Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er human testing and immunizations is still going gone in this are and I hope it wo n't ever stop . |
| 2 | These restrictions have been removed on the IBM 370 range , but operand alignment at appropriate addresses is still recommended for efficiency . |
| 3 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 4 | Over-capacity in some sectors is still driving down selling prices . |
| 5 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 6 | One of the author 's former clients is still awaiting certificates for American stocks he bought through the crashed Sheridan Securities over two years ago , a familiar story to clients of many licensed dealers ( and many clients deal through several ) . |
| 7 | The entire daily life of this city without cars is still sustained by its boats ; wherever I look , flotillas of' small craft are ploughing or plodding here and there , keeping the civic services going . |
| 8 | The state of the art in the study of professionals in schools is still represented by the work of Hoyle ( 1975 ) who suggested the notion of professionality as a way forward from the sterile debates of whether teaching is a profession in the ‘ checklist of characteristics ’ manner . |
| 9 | Although the results of last year 's Readathon have not yet been announced — the money collected by schools is still coming in — the numbers taking part in the sponsored read are as follows : well over 2,000 schools took part , involving some 17,000 classrooms and nearly 500,000 children , who read 1.25 million books . |
| 10 | According to the report " despite congressional efforts to redirect the programme , substantial public health concerns remain , and critical information on the distribution of exposure and health effects associated with hazardous-waste sites is still lacking . " |
| 11 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 12 | Nailsworth was one of the important centres of the trade , and one of the ancient wool town 's pubs is still called the Clothier 's Arms . |
| 13 | A specifically formulated general explanation which meets all these circumstances is still awaited . |
| 14 | Direct access to university libraries is still required for those theses deposited before the individual university began participating in the BLDSC microfilming scheme , and for the very small number of UK universities which do not take part in that scheme . |
| 15 | Uli 's still pushing his musical boundaries and he 's a continual source of inspiration for me . ’ |
| 16 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 17 | But in contemporary work , while each of the earlier positions is still held and practised , a new kind of convergence is becoming evident . |
| 18 | Ministers have agreed to set aside resources totalling £4m over the next three years to enable the Library to plan and execute fire safety and precaution works , though formal approval of the figures is still awaited . |
| 19 | For many housebuilders their day of reckoning in profit terms is still to come . ’ |
| 20 | Existing qualifications will have to be recognised for the time being , probably for some years , and APL , or accreditation of prior learning , is something the National Council for Vocational Qualifications is still exploring . |
| 21 | Despite the great advances in laser technology in recent years — including titanium-sapphire lasers and optical parametric oscillators — the continuous wavelength tuning range of most high power lasers is still restricted , especially in the far infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum ( 10–1000 ) . |
| 22 | Although the great ice sheets which covered much of North America and northern Europe in the recent past had largely disappeared by 10000 a BP , the landsurface in these regions is still rising rapidly in response to the removal of this load . |
| 23 | It is essential that the secretary of state for health states clearly whether NHS nursing care for long stay patients is still going to remain available or whether it will be privatised . |
| 24 | Today , one of the original air operations planning rooms is still preserved intact . |
| 25 | And yet , at the heart of the matter , a coherent explanation for the origin and scope of the early metazoan radiations is still missing . |
| 26 | EOS is still tussling with the fact that shrinking the board 's size reduces the number of memory banks it fits from eight to six . |
| 27 | EOS is still tussling with the fact that shrinking the board 's size cuts the number of memory banks it fits from eight to six . |
| 28 | This division of the contents of the universe into matter and forces is still used today . |
| 29 | And the sport of Kings is still pursued on the nearby downland at the famous Brighton Race Course . |
| 30 | Much of the music played by a pianist for ballet lessons is still borrowed from the dance suites of court , opera and other ballets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , as well as from other dance suites of Bach , Mozart , Beethoven and Brahms . |