Example sentences of "[verb] exist [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Solland is overrun and Eldred Count of Solland slain — after this Solland ceases to exist as a separate land . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( A planetesimal is a small , solid celestial body that may have existed at an early stage of the development of the solar system . ) |
| 12 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 13 | As a result , membership slumped and in many parts of the country the Party ceased to exist as a mass organization . |
| 14 | The four republics assumed their responsibility for the Union 's debts , but would not accept contracts signed " after the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a single state " [ for IMF agreement with Soviet Union see p. 38553 ] . |
| 15 | The two tiers are not intended to exist in a hierarchical relationship to each other . |
| 16 | So , as with lathes and the skilled turner , so also with the CAD system and the designer , possibilities do exist for a symbiotic relationship between the worker and the equipment . |
| 17 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 18 | And from the ‘ land of oranges ’ , the new exiles arrived in the West Bank and in Lebanon and in the Kingdom of Transjordan with an identity — as ‘ Palestinians ’ — that applied to a country that no longer existed , that indeed never did exist as an independent nation . |
| 19 | With renewed talk of winding down both military alliances some ministers believe Nato must avoid stating the obvious : that the Warsaw Pact could cease to exist as a viable alliance . |
| 20 | Meiriona Davies ( Mrs Bielawski , formerly Mrs Noon ) , is an experienced careers of ficer of twenty years ' standing : ‘ Still doing it , but government policy means we shall probably soon cease to exist as a public service , so I shall no doubt be looking for something else unless by great good fortune the Tories lose power ! ’ |
| 21 | The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity , but the family unit has remained highly influential . |
| 22 | The secretariat , which had effectively ceased to exist as a cohesive body upon its reorganization in September 1988 [ see pp. 36355-56 ] , was to be revived and expanded . |
| 23 | Only the Annual General Meetings of the Board in 1858 and 1859 are recorded — extremely briefly — in the Minute Books , for by 1860 the High School had ceased to exist as a separate entity . |
| 24 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 25 | Between September 1939 and June 1941 the Left almost ceased to exist as a unified force . |
| 26 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 27 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 28 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 29 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 30 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |