Example sentences of "[is] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it has nt , and your figure for the south stand is right , that s still more than 39 thousand . |
| 2 | He s still there . |
| 3 | It 's hard work building a nest , but there s still time to stop and share a tit bit . |
| 4 | ‘ We are just at the beginning of the worldwide epidemic and the situation is still very unstable . |
| 5 | He added , ‘ We are just at the beginning of the worldwide epidemic and the situation is still very unstable . |
| 6 | While pneumonia is still a common occurrence , current preventative measures and improved treatment have reduced the numbers dying as a result to only 3% by 1989 . |
| 7 | THERE IS STILL NO CURE , NO VACCINE , NO WONDER DRUG , FOR HIV INFECTION OR AIDS . |
| 8 | Torture is still being used to intimidate detainees . |
| 9 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
| 10 | Another of the seven students , 20-year-old Wahyudi , a prisoner featured in the April/May 1989 issue , is still serving a seven-year sentence in Cilacap , Central Java . |
| 11 | In Tibet Ngawang Buchung , a monk from the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa , is still serving a 19-year sentence imposed at a mass sentencing rally in November 1989 . |
| 12 | Although this is technically against the rules , it is still common practice . |
| 13 | A star system in guide books is still common practice today . |
| 14 | For he had revealed one of the eternally popular effects of nature , one which is still quoted by simple people as a standard of visual beauty . |
| 15 | Naipaul 's Caribbean country has been looted and exploited in the past , and it is still being looted and exploited . |
| 16 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 17 | Their relationship is still unresolved , as wise heads had foreseen in 1960 : but their marriage has gained a lease of life . |
| 18 | Amis is still soft on her , a sentiment which is likely to strike most of his readers as natural too . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the BTA is still the custodian of the finest theatre library in Europe . |
| 20 | This question is discussed later in the book , but it is still relevant to the potential drama student . |
| 21 | Although every moment of the lovers ' experience is drenched in imagery , there is still a fine feeling of reality about the characters which gives them bone and muscle . |
| 22 | It is the most important medium for getting known by the general public and affecting the attitude of employers but the theatre is still the best place for learning your trade . |
| 23 | Armistice Day is still only celebrated in Southern Ireland by protestants : as late as the early 1970s , you could still tell a protestant by his poppy on 11 November . |
| 24 | This is partly because of the structure of catholic nationalism in the Southern state and partly because the national unity sought by significant numbers of Northern catholic nationalists is still on the basis of the reversal of protestant — loyalist hegemony rather than a power compromise . |
| 25 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 26 | The continuation of inequality is still clear in the fields of income , housing , wealth , and employment but most of all in the protestant — loyalist alliance 's embargo on the minority ever holding political office . |
| 27 | Thus , while it is possible to identify liberal catholicism in Ireland from the late nineteenth century to the present , and though there has grown up a climate of liberal dissent and criticism of conservative catholicism , it is still possible to assert the prominence of conservative catholicism , particularly in its alliance with nationalism . |
| 28 | The belief is still popular that such a race exists , rather than there merely being a cultural group based on nationalist , republican , and catholic religious sentiment . |
| 29 | A similar exam is still compulsory for anyone seeking to enter the teaching profession without the required Leaving Certificate pass , even if they are never to teach the subject . |
| 30 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |