Example sentences of "that [is] still [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangles is a nasty disease that is still seen too frequently . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seems very probable ( although not yet experimentally demonstrated ) that pH levels in a hungry owl will be lower than in one that is still digesting its previous meal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 7 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 8 | The article caused a rethink in microeconomics , a rethink that is still going on . |
| 9 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 10 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yes , I 'm not , I 'm not sure that 's still happens , does it ? |
| 18 | I ca n't see that that could of been Friday 's episode that 's still effecting you today . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 20 | Joseph Stepper 's ‘ Wife ’ is one of the maddest ragga records ever made , as raw as a dinner that 's still walking around . |
| 21 | I 've got a fuchsia that 's still growing . |
| 22 | But as such just because you 're hiring people that 's still going to be , in Marxist terms , seen as exploitation . |
| 23 | The only muscle in your body that 's still working is your heart . |