Example sentences of "existed [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 2 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 3 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 8 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | In July 1980 a dispute at the Lenin shipyards in the Baltic port of Gdansk led to the formation of an inter-strike committee and shortly afterwards to the establishment of Solidarity , the first ( and so far the last ) genuinely self-governing trade union that has ever existed in a communist-ruled country . |