Example sentences of "be still [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 3 | They 're still coming to terms with it . |
| 4 | We 're still talking to each other . |
| 5 | So we , we , we 're still working to middle peasants being able to earn twenty five or thirty percent of their income from exploitation , either hired labour or renting out land and we wo n't touch it at all . |
| 6 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 7 | And even if you 're not contemplating any of those things , as I 've said you 're still going to be faced with decisions about goods that you want to buy and services that you want to buy for your home . |
| 8 | the Tories are gon na introduce their alternative , but they 're still going to through this banding system , the whole objective of that is to , is to make sure that the better off people do n't pay their full whack |
| 9 | What , you 're still going to are you ? |
| 10 | UNIVERSITY students are still sticking to a boozing , sexy lifestyle despite the recession . |
| 11 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |
| 12 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 13 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 14 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |
| 15 | ‘ Richard Arnold , the Blackbury-based chairman of the Arnco Group , said in Florida today ’ , ’ she said , ‘ ‘ that scientists are still trying to r … r … regain control of Arnsat 1 , the multi-million pound com … communications sat … ellite — ’ ’ |
| 16 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 17 | Making records is a lot of fun , too , because you know that you have it there forever , and after you 're dead , hopefully , people are still listening to it . |
| 18 | The British imitators are still whispering to a city that 's still in bed . |
| 19 | These already have property assets worth some DM15 billion ( $10 billion ) , and are still adding to them . |
| 20 | The Rugby League are still talking to sponsors and an announcement is expected on Thursday . |
| 21 | And consumer problems and consumer decisions are certainly not going to go away in retirement because we 're all , including myself who retired at the March , are still going to be faced with consumer decisions . |
| 22 | to find time to do your work because your exams are still going to be on the same day are n't they ? |
| 23 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 24 | Woking , who knocked out West Brom two seasons ago , are still coming to terms with their first season in the Conference , but their Cup-fighting instincts are sure to resurface for their trip to Brighton . |
| 25 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 26 | Staff are still coming to terms with the decision to close the main part of the Junction factory within two years , making 100 workers redundant . |
| 27 | Mould this lot of nonsense down , because me as a boilermaker had to live forty four years and there ai n't enough people are still working to be able to run the sections . |
| 28 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 29 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 30 | The mechanisms behind these interactions are still waiting to be unravelled , but there are indications that small messenger molecules may be important . |