Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] exist " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We are n't , of course , suggesting that clays ‘ want ’ to go on existing . |
| 2 | More importantly , we shall also consider some of the most recent approaches that psychologists have adopted in their attempts to bridge the gap which has hitherto existed between psychological theory and educational practice . |
| 3 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 4 | Something akin to the contemporary pattern of hooliganism has long existed in Glasgow as a result of Irish Catholic immigration and militant working-class Scottish Protestantism . |
| 5 | Though it has long existed , it has spread wider as the Japanese economy has matured and become more open to competition , especially from overseas . |
| 6 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |
| 7 | However , there are important cases , particularly Senegal and Tanzania , where the tendency towards a national identity has been more important than localism , which is not to say that the conflict has not existed . |
| 8 | ‘ The state ’ , says Engels , ‘ … has not existed from all eternity . |
| 9 | Harmony with our children , even where harmony has not existed before , becomes an important element of our peace of mind . |
| 10 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 11 | The basic political conflicts which are likely to decide the fate of the world today have little to do with nation-states , because for half a century there has not existed an international state system of the 19th- century European type , but an essentially bi-polar world organised round two superpowers . |
| 12 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 13 | Better not to exist at all . |
| 14 | I can see a situation in which a government made up of aggressive men , their minds set on world domination achieved through war , could seize on your researches to create the most warlike and dangerous nation that has ever existed , which links with this gentleman 's second point . ’ |
| 15 | As stated repeatedly in this book , there is no real evidence that such an able and well-endowed ‘ god ’ , beyond human influence , has ever existed , and those who teach otherwise perpetuate the induced temptation to abandon personal responsibility . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The best chance of success for working people no doubt would be if the two great general unions , the T G W U and the G M B , found a way of doing it together , found a way of creating the most powerful union that has ever existed in Britain . |
| 18 | The humour of anachronism has always existed , of course . |
| 19 | With Islam , however , there will be important links between the strength of the mosques and the political complexion of government , as has always existed between the Murid Brotherhood and the government of Senegal , and as the introduction of Sharia Law in Sudan in 1983 , and the strength of fundamentalist movements in northern Nigeria indicates . |
| 20 | ‘ This force has always existed within Nature and has been worshipped by human beings in various forms for aeons . |
| 21 | But the competition which has always existed between them is undeniable . |
| 22 | One school , premising that the cosmos is ungenerated and indestructible , declares that the human race has always existed , and there was no time when it began to reproduced itself . |
| 23 | The ozone layer ( spread out between 12 and 50km above the Earth ) , has always existed and , left to its own devices , will regenerate and interact with other airborne gases to create a perfect balance . |
| 24 | Galloway ( 1982 ) and Furlong ( 1985 ) present a body of evidence that disruptive behaviour has always existed among boys and girls , in state and public schools , across the age range but more prominently in the lower ability range . |
| 25 | ‘ According to our faith , ’ he wrote , ‘ nothing has always existed except God alone , Who is altogether immobile . ’ |
| 26 | The st'lyan has always existed here . ’ |
| 27 | The Contingency Reserve has always existed as a cushion to meet unexpected demands for spending without breaking the overall planning target for public spending set in the White Papers . |
| 28 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 29 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 30 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |