Example sentences of "[noun] do [adv] exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such words do not exist in Russian . |
| 2 | We have all heard the prophets of social and moral decay recalling the days when such ‘ senseless and mindless ’ violence did not exist . |
| 3 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 4 | Too fast , too young , too much of a good thing in a hurry , their earlier days before and around ‘ Immigrants , Emigrants And Me ’ had the band rip-roaring through some off-kilter funfair where all the rides were free and curfews and the like did not exist . |
| 5 | If the court on review believes that the requisite situation spoken of in the statute did not exist then the conclusion reached by the tribunal will be a nullity . |
| 6 | He also attempted to import Tel Quel 's conviction , derived from semiotics , that the hors-texte did not exist . |
| 7 | Such a brigade did not exist , but had been dreamed up by Brigadier Dudley Clark , who at the time was in charge of an outfit dealing with deception plans . |
| 8 | Similarly he might reject both " Dragons do not exist " and " ( Ex ) x is a dragon " as ill-formed . |
| 9 | ‘ Dragons do n't exist , ’ said Hrun flatly . |
| 10 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 11 | Clinically useful EGF antagonists do not exist . |
| 12 | America 's a nice place to live ; I have more friends over there than I do here and basically , as far as I 'm concerned , nations do not exist ; they are a place where you have friends , that 's all . |
| 13 | ‘ Even if Lulach did not exist , there is nothing I can do , ’ Sulien said . |
| 14 | I and in Glasgow and we attempted to break some of the barriers you 're talking about by holding a girl 's week and part of the girl 's was to run a five-a-side tournament and we were also breaking down territorial barriers , we had girls from different housing schemes within the east end of Glasgow , but I feel the opportunities do n't exist ! |
| 15 | However , this has not meant that job opportunities do not exist . |
| 16 | It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable . |
| 17 | Everything was behind them and the future did n't exist . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 19 | Systemics did n't exist in my nursery days , and we had to use contact pesticides . |
| 20 | Counsel took the case on for nothing and , on appeal , the Divisional Court found that the crime did not exist . |
| 21 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 22 | An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times . |
| 23 | Analogously one might say " that the Earth is round is a fact " , " that Ruritania does not exist is a fact " . |
| 24 | Facts are whatever it is that is expressed by true propositions , and " The Earth is round " and " Ruritania does not exist " both happen to be true . |
| 25 | So how should one define that which both " The Earth is round " and " Ruritania does not exist " have in common ? |
| 26 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 27 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 28 | Yet even on the most charitable view of facts , one can hardly treat propositions like " Ruritania does not exist " as being on the same logical footing as any other synthetic true singular propositions without throwing into confusion the whole concept of existence . |
| 29 | As a self-sufficient economy we are spared the valuable advice of those we could have done without ; we do employ those we need where local capability does not exist ( medical staff , technicians , etc ) . |
| 30 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |