Example sentences of "[pron] are still a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are still a good looking woman Ma , ’ Yanto teased . |
| 2 | As Niki puts it , ‘ you can drive like a god , say nothing but nice things in Italian and always eat spaghetti , it does n't do the slightest good , you are still a swine … |
| 3 | ‘ If I ca n't find your father and talk to him , I must ask you , my dear child — you are still a child , appearances to the contrary — to come home with us of your own accord . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You are still a handsome minx , Cleo Sinister , I 'll say that for you . |
| 5 | ‘ You are still a child , ’ he pointed out scathingly . |
| 6 | Sorry if some of you are still a bit cold but I thought the heater had been turned on , but it does n't seem to be doing anything . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | We are still a long way from moving from ‘ the polluted pay ’ to ‘ the polluters pay ’ principle . |
| 9 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |
| 10 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 11 | ‘ Gottle a geer ’ Gazza would undoubtedly be a tremendous asset to the team , but after Silvers recent professions of poverty , I tend to agree with the Guardian that this is a ‘ We are still a big club ’ smokescreen . |
| 12 | Fortunately there are still a handful of splendid brews that are allowed to condition in the bottle . |
| 13 | And as not everyone can be a mould-breaker there are still a lot of traditional comedy shows on television . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It brings out the old policies of Enoch Powell way back and there are still a few Powellites in the Tory party . |
| 18 | Yet there are still a smattering of pop ironists trickling sporadically , lip-first into the fray . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | This was formerly the ceramic market and there are still a few potters ' stalls at the far end near Charles Bridge . |
| 23 | With eleven children leaving to go to ‘ big school ’ there are still a few places available for next term . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Despite all this crafty programming , there are still a few rough edges that need to be shaved off the system . |
| 30 | There are still a few , knowing they have no chance of winning , who enter just for ‘ fun ’ and the feeling of achievement which carrying fifty kilos of coal over an uphill 1,000 metre course can bring . |