Example sentences of "[verb] exist [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Solomon Islands is a new nation-state which may have been created through the imposition of an arbitrary boundary , but has to exist as a viable institution within the modern world . |
| 2 | Madness can not be considered to exist outside the historical conditions of its production — and could never therefore be ‘ restored … to its original language ’ as Foucault hopes . |
| 3 | By spotlighting Hemingway 's taciturn blacks , the shadowy , subdued figures in Faulkner , or the insubstantial and sketchy figure of Willa Cather 's slave in Sapphira and the Slave Girl , Morrison reveals blackness as the boundary , the context that defines the ‘ mute ’ and ‘ frozen ’ world of whiteness : ‘ Suddenly I saw the bowl , the structure that transparently ( and invisibly ) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world . ’ |
| 4 | The origin of this very basic and particularly European way of thought lies in the experience that I appear to exist as a conscious entity within my body , and yet remain distinguishable from my body . |
| 5 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 6 | Variations can also be expected to exist between the more and the less accessible rural areas , but few published data exist that allow this to be illustrated . |
| 7 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 8 | The Kampuchean Communist Party , first called the Khmer Rouge by Prince Sihanouk , has existed under the same leadership since the 1950s , has deep roots in Cambodia , and is not about to disappear . |
| 9 | As was noted earlier , the liberal tradition should be viewed as a continuum ; and , at the radical end of the continuum , has existed as a continuous , albeit minority , strand : the commitment to collective , social purpose Adult Education . |
| 10 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
| 11 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 12 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 13 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 14 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 15 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 16 | There are no plans to end the maximum part-time option , which has existed since the early days of the NHS . |
| 17 | The stockpile of raw and processed food , and emergency field cooking equipment has existed since the Second World War . |
| 18 | This arrangement has existed since the mid 1970s . |
| 19 | Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 . |
| 20 | Hermitage has existed since the thirteenth century , standing within older earthworks . |
| 21 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 22 | But the chances are it will still be there , and the evidence is that it has existed in a recognizable form throughout human history , everywhere in the world . |
| 23 | A system of managed floating has existed in the international monetary system since 1973 , and its operation will be discussed in Chapter 9 . |
| 24 | Considerable pressure to conform exists within the lesbian feminist communities , and those of us who conspicuously deviate from the norm either get stared at or are ignored . |
| 25 | The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular . |
| 26 | Solland is overrun and Eldred Count of Solland slain — after this Solland ceases to exist as a separate land . |
| 27 | He insisted that every entity asserted to exist in mathematics must be shown to exist by a finite set of instructions whose applications yield the entity . |
| 28 | No natural boundary appears to exist between the natural and social sciences . |
| 29 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 30 | ( A planetesimal is a small , solid celestial body that may have existed at an early stage of the development of the solar system . ) |