Example sentences of "[adv] exist at [det] " in BNC.

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1 In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ .
2 In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides .
3 Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter .
4 The only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue but , which can not exist at all without them .
5 But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats .
6 The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead .
7 All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch .
8 She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided .
9 If the world had not first existed in the mind of God , it would not exist at all .
10 The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’
11 While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence .
12 I am known yet do not exist at all .
13 A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms .
14 The confusion to which the hon. Gentleman refers does not exist at any of the BP refineries that I have visited .
15 Between 1941 and 1945 it created a following for itself which has never been equalled since and certainly did not exist at any time prior to 1941 .
16 Where the treeline is sharply defined it may hardly exist at all ; more often it is a narrow band of forest-tundra , in which stands of trees alternate with dense shrubby tundra .
17 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 .
18 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 .
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 There are whole areas here , Donald , where basic facilities such as water , for example , are in very poor supply or simply do n't exist at all .
21 But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece .
22 The interchange would also rely more on personal meetings whether at seminars or not and some records would not then exist at all .
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