Example sentences of "be still the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were still the case that affray required that the incident should take place in public , the case would be cast-iron . |
| 2 | If the observer is visibly present , even though not participating , there is still the likelihood that his presence is affecting what is happening ( Woods 1988 ) . |
| 3 | But the functionalist starting-point is still the idea that people are socialised strongly into conformity and that social phenomena can be explained in terms of the functions they perform . |
| 4 | The painfully sensitive narrator of The Better Angel grows up to be a farmer , not a novelist , but there is still the sense that he tells his tale as an act of compulsive , faintly therapeutic , honesty . |
| 5 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 6 | Despite criticisms voiced by the Post Office Engineering Union ( 1980 ) it is still the case that warrants are to be issued under the hand of the Home Secretary rather than a judge , there apparently being no concern that a major invasion of privacy can take place by executive act without the need for any judicial approval or authorization , as is required in other democracies . |
| 7 | While this is so , it is still the case that by no means all hospitals or doctors are yet educated in the pharmacological and other management of the terminally ill , and large numbers of patients outside hospices and centres of excellence may well , by virtue of their condition , continue to pose the problem of euthanasia . |
| 8 | It is still the case that the type of job affects the absentee behaviour . |
| 9 | It is still the case that the majority of girls do not see themselves as primarily workers or careerists . |
| 10 | It is still the case that social workers ' reliance on the legislature or the courts to solve the problems posed by the varying use of secure accommodation is ineffective in improving the allocation process . |
| 11 | But it is still the case that such countries have considerable difficulty in servicing their debts and the debt problem continues to be serious . |
| 12 | A woman may not be bound by her role as a housewife but it is still the case that in so far as any one person is left with the main responsibility for the housework , that person is the woman . |
| 13 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 14 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
| 15 | But it is still the case that through the reading of it in church a certain image of what it means to be male or female is conveyed . |
| 16 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 17 | It is still the case that the economy is determinant ‘ in the last instance ’ , but the economy never functions in isolation from the other instances . |
| 18 | Thus it is still the case that goods are of merchantable quality if they are suitable ( without substantial abatement of the price ) for one or more of the purposes for which goods of that description are normally bought . |
| 19 | The number of shepherds , stockmen , etc. is simply not known , but it is still the case that employed artisans made up a significant proportion of the urban male population . |
| 20 | It is still the case that the vast majority of potential clients who come through your door will do so because of a recommendation . |
| 21 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 22 | There is still the factor that the whole process is technology dependent . |
| 23 | If such a lizard is caught by the body , it is still the tail that snaps off , separating from its base independently of any external pressure . |
| 24 | But there is still the possibility that she came from the area north-east of the City . ’ |
| 25 | Although all the endoscopic examinations were performed by two endoscopists using the same criteria , there is still the possibility that observer bias was present . |
| 26 | In 1992 the Prime Minister , John Major , indicated that his government would release more information , but it is still the executive that decides what is and is not released . |
| 27 | In other words , there is still the feeling that Mrs Doyle and her team , in spite of a lingering recession , could succeed in turning things round . |
| 28 | That said , it 's still the graphics that impress the most : the colours are deeper and sharper than before , the action faster . |
| 29 | But it 's still the joiner that 's the undertaker . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , it 's still the case that you have to dress down to be taken seriously . |