Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you multiply it by six and it 's still raised to the power . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because that 's the old term that 's been used for however many years , and it 's still used by industry . |
| 4 | I know , but it 's switched and it 's still working ? |
| 5 | ‘ And it 's still falling apart . |
| 6 | And then you 'd have fifty hundredths and it 's still look like a half . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 9 | Bloody hell , and it 's still going . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I went to read his Vico and it 's still crammed with his manuscript notes , bursting with them , between every page . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Final configuration and pricing has yet to be finalised , the firm says , and it is still casting around for a name , although Series 200 has been mooted . |
| 14 | ‘ We have come to the end of that chapter , they have spent the money , sold off the assets , squeezed the public services , cut the training , tossed everything they possibly can out of the boat , and it is still sinking . |
| 15 | Today it has risen by more than twenty years , to 72 for men and 77 for women , and it is still rising . |
| 16 | By the late 80s , this figure had spiralled to more than 50% of all marriages — and it is still rising . |
| 17 | From this same quarry the longest bridge in Cornwall was built across the Camel at Wadebridge in 1485 , and it is still going strong . |
| 18 | But there has been endless comment by members of the Labour Party leadership as well as others about the outcome of the election and it is still going on . |
| 19 | It appears as the instrumental introduction ( and two instrumental interludes ) , it comes four times in each of the two choruses , and it is still going when the song fades out . |
| 20 | Fish is very popular and it is still preserved and smoked by traditional methods . |
| 21 | That little Chinese painting in its neat black and gold frame and with Seto More 's inscription and ‘ chop ’ on the back has hung on our walls in many parts of the world ever since and it is still admired here in England . |
| 22 | Stepping has always been a feature of this particular village and it is still practised to a certain extent today . |
| 23 | A decade later and it is still tackling the controversial issues and delighting its loyal audience . |
| 24 | And it is still considered the most terrifying experience of many people 's lives . |
| 25 | A few plants are associated with historical lore such as the pink convolvulus or sea bindweed ( Calystegia soldanella ) , which is called ‘ the Prince 's flower ’ , because it was said to have been originally sown by Prince Charles in 1745 when he landed in Eriskay , and it is still growing on that island . |
| 26 | The Newport bridge was built in 1906 , the second of the British transporter bridges , and it is still used . |
| 27 | Wassailing was originally probably a Roman fertility rite to praise and encourage Pomona , the goddess of fruit trees , and it is still carried out in parts of the UK on Twelfth Night to ensure a good crop of apples the following year . |
| 28 | It made the ground and it is still making the sky . |
| 29 | By the end of Lanfranc 's life the number is given by a later domestic chronicler as a hundred , and it was still rising . |
| 30 | I flew into the monastery by helicopter just a couple of days after the fire and it was still smouldering . |