Example sentences of "but [is] still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 2 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 3 | The company is expected to show encouraging profits in 1992 ( publishing should yield $ 330m , compared to $ 264m in 1991 ) , but is still burdened with a staggering $ 9bn debt as a legacy of the merger . |
| 4 | The Colombo government believes it has broken the back of the rebellion in the south by leftwing Sinhalese guerrillas , but is still faced with near anarchy in the Tamil north and east . |
| 5 | Which ? has been in the information business for 33 years , but is still hampered by lack of any freedom of information legislation comparable with that in the United States . |
| 6 | Non-emergency portasystemic shunt surgery is effective in preventing rebleeding but is still associated with high perioperative mortality in Child 's grade C patients and postoperative encephalopathy occurs in up to 40% of patients . |
| 7 | Boris Becker has withdrawn from the Australian hard-court tournament in Adelaide , the first event on the new ATP tour , but is still expected to play in the New South Wales Open starting in Sydney on January 8 . |
| 8 | The 25-year-old has failed to score in 14 appearances , but is still preferred to the £1.5m ex-Glasgow Rangers striker . |