Example sentences of "[conj] is still [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period .
2 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 .
3 Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses !
4 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 .
5 Strangles is a nasty disease that is still seen too frequently .
6 Geothermal power ( heat from rocks ) is a technology that is still undergoing research in this country and which is seen by the Government as an energy longshot .
7 It seems very probable ( although not yet experimentally demonstrated ) that pH levels in a hungry owl will be lower than in one that is still digesting its previous meal .
8 The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone .
9 Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned .
10 The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself .
11 The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] .
12 The article caused a rethink in microeconomics , a rethink that is still going on .
13 Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict .
14 Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country .
15 In 1983 , a five-year experiment with so-called ‘ Tempo 30 ’ zones began , so that by early 1988 there were already 5,000 zones in the country , a number that is still increasing .
16 What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today .
17 If you try to press petals from a rose that is still closed , the petals nearest the centre will be so tightly curled that they wo n't press into a good shape , and you will have wasted your rose .
18 Today it is one of the best automated factories in the world , with computer-controlled parts arriving at the right instant at each work station to churn out reliable personal computers ( ‘ PCs ’ ) for a market that is still growing .
19 News of the Polish plan comes hot on the heels of the introduction of restrictions on currency convertability that threaten to wipe out the Slovakian market ; both developments underline the degree of risk that is still attached to operating in the region .
20 During this period , wild and woolly concepts of ‘ national grids ’ of leys were published and thick black pencil lines defaced countless maps — naive enthusiasm that is still held up for ridicule by ley sceptics .
21 I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets .
22 One of these entered the popular literature and is still repeated by journalists , despite the fact that Hugh McClean , who , in admitting his part in the Shankill UVF killings , is supposed to have said : ‘ I am terribly sorry I ever heard of that man Paisley or decided to follow him ’ , later denied making such a statement to the police .
23 There are numerous varieties of mustards from around the world , although Dijon in France is acknowledged as the mecca of the trade and is still said to produce almost 50 per cent of the world 's mustard .
24 Dill-water or gripe-water is , at any rate , several hundred years old in usage , and is still called upon today .
25 Aside from the money spent before this season ( ie Shearer et al ) he has spent 3M on warhurst , 2.75 on batts , and is still looking to get flowers 2M+ That s over 7M spent , and who has left ?
26 Aside from the money spent before this season ( ie Shearer et al ) he has spent 3M on warhurst , 2.75 on batts , and is still looking to get flowers 2M+ That s over 7M spent , and who has left ?
27 On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while .
28 Australia drifted up and into it ( and is still drifting northwards , at an infinitesimal rate ) ; but very little else .
29 The court heard the girl has made several suicide attempts and is still receiving treatment .
30 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 .
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