Example sentences of "existed [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not seem to realize that the Allies ' prime concern was the neutrality of Spain , and that any interest they might have in the nature of its political regime existed as a function of that concern . |
| 2 | While the Continent , and even England , were wracked by turmoil and conflict , Ireland existed as a bastion of study , of culture , of civilization . |
| 3 | An investigation by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the supply of beer appeared in 1989 and in the main agreed with CAMRA that a monopoly existed as a result of the complex vertical and horizontal grip of the nationals . |
| 4 | It was a nuisance that the Telegraph was so vague about her address — she was n't even sure whether Herefordshire still existed as a county — but perhaps Bridget would have more exact details for her next day . |
| 5 | Of these only the CLC ( Cheshire Lines Extension Railway ) and LYR Derby Road sheds survived as working depots into the 20th Century , although until the 1980's , the WLR shed existed as a workshop by the Windsor Road/Hampton Road footbridge . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 7 | For the bellman still existed as the means of such communications . |
| 8 | Exactly how and when the first state emerged in the history of human society is a problem impossible to resolve ; and for that matter it is by no means inconceivable that embryonic forms of the state always existed as an inheritance from animal societies . |
| 9 | Nature was red in tooth and claw , no less than capitalists , the weak existed for no purpose except to be eliminated by the strong , thus toughening the race in its total , unending war with itself and everything else around . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well can I say that er if I might say so first of all , I think that the , the antipathy that existed for a period actually came more from the workshop , rather than the management . |
| 12 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 13 | Supporters of the regulation , which included the UK , claimed that alternatives existed for every whale product . |
| 14 | At least 200 separate patents applications from universities existed for the biotechnology tools that industry wanted to use . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Although programs like DO-IT existed for the PC before anything appeared for the Macintosh it and its close cousins cost several thousand pounds . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Moreover , despite the efforts of Liverpool City Council and Merseyside County Council during the 1970s , no realistic development plans existed for the area . |
| 21 | It is now clear that once more or less traumatic weaning was introduced by mothers who were , by comparison to the hunter-gatherers who preceded them , forceful and disciplinarian , the right psychological conditions existed for the emergence of manic-depressive and paranoid disorders . |
| 22 | No charts or sailing directions then existed for the coast beyond Cabo Santa Maria : no one had ventured this way before . |
| 23 | In the Spring of 1966 , six of the Commissioners , led by Radzinowicz and Wootton resigned , having become persuaded that , with substantial legislation pending , and in the absence of conclusive research to support recommendations likely to last for a lengthy period , the opportunity no longer existed for the Commission to make a comprehensive report capable of setting the direction for a generation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No matter how many causes and causal circumstances existed for an effect , it was true of each cause that if it occurred , so did the effect . |
| 26 | The discussion was not conclusive but views were expressed that , while there was no such obligation on the Central Authority , if it felt that good grounds existed for an appeal , it could properly act . |
| 27 | This rule now removes the doubt that often existed about the duration of a notice , when the period started at the time of submission to the council . |
| 28 | It thus becomes clear that an intricate web of mutual dependency existed between the state and private individuals , between the military , the hunters , the peasants , the craftsmen and the merchants . |
| 29 | In terms of military conquest , a considerable difference existed between the conditions encountered in the north and the south of Siberia . |
| 30 | In particular it will examine the applicability of the theory that a change of strategy within a firm invariably arose when outsider elements ( eg junior directors , middle managers of external consultants ) persuaded senior managers and directors that a gap existed between the firm 's existing strategy and its external markets . |