Example sentences of "it is still [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that the state system of education is over 100 years old , it is still regarded as a fundamental duty of parenthood to educate one 's child . |
| 2 | The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country . |
| 3 | It is still regarded as a preconceived construct which incorporates goals for learning , and its relationship with a methodology which activates the immediate process of learning remains as undefined as before . |
| 4 | The disparity of provision partly reflects the lack of understanding by teachers of the purpose of a school library , and ways in which it should be used in the curriculum , so that it is still regarded as a peripheral concern , a room open for pupils in the lunch hour and for English lessons for children to borrow books . |
| 5 | However , it is still regarded by many members as the highlight of the season . |
| 6 | It is still grown on the Continent and is said to contain more protein . |
| 7 | It is still made in village dairies throughout South Western Switzerland by local cheese-makers who take pride in achieving the unique , smooth rich creamy taste , with a distinctive briny-dry sharpness . |
| 8 | Measures underway to effect this are ; increased substitution of gas for oil in industrial complexes and combined heat and power ( CHP ) schemes , but it is still reckoned that the USSR is a million miles behind the West in terms of energy efficiency . |
| 9 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |
| 10 | But Darwin conceived that natural selection applied to individuals , or possibly to species , and that is how it is still understood . |
| 11 | It is still assumed that it is the woman who will give up work to look after the children or take time off if they are sick , she admits . |
| 12 | It is still mounted on LMSR six wheeled bogies with plain bearings . |
| 13 | In some organizations it is still seen as the junior partner to sales , in others it has an equal status , in yet others it has a superior status . |
| 14 | The Labour party 's amendment shows that it is still wedded to clause 4 and to renationalisation , despite the fact that the leader of the Labour party said recently : ’ We must learn to run capitalism better than the Conservatives . ’ |
| 15 | But the total flux should not be affected because it is still related to the applied voltage by eqn ( 4.66 ) . |
| 16 | He also suggests why , nonetheless , it is still perceived as a serious betrayal of the marriage . |
| 17 | After twenty-five years we can indeed see much response to Dei Verbum , but it is still limited . |
| 18 | It is still lived in by the direct descendant of Sir John Damer , who was perhaps so appalled by the building programme of his brother , Viscount Milton , first Earl of Dorchester , at Milton Abbas , that he vowed to build a small house for himself . |
| 19 | It is still lived in , though not any more by humans , because the castle and its grounds have been turned into a home , and a sort of theatre , for birds of prey : vultures , falcons , buzzards , eagles , which in the afternoons ( I 'm not sure why it has to be only after lunch ) are allowed to fly free and which you can pay to visit . |
| 20 | It is still referred to as a tournament rather than a championship , which reflects a kind of inverted snobbery . |
| 21 | Stamford became the capital of a huge kingdom extending right across central England ( it is still referred to as the capital of the Fens ) and King Penda ( c.577–655 ) , the last pagan King of Mercia , had his palace here . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The next thing to do whilst it is still taped to the light box is to draw up a component layout diagram , actual size . |
| 24 | Decades have their spirits , their haunting obsessions , their characteristic aspirations ; and though this book is governed not by chronology but by groups , by issues and by congeries of like minds , it is still possessed , always and inevitably , by a sense of evolving time . |
| 25 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
| 26 | It is still disputed where exactly the dome based upon pendentives originated , but its adoption for use in Christian churches is now accepted as being from eastern influence not , as was originally thought , from Imperial Rome . |
| 27 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 28 | It is still known as The Street and , after rejoining the A683 , again departs from it at the site of an old toll bar , branching off as a rough track to visit the hamlet of Stennerskeugh . |
| 29 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 30 | DEC , which will ‘ make it easy for users of dead end systems to move to Alpha , ’ says it is still committed to delivering RISC/Ultrix systems based upon the MIPS Technologies Inc R4000 processor next year . |