Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 2 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 3 | The Labour team , he added , would not be relaxing their efforts : ‘ Everything is still to play for but we are confident that we can win . ’ |
| 4 | The Labour team , he added , would not be relaxing their efforts : ‘ Everything is still to play for but we are confident that we can win . ’ |
| 5 | Because everything 's still growing ! |
| 6 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 7 | But , of course , that is precisely what one is still trying to find out — what the words are . |
| 8 | The stories of Sigurd and Wayland seem to have been particularly popular , and while , as R.N. Bailey has argued , such carvings could have been attempts to link pagan with Christian belief , one is still driven to the conclusion that they " may have appealed to tastes and interpretations which were based more on the traditions of Scandinavia than the Christian Fathers " . |
| 9 | One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention . |
| 10 | At Holyrood House in Edinburgh one is still shown the room where Rizzio was stabbed ‘ in her lap almost ’ . |
| 11 | They all have these days but no one 's still buying them |
| 12 | I 've got one testicle down here somewhere and the other one 's still embedded in bedroom . |
| 13 | Now what saying with that , that 'll be used again when he is actually walking and does n't need a pram and the other one 's still toddelling |
| 14 | But something is still needed to explain Nietzsche 's willingness to commit himself so totally at this particular time ; and the November meeting , usually taken to be the cause , can not by itself have been sufficient . |
| 15 | Everybody is still crying out for rain ; no one is ever satisfied . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Everybody was just completely shook , all the musicians , all the crew , and it 's been pretty much that way ever since — everybody 's still shook . |
| 17 | If anyone is still watching this flat , they 'll be doing it casually : drive by twice a day , walk along the balcony maybe , see if the milk has been taken . |
| 18 | Nearly everyone is still troubled by the memory of what happened , and all hope nothing like it happens again . |
| 19 | He probably thinks everyone is still having a good time out there somewhere in the fog . |