Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [is] still [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If you 're comparing us with primary and secondary schools we have to remember that the erm the great erm age bulge pass has passed through the primary schools and is passing through the secondary schools and is still to reach higher education .
2 The girl has recovered from her wounds but is still taking tablets to sleep at night .
3 It sold 100,000 copies and is still selling , 1,400 last week . ’
4 The court heard the girl has made several suicide attempts and is still receiving treatment .
5 My father Arthur was secretary of the Southern Division for a number of years and is still enjoying life to the full .
6 This has survived for well over two hundred years and is still going strong as an efficient method of information-retrieval .
7 The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up .
8 Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap .
9 As far as the Channel Tunnel is concerned it has reluctantly accepted the need for on-train immigration checks but is still insisting that customs checks must be carried out at the terminals , against the advice of commercial interests who see such checks as detrimental to the ‘ user friendliness ’ of the Tunnel .
10 It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . )
11 The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions .
12 Here , there 's another parador contrived from a 16th century building — the Hostal de Reyes Catolicas , which was built by Ferdinand and Isabella as an inn for pilgrims and is still fulfilling its original purpose .
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