Example sentences of "are still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these children are infected , but those who are not are still affected by HIV . |
| 2 | 1.04pm — Tony , and his Mum , are still getting ready to arrive . |
| 3 | As the doctors are still with Tony , I explain the position to the daughters and hand Mum over to them . |
| 4 | People are still injecting and sharing dirty equipment . |
| 5 | Every day , despite massive health campaigns , thousands of young people are still taking serious risks . |
| 6 | As in previous years the response to the ‘ prisoners of Conscience ’ programmes shown on the BBC in November/December 1990 has been tremendous and effective , and we are still answering 10 enquiries a week about prisoners . |
| 7 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 8 | But there are still prisoners of conscience in Europe , and in every other region of the world . |
| 9 | The four prisoners from China featured in the Letter Writing Campaign in 1989 and 1990 are still in prison . |
| 10 | Daniel , Panayiotis and Pavlos Xidis , three Jehovah 's Witnesses , are still serving four-year sentences in Greece for refusing to perform military service . |
| 11 | Tell the President that you have not forgotten about Wang Xizhe and other Pro-Democracy Movement activists who are still jail for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression . |
| 12 | ‘ Disappearances ’ occur daily in Sinhalese parts of the island and mutilated bodies are still found dumped along road sides . |
| 13 | In February 1991 , they were released , but are still subject to restrictions on freedom of movement and association . |
| 14 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |
| 15 | Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly . |
| 16 | There are still those who prefer to take their chances in the profession without any formal training . |
| 17 | On the other hand , Harold Pinter 's characters Mick and Aston from The Caretaker are familiar , and both of them are still young and exciting enough to make good choices . |
| 18 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 19 | Those who still seek compromise with catholic nationalists today are still known to the erudite leadership of the DUP as Lundies . |
| 20 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 21 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 22 | Fortunately there are still a handful of splendid brews that are allowed to condition in the bottle . |
| 23 | It is thus both puzzling and worrying that so many brewers are still apparently obsessed with eradicating the uniqueness of the individual historic pub , effectively destroying what has been a familiar and secure social centre in their attempts to ‘ improve ’ upon a successful , time-honoured formula . |
| 24 | However , to public and professionals alike many old buildings are still regarded as representing little more than four external walls . |
| 25 | Of those pubs which are listed — and there are still dismally few — such an attitude inevitably leads to a total disregard for those special qualities which distinguish the pub interior . |
| 26 | There are still some genuinely old pubs remaining , as yet untouched by crass modernisation , which appeal to our true instincts of heritage and our craving for some sense of permanence and continuity in a fast changing world . |
| 27 | Without sufficient protection , both the exteriors and interiors of historic pubs are still very much at risk . |
| 28 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 29 | Arguably brewers are still as constrained by the profit motive as ever before . |
| 30 | But companies are reporting that orders are still down on last year , with no sign from the catering industry that it is in a position to re-equip the dining room . |