Example sentences of "[noun sg] that is still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period , wild and woolly concepts of ‘ national grids ’ of leys were published and thick black pencil lines defaced countless maps — naive enthusiasm that is still held up for ridicule by ley sceptics . |
| 2 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today . |
| 3 | The stone floor is now mainly used for storage for the baking business that is still carried on there , although it is still home for a new and completely unused mill stone . |
| 4 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 5 | News of the Polish plan comes hot on the heels of the introduction of restrictions on currency convertability that threaten to wipe out the Slovakian market ; both developments underline the degree of risk that is still attached to operating in the region . |
| 6 | The article caused a rethink in microeconomics , a rethink that is still going on . |
| 7 | In 1983 , a five-year experiment with so-called ‘ Tempo 30 ’ zones began , so that by early 1988 there were already 5,000 zones in the country , a number that is still increasing . |
| 8 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 9 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 10 | Today it is one of the best automated factories in the world , with computer-controlled parts arriving at the right instant at each work station to churn out reliable personal computers ( ‘ PCs ’ ) for a market that is still growing . |
| 11 | Strangles is a nasty disease that is still seen too frequently . |
| 12 | Geothermal power ( heat from rocks ) is a technology that is still undergoing research in this country and which is seen by the Government as an energy longshot . |
| 13 | If you try to press petals from a rose that is still closed , the petals nearest the centre will be so tightly curled that they wo n't press into a good shape , and you will have wasted your rose . |