Example sentences of "existed [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it existed as such for millions of years . |
| 2 | If one goes far enough back in United Kingdom constitutional history , one comes to a time when neither Lords nor Commons existed as such and when indeed , it was often by no means certain where the Crown should reside . |
| 3 | On Maiden no communication problems existed as all had a common language , English despite their mother tongues being varied . |
| 4 | Polypropylene has replaced nylon in this range and no standard recipes existed for such a blend . |
| 5 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 6 | Little fraternal love existed between these two clandestine arms of government . |
| 7 | In both public opinion of a modern kind scarcely existed during this period . |
| 8 | Perhaps he existed after all . ’ |
| 9 | No record existed of any returns either to the Inland Revenue or to the Customs and Excise authorities . |
| 10 | What she came up with was ‘ The Museum of Non-Objective Art ’ and the Guggenheim Museum existed under that rubric for some years . |
| 11 | The exact interpretation is not simple , however , since the previous mandatory scale referred to minimum fees and there is only limited evidence relating to the level of mark-up which existed above these . |
| 12 | In others , however , fee-payers ( who may or may not have been among ‘ the gifted and the intellectual ’ ) existed alongside those who had won places in the eleven-plus competition . |
| 13 | It was in these smaller and older streets that urban life existed in all its jostle and bustle . |
| 14 | Special schools existed in all local authorities but rarely were the children who attended given the opportunity to share everyday experiences with their more fortunate contemporaries . |
| 15 | Age discrimination — which was not new but was worsening because of the current economic recession — existed in all EC countries , but had yet to be recognised as a problem , the report said . |
| 16 | Concentrations of listeners — and potential listeners — existed in such regional centres as Mwanza , Mbeya and Arusha , where reception was poor . |
| 17 | At the end of the last article I promised a visit to Wales , to see whether the same geometric patterns existed in that part of the country . |
| 18 | As a doctor , she was more than well aware that children needed to be protected , and that abuse existed in many forms . |
| 19 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 20 | It was basically a neighbourly association of kin and workmates , not dissimilar to that which existed in many urban working-class neighbourhoods , but which the outsider could find virtually impenetrable . |
| 21 | The use of level II regions for analysis of regional disparities was perfectly understandable in light of the fact that there already existed in many countries an administrative structure which was in a position to provide relevant statistical information . |
| 22 | The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country . |
| 23 | There was , however , one troubling group inherited from the Roman past , which remained a permanent feature of the social landscape of Western Europe : the Jews who existed in most Roman towns , in large numbers or small . |
| 24 | The unification of Italy and of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century was a belated achievement by the bourgeoisie in those countries of a large , efficiently organized modern state , essential for the rapid development of capitalist production , such as already existed in most of Western Europe and in the US . |
| 25 | There existed in those days a true camaraderie in our profession , whatever the small differences in our approach . |
| 26 | Animal and plant ecology long remained separate disciplines , and plant ecology itself existed in several different forms . |
| 27 | At that time , Unix existed in several versions , and there were no universal standards . |
| 28 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 29 | Models nevertheless existed in some parts of Europe and variation has been explained by the use of forms of the lost-wax or -lead process ( Capelle and Vierck 1975 ; Vierck 1976 ; Arrhenius 1973 ; 1975 ; Dickinson 1982 , pp. 21–2 ) . |
| 30 | After all , the laws of war existed in some form long before the idea of the modern multilateral treaty had been invented . |