Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gencor 's chairman , Brian Gilbertson , put it bluntly : ‘ If the present Gencor did not already exist , no-one would dream of joining Engen , Genbel , Malbak , Sappi and the mining business into a single conglomerate . ’ |
| 2 | Viz comic did not yet exist , though to celebrate our 10th birthday they have specially drawn this moving portrait of The Fat Slags at school . |
| 3 | The first section of the M1 had been opened in 1959 , but the M4 did not yet exist . |
| 4 | However , in September when he first saw the chemists ' proposal the ‘ good ’ data did not yet exist , indeed , did not exist until early in the new year . |
| 5 | Paul-Henri Spaak , back as premier of Belgium , suggested that since the EDC Assembly did not yet exist , the Assembly of the ECSC could turn itself into an ad hoc EDC body specifically to consider a more wide-ranging political cooperation . |
| 6 | The case against ITV had initially to be made against something that did not yet exist . |
| 7 | A settled administrative capital did not yet exist . |
| 8 | The French Algerian and Congo wars were in full swing ; performance art did not yet exist but she incorporated tear gas for the grand finale of her shooting performances . |
| 9 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |
| 10 | What , for instance , is the relation between ‘ Frenchness ’ and francophonie ( a term which did not even exist until recently — it is first recorded in 1959 ) . |
| 11 | Like MI6 , for many years GCHQ did not officially exist despite the fact that it was listed in several yearbooks . |
| 12 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 13 | He succumbs to the temptation ( Fig. 10 ) , in order to illustrate the superiority of rural interiors to those in cities , a difference which , he claims , did not formerly exist . |
| 14 | At a meeting of the commissars of the Roslavl' garrison the military commander of the town hospital admitted that the political cell in his institution did not really exist , although there were occasional discussions of newspaper articles . |
| 15 | They were in neither half of the house , but in a space that did not really exist for Maggie , who never asked herself which half the house was whose , since the whole house was , for her , theirs . |
| 16 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |
| 17 | Mr Girdle 's solicitor , on the other hand , complained that ‘ the ‘ Girdle Gang ’ ’ did not really exist , except in the imagination of a ‘ needy paragraphist' ’ ’ . |
| 18 | Until last year the balancing item ( ie , errors and omissions ) in the over-seas accounts was larger than the recorded current-account deficit : so that deficit quite possibly did not really exist . |
| 19 | C — Closed : The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 20 | C — Closed The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 21 | C — Closed — The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator . |
| 22 | These did not now exist . ’ |
| 23 | Offices that occupy millions of cubic feet in our contemporary administrative buildings did not then exist , and the government had virtually no paid agents in the localities . |
| 24 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 25 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 26 | Do not just exist — LIVE for every hour of the day and your life can become fuller than those of very many people who hear well . |
| 27 | As we are beginning to see , however , these people generate their own rules for ordering their lives , they do not just exist in the middle of chaos . |
| 28 | ‘ Facts ’ do not just exist , they have to be grasped by the intellect , using a conceptual framework . |
| 29 | It would be part of the Foundation 's role in partnership at all levels to encourage development of networks where they do not already exist , and to reinforce them where they do — for greater consolidated strength and continuous intercommunication . |
| 30 | Methods of measuring cost will be developed where they do not already exist , and will be applied to scheme data . |