Example sentences of "[noun sg] existed for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a Group Captain , Dave Durkin was first at Medmenham from 1964–66 and no trophy existed for the match , but as a piece of ‘ superfluous ’ R.A.F. silver was to hand , it was re-dedicated as The Danesfield Cup expressly for this annual combat . |
| 2 | Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds . |
| 3 | It would fully accord with the general principles of contract and treaty law if a mechanism existed for the parties to union to vary the terms of union from time to time by agreement . |
| 4 | Sufficient common ground existed for a programme of reform to be formulated and presented to an electorate , so constituted as aggressively independent working class — males as producers , females as consumers and reproducers . |
| 5 | Japanese in Formosa were mostly short-term residents who enjoyed the traditional privileges of a colonizing race and who , backed by Tokyo , implemented a colonial policy whose basic premise was that the colony existed for the benefit and betterment of mainland Japan , economically , politically and militarily . |
| 6 | It was tacitly assumed by everyone that every single thing existed for the benefit of humankind — nature was man 's convenient larder or leisure bowl . |
| 7 | This was the man , it should always be remembered , who joined the British army and worked as a stretcher bearer in the Zulu rebellion of 1906 , giving as his reason that ‘ the British empire existed for the welfare of the world ’ . |