Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | somewhere in Mexico , the central part of it where it 's still falling to bits and |
| 2 | In Spain , Housman Overseas is no longer active in the Costa del Sol , although it is still dealing with the Costa Blanca . |
| 3 | World travel market attended , the club promotion , although it 's still running , has n't been very successful , over four hundred bed nights into the campaign , as a result of that short running promotion . |
| 4 | The Labour party 's amendment shows that it is still wedded to clause 4 and to renationalisation , despite the fact that the leader of the Labour party said recently : ’ We must learn to run capitalism better than the Conservatives . ’ |
| 5 | It happened so long ago that it seems incredible that it is still affecting her . |
| 6 | Also , company 1 , by focusing on decreasing margins through time , rather than the fact that it is still earning better margins than a rival , may be ‘ bearish ’ and let company 2 get established in the market too easily . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The disparity of provision partly reflects the lack of understanding by teachers of the purpose of a school library , and ways in which it should be used in the curriculum , so that it is still regarded as a peripheral concern , a room open for pupils in the lunch hour and for English lessons for children to borrow books . |
| 9 | HAVING vague recollection from reading accounts of English milords on the Grand Tour in the 18th century that there was a nourishing fake industry around the Mediterranean , I was intrigued to learn from Oxford 's Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art that it is still going . |
| 10 | And it is disappointing to see that it is still going . |
| 11 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 12 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 13 | Bid array also has an odd local cult , or did have , for I am not sure that it is still practised , in the worship of a headless and anonymous saint in a cave nearby . |
| 14 | He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money . |
| 15 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 16 | Analysts reckon AT&T has invested $2 billion in its computer division since its birth , and that it is still losing $200m a year . |
| 17 | It is clear that it is still campaigning to have licensed growth promotions reinstated for beef cattle . |
| 18 | ‘ So it 's still hanging over us . ’ |
| 19 | So if you multiply it by six and it 's still raised to the power . |
| 20 | Er obviously the erm better for overseas visitors pound will help tourism in this country , particularly in London erm the Chairman says Madame Tussauds in fact gets about sixty percent visitors over from overseas , Rock Circus at the moment is about fifty percent and it 's still rising , which partially explains why it had a very good year last year . |
| 21 | Because that 's the old term that 's been used for however many years , and it 's still used by industry . |
| 22 | I know , but it 's switched and it 's still working ? |
| 23 | ‘ And it 's still falling apart . |
| 24 | And then you 'd have fifty hundredths and it 's still look like a half . |
| 25 | I can remember that so vividly and it 's still going today so that 's saying something for British Steel erm it was local , you know the erm the one at er |
| 26 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 27 | Bloody hell , and it 's still going . |
| 28 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 29 | ‘ I went to read his Vico and it 's still crammed with his manuscript notes , bursting with them , between every page . |
| 30 | Race officials decided not to award McLeod-Wright the second cup , The Journal Trophy , outright after his sixth win and it is still presented to the winner at Newcastle 's Civic Centre each year . |