Example sentences of "[adv] as it exists " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an Act of Parliament has been obtained improperly , it is for the legislature to correct it by repealing it : but , so long as it exists as law , the courts are bound to obey it . |
| 2 | Often they are questions on which the hierarchy of the family ( in so far as it exists in Britain ) has to be consulted . |
| 3 | The problem results from the fact that the compulsory element in the Directive , so far as it exists , relates merely to the transfer of the contract of employment , but the contract of employment is a consensual relationship , at least as far as the employee is concerned , and so it is in principle available to be terminated unilaterally by the employee at any time or to be modified with the joint consent of employee and employer . |
| 4 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |
| 5 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |