Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 2 | Later the same day a meeting in Brussels of EC Foreign Ministers ( excluding Dumas who was not present ) declared that they " regret to have to conclude that the conditions for a new European initiative do not exist " . |
| 3 | These regulatory agencies are increasingly faced with transnational adversaries who are capable of shifting their main base of operation — or if that is too drastic , their illegal activities at least — to other countries where laws against such behaviour do not exist , or if they do , where enforcement is even more lax . |
| 4 | In our species rigidly set behavioural patterns for social or sexual behaviour do not exist . |
| 5 | The earthquake of 12 October caused a range of damage to over150 Pharaonic , Coptic and Islamic monuments in and around Cairo , weakening a number of structures that were already unstable and details of whose condition before the quake do not exist . |
| 6 | Accepting the uniqueness of capitalism in the disjunction between the extraction of economic surplus and extra-economic coercion also suggests that in post-capitalist societies the correlation between base and superstructural form is highly significant , i.e. that ‘ pure ’ economics do not exist in such societies . |
| 7 | However , there is no reported case in which this point has been taken by an employer in order to argue that the special approach is not always applicable ; it may be that the special approach is so entrenched in judicial thinking that even an employer who is able to demonstrate that the factual bases for the special approach do not exist in the instant case will not succeed in persuading the court to abandon it . |
| 8 | Therefore the usual periods of calm and quiet in the routine of a building do not exist , for example , outside normal office hours , over the weekend and during the annual holidays . |
| 9 | Life in the slum forces parents to adopt child-rearing methods of which they do not approve , and Wilson concludes that ‘ in the world of poverty the material preconditions necessary for child-centred parenting do not exist ’ . |
| 10 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |
| 11 | However , it is clear that sufficient places in secure accommodation do not exist to meet the need created by that change in the law . |
| 12 | The two forms of reason do not exist independently of each other , as different forms of reality , but exist in relation to each other in an economy comparable to Derrida 's differential ‘ stricture ’ . |
| 13 | Clearly , bits of the brain do not exist in isolation . |
| 14 | Current research assumes that crime and justice do not exist in a social vacuum , that they are at least partially political creations , and that they are inextricably involved in society . |