Example sentences of "if [pron] did exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plato , after all , might never have thought of Atlantis ; and similarly Homer might never have thought of Achilles ; although this does not necessarily mean that if they did exist , they pre-existed thought in an absolute sense . |
| 2 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 3 | The second consequence of this unilinearity is that the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language and society in which that idea may not have existed , or — if it did exist — may have been different in important ways from the idea of the standard as it exists today . |
| 4 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 5 | It follows that there can be no greatest cardinal number , for such a number , if it did exist , would be " greater than itself " . |
| 6 | ‘ And even if he did exist , ’ he went on , ‘ I 'm not sure he was a terribly nice person . ’ |