Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , considerable earthworks do sometimes exist and these are , of course , well worth recording . |
| 2 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 3 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 4 | Although my own options were fairly limited — and moving was not one of them — satisfactory alternatives do thankfully exist . |
| 5 | How far the distinction does still exist , and how far it should do so , will be considered below . |
| 6 | What has to be decided is which non-meanings may be significantly regarded as existing " in their own right " , and which can not be so regarded ; what conditions must be fulfilled before a claim that a given topic does so exist can be accepted as meaningful ? |
| 7 | I think there is a dynamic movement in the structure of industry and in the geographic location of industry , the move away from some of the old traditional steel and coal mining and heavy industries into service industries and electronics , which does very clearly demonstrate that an enterprise economy does now exist . |
| 8 | But , as we have seen , there are good reasons for thinking that such countervailing forces do indeed exist , principally in the archaic superego structures which , thanks to neoteny and the neurophysiological changes of the latency period , have become natural to man . |
| 9 | It enables the counsellor to remind the family that better times did once exist , and raises the prospect that they could exist again if the reasons for current difficulties can be understood . |
| 10 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 11 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 12 | A link does however exist between manufacturing and function which is often forgotten . |
| 13 | Sun worshippers , however , who feel the anti-sun lobby are simply killjoys can take heart because a safe tan does actually exist . |
| 14 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |
| 15 | It 's good to know that somewhere jobs do consistently exist is n't it ? |