Example sentences of "[is] still [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God is still wanting to continue filling his people , with his spirit . |
| 2 | Hunting has some steady on-going business — such as highly classified nuclear work — and is still hoping to see new orders generated by the lessons learned in the Gulf war . |
| 3 | Apparently it is still hoping to do something with some of the software it has developed internally . |
| 4 | ONE of the candidates in last week 's Irish elections is still hoping to become a member of both the Irish and British parliaments . |
| 5 | Whereas if the consumer is still hoping to get credit from that source , he would anyway re-apply after having the information put right , so the correction would almost certainly reach the credit granter in the helpful context of an active proposal — under our existing law . |
| 6 | She felt so strongly about the situation she removed Christopher , now 13 , from mainstream education and says she is still hoping to have his LEA provision reviewed . |
| 7 | Paul Marland is still hoping to defuse the crisis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To get away from the metropolitan elitism that The Late Show is still trying to live down , Artrageous ! kicks off tonight with a location report from Bradford on sculpture . |
| 10 | More likely , China is still trying to reconcile the irreconcilable : Marxism with a market economy , central control with the reality of powerful politicians in the provinces . |
| 11 | He is still trying to arrange a concert for it in London . ’ |
| 12 | Parapsychology is still trying to answer questions it first began to ask seriously a century ago . |
| 13 | ‘ So it 's ironic that as enterprise and liberty rise from the dead ashes of state control , the Labour Party here is still trying to blow life into those old embers . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As enterprise and liberty arise from the dead ashes of state control , ’ she said , ‘ the Labour Party here is still trying to blow life into those old embers . ’ |
| 15 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 16 | DEC , which will soon announce R4000 upgrades to all of its R3000-based platforms — existing users will be offered board swaps — is still trying to put a brave face on the ACE debacle , saying the ACE Hardware Abstraction Layer in Microsoft Corp NT will allow ACE applications to run on its Alpha RISC platforms . |
| 17 | In a fully developed , fragmented and competitive industry no company can hope to succeed at everything , as IBM ( and only IBM ) is still trying to do . |
| 18 | The club 's record signing is still trying to recover from a stomach muscle injury and coach Fox said yesterday : ‘ He trained on Thursday night but he is not ready yet . ’ |
| 19 | Although it is over a year since the end of the Gulf War , the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information is still trying to recover various ancient treasures dating back to the prehistoric and Islamic periods which disappeared from museums in the north and the south of the country . |
| 20 | Yet the Soviet Union is still trying to define Hungary 's security interests by insisting that it must stay neutral , or something close to that , for the treaty 's 20-year life . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the company is still trying to slim down its chubby baby NT , trying to get the client side to run in 12Mb RAM and the server in 16Mb on the theory that the typical user will have 4Mb more than the minimum . |
| 22 | He is still trying to sail the same course but the boat is just sliding sideways across the water . |
| 23 | Phil is an ardent Stoke City supporter and season ticket holder and colleagues joked me may need to ‘ get away from it all ’ as he is still trying to shrug off his team 's F.A . |
| 24 | He is still trying to shrug off a throat and chest virus , but seems certain to start the game with Wednesday , 3-1 down from the first leg , struggling for striking cover . |
| 25 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 26 | Ockrent is still trying to tone down his screen actors — ‘ remember there 'll be twenty feet of grimace up there ’ — but he retains the keenness of a novice : ‘ You get the excitement of a first night every ten minutes . ’ |
| 27 | as if that were not enough , the Department of Trade and Industry is still trying to have him disqualified as a company director for his role in the collapse of Homes Assured — a move which forced his resignation from the chairmanship of Lonrho in 1991 . |
| 28 | Peru is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president , Alan Garcia . |
| 29 | It ensured that the Delaware law was partly scrapped in November 1991 , and is still trying to reduce the banks ' remaining powers , particularly in reinsurance . |
| 30 | He says he set out last night and is still trying to get from Bristol to Bracknell . |