | The rise in recorded offences in many parts of the Western world in the first half of the nineteenth century played an important role in the original formulation of this belief , which is still accepted by many scholars . |
| 4 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 5 | At that time , John , Baron Russell , the first Earl of Bedford , who was an advisor to King Henry VIII — also executor — lived in a mansion house called ‘ Corney House ’ which was situated along that part of the river frontage at Chiswick which is still referred to as ‘ Corney Reach ’ , although the house itself was demolished in 1532 . |
| 6 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 7 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 8 | Close to the mill is a large and attractive half-timbered mill house , which is still inhabited , as well as a substantial dove cote , dated 1741 , which stands taller than the mill itself . |
| 9 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | Bothwell carried Mary off again , this time to Borthwick castle , a dark tower house in Midlothian south of Edinburgh which is still inhabited today . |
| 11 | In the Wheldrake Ings account book for 1868–1934 , it is specified that the meadows be mown on the dates appointed by the Ings masters , and that thereafter a carefully controlled number of cattle , branded with a W , may be pastured until the autumn , when they are taken off on ‘ Ings Breaking Day ’ , a custom which is still observed . |
| 12 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 13 | The exception had become the rule ; nearly half the counties had lost their largest urban centres ; the division between rural and urban local government had hardened in a form which caused controversy for nearly a century , and which is still reflected in the current structure ( Hampton 1966:464 — 5 ) . |
| 14 | They brought with them a number of French country traditions , such as the boucherie ( preserving hogs by a process of salting and smoking ) , a tradition which is still continued today . |
| 15 | And the ones that are below target funnily enough , are productivity , which is still measured , and I do n't agree with that . |
| 16 | The charge of indoctrination has been regularly levelled against it with great force , especially because of the holding of assemblies for worship which is still required by law . |
| 17 | We 've also got the Police and Fire service as well and water and drainage which is still provided by local authorities . |
| 18 | So far OPEC has put aside the even more complex task of making market adjustments to accommodate a return of output from Iraq , thought to have twice the production capacity of Kuwait , which is still banned from international oil sales under a United Nations embargo . |
| 19 | Slow growth in the economy and in employment opportunities is also putting pressure on the credibility of the examination system , which is still modelled on the old British ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ level system . |
| 20 | The Macintosh Application Services software previewed at the IBM PowerOpen launch last week ( CI No 2,123 ) is an indication of the growing popularity of binary-to-binary conversion techniques over straightforward emulation , which is still associated with poor performance . |
| 21 | The Macintosh Application Services software previewed at the IBM PowerOpen launch last week ( see page 1 ) is an indication of the growing popularity of binary to binary conversion techniques over straightforward emulation , which is still associated with poor performance . |
| 22 | By the early thirteenth century the material becomes more relevant : ‘ Johannes de Erleia positus est loco Asciline matris sue optulit see iiij die versus Robertum de Juvenni de placito medietis tocius terre quam Robertus tenet de terra que fuit Radulfi de Insula … ‘ is a typical entry in a roll , and includes at least one name which is still found today — Erleigh ( Erlé ) — in the area to which the roll refers ; the name probably means ‘ eagle wood ’ . |
| 23 | An important paper was read for her in 1900 to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by her cousin , Gerard Baldwin Brown [ q.v. ] , and thereafter controversial articles in learned journals culminated in 1912 in the publication by John Murray of The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles , which is still considered a seminal work on the subject . |
| 24 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 25 | Below are the views expressed by the late to all his students at the beginning of an embalming course and believes the advice given , which is still passed on to 's own students , is still relevant today : |
| 26 | It is now in Glen House , Innerleithen , Peeblesshire , which is still owned by Lord Glenconner but operated by a private company as a conference centre . |
| 27 | For example , in Dundee the Tayside Public Transport Company , which is still owned by the regional council , has been forced , under the provisions of the 1985 Act , to alter some of the services and make them commercial . |
| 28 | Matthew Boulton lived close to his works at Soho ; but his son bought the estate and country house of Great Tew in Oxfordshire and went to and fro by the coach which is still preserved in the stables there . |
| 29 | This code , which is still adhered to , specifies that roofs must be made of slate , all woodwork must be white , and walls must be built in local stone or rendered white ; it also specifies that houses must be a certain distance apart . |
| 30 | In the south they were either pagan or more probably belonged to that archaic South Arabian form of Judaism which is still held by the Falashas . |