Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my own options were fairly limited — and moving was not one of them — satisfactory alternatives do thankfully exist . |
| 2 | It enables the counsellor to remind the family that better times did once exist , and raises the prospect that they could exist again if the reasons for current difficulties can be understood . |
| 3 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |
| 4 | The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain . |
| 5 | Particles of spin 0 , 1 , or 2 do also exist in some circumstances as real particles , when they can be directly detected . |
| 6 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 7 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 8 | Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment . |
| 9 | But still there was no explicit experimental evidence that the W and Z particles , key figures in the theory , did indeed exist . |
| 10 | However , on this occasion the court concluded there did indeed exist an irreducible minimum of obligation sufficient to confer employee status ( see Leighton , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | It 's good to know that somewhere jobs do consistently exist is n't it ? |
| 12 | However , considerable earthworks do sometimes exist and these are , of course , well worth recording . |
| 13 | But , as we have seen , there are good reasons for thinking that such countervailing forces do indeed exist , principally in the archaic superego structures which , thanks to neoteny and the neurophysiological changes of the latency period , have become natural to man . |
| 14 | Mediocre modern copies of it do however exist , some in and around Bologna , while others have been on the market and yet others are in museums ( Amsterdam , Detroit ) . |
| 15 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 16 | But if we have to make an explicit assumption that living creatures , or men , do actually exist in order to make an inferential paraphrase work , then a reductivist analysis fails to achieve its purpose and we are back exactly where we began . |
| 17 | There were momentary objections to the business , as when Mr Clay questioned whether an ‘ exceptional state of crime ’ did actually exist , protesting that the House was ‘ legislating under an unreasonable state of panic ’ . |
| 18 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 19 | What has to be decided is which non-meanings may be significantly regarded as existing " in their own right " , and which can not be so regarded ; what conditions must be fulfilled before a claim that a given topic does so exist can be accepted as meaningful ? |
| 20 | Because of this , the system is rarely used now , but it does still exist in some older houses . |
| 21 | As this chapter will go on to show , a small economically dominant class undoubtedly does still exist in Western societies . |
| 22 | How far the distinction does still exist , and how far it should do so , will be considered below . |
| 23 | What does still exist — apart from the ecclesiastical Byzantine heritage , notably the great church of S. Sophia ( pages 104–6 ) , are major military and engineering structures so typical of all Roman cities . |
| 24 | There was once a rockery-keeper living in this cottage on the estate — it was his full-time job to take care of the rockery which was above the cascade created by Capability Brown , which does still exist . |
| 25 | I think there is a dynamic movement in the structure of industry and in the geographic location of industry , the move away from some of the old traditional steel and coal mining and heavy industries into service industries and electronics , which does very clearly demonstrate that an enterprise economy does now exist . |
| 26 | Their claim was based on a privilege that does indeed exist for libel , where the defendant is not required to disclose his sources . |
| 27 | It is contentious as to whether such a ‘ women 's art ’ does indeed exist , yet female concerns and experiences evidently do exist , as show so clearly in the ‘ Wicked Women ’ animations . |
| 28 | A link does however exist between manufacturing and function which is often forgotten . |
| 29 | Sun worshippers , however , who feel the anti-sun lobby are simply killjoys can take heart because a safe tan does actually exist . |