Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] do [adv] exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That of course does not exist , ’ he says . |
| 2 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |
| 3 | That reference does no more than show that the essential element of dishonesty does not exist if the defendant when he appropriates the property believes that the owner would consent if he knew the circumstances . |
| 4 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 5 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 6 | When an agreed standard of performance does not exist it might be useful to compare present performance with some previous base period ( e.g. the same month last year ) . |
| 7 | In the absence of such mutual obligation , it has been held , a relationship of employment does not exist . |
| 8 | The two forms of reason do not exist independently of each other , as different forms of reality , but exist in relation to each other in an economy comparable to Derrida 's differential ‘ stricture ’ . |
| 9 | Philippe Aries 's famous work Centuries of Childhood argued that in medieval society ‘ the idea of childhood does not exist ’ . |
| 10 | There was little doubt that when this liberalization took effect there would be a rush for places in the Chinese " special economic zones " where Taiwan 's major problems of high labour costs and the limited availability of land did not exist . |
| 11 | Although a complete generative grammar of English does not exist , one approach linguists have taken is to formulate different types of grammar and determine whether any particular grammar is in principle adequate . |
| 12 | The concept of deeds or documents under seal does not exist in Hungarian law . |
| 13 | The version of a module to be read via PI does not exist . |
| 14 | The version of a module to be read from LIFESPAN via PI does not exist . |
| 15 | Synergies from diversification did not exist . |
| 16 | Despite these qualifications to the degree of state dependence on monopoly capital , pluralists frame their response to Marxist ideas almost as though more recent developments in Marxism did not exist . |
| 17 | The fraud involved creation of false profits and stocks in the books over a seven-year period through use of purported contracts , which in reality did not exist , with third world countries . |