Example sentences of "still is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under ‘ Bernini ’ was the name Professor Charles Howard , who was and still is the school 's Director . |
| 2 | Basic it still is ; even so it does more than many scientific calculators , and release 2 computes faster , has a proper menu structure , EGA colour capability and is generally bullet-proof . |
| 3 | After nine months in office he still is uncertain whether to go fast or slow on any issue from the Russians to oil slicks . |
| 4 | To that extent , it still is a force to be reckoned with . ’ |
| 5 | IT USED to be an easy decision , and still is for many racing fans — the first weekend in October is the time to visit Paris . |
| 6 | Lewes contends that , whereas these gynaecophobic tendencies were from the start challenged by women analysts , the same could not occur in relation to the homophobia of the discipline since homosexuals were systematically excluded from it , with the result that ‘ the psychoanalytic discourse on homosexuality has been and still is formulated by non-homosexuals about homosexuals ’ ( The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality , 21 , 237 — 8 ) . |
| 7 | It is the complexity which is first and foremost a social process , and within which the text was , and still is , implicated . |
| 8 | About half way up Tottenham Court Road there was , and still is , a Scientology centre . |
| 9 | Better still is the way it sweeps through the quarter-mile in 17.7secs and reaches 100mph in 22.8secs . |
| 10 | Medical equipment was , and still is , a priority . |
| 11 | The garden was and still is his paradise and his pride and joy , and whenever Charles has the time he will put on a pair of old trousers , find a spade and get down to some real manual labour . |
| 12 | This ‘ silver sea , was also , and still is , one of the world 's richest fishing zones — as well as a playground for sailors and a source of inspiration for poets and painters . |
| 13 | Simon Gray 's The Holy Terror was good , but Beckett is incomparable , and Barry McGovern 's reading of Stirrings Still is an owl in the belfry of my memory . |
| 14 | He was a good harmonizer and still is . |
| 15 | He did give everybody the run-around , but was wonderfully attractive and , indeed , still is . |
| 16 | Deterrence — the knowledge that a strike by one side would provoke a devastating retaliatory strike by the other — was and still is the surest way to keep the peace in a dangerous world . |
| 17 | It still is . |
| 18 | It still is . |
| 19 | Political violence was rampant , and still is : it cost at least 3,000 lives in 1990 . |
| 20 | He was widely seen by Indians as a hero then , and still is . |
| 21 | In corporate finance , the conventional view in America and Britain still is that Japanese firms rely for most of their money on friendly banks that they have been wining and dining for years . |
| 22 | For the spirit still is bright and swift , the eye capable of all delight ; but what can that avail , when I can not , here , in the street , submit to my impulse or sensation , but must be a creature of body , where the body is all , the spirit in subjection to it ? |
| 23 | Insanity was , and still is , a complete defence to crime , as we saw in Chapter 6.2 above , but its confines are narrow , and some persons obviously suffering from mental disorder came to be sentenced to death for murder before 1957 . |
| 24 | The mark of this new covenant was ( and still is ) circumcision . |
| 25 | The fact that the early DUP was Free Presbyterian explains why the senior leadership still is . |
| 26 | Tammuz Malamute was a great adventure for me — and still is . ’ |
| 27 | Gnosticism was ( and still is ) a theosophy with many ingredients . |
| 28 | ‘ She was a simple commodity with a squeaky-clean public image and there was n't still is n't — a kid who did n't want to be like her or a parent who would discourage their children from admiring her . ’ |
| 29 | There is not much doubt that in the past direct mail has been a blunt instrument and often still is . |
| 30 | ‘ The ad manager , ’ says Logan , ‘ could never explain to anyone what The Face was about ’ — and it still is n't easy . |