Example sentences of "existed [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1915 , there had always existed the possibility of making a short or wide turning movement of one or other of an enemy 's flanks ; that option no longer existed . |
| 2 | There seemed to be a sense of ease in their company that had n't existed the night before , and she opened up a little on her background . |
| 3 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 4 | There seems to have existed a form of Spanish Islam which was like nothing then available anywhere in Europe . |
| 5 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
| 6 | Jenny had put Ted quite out of her mind and was threshing over problems and questions she would not have believed could have existed a week ago . |
| 7 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 8 | In the past , there has existed an implied threat of discrimination in favour of LTA players when it comes to selection for teams , wild-cards and trips abroad . |
| 9 | The basic political conflicts which are likely to decide the fate of the world today have little to do with nation-states , because for half a century there has not existed an international state system of the 19th- century European type , but an essentially bi-polar world organised round two superpowers . |