Example sentences of "[vb base] [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 | No such claim as Scobie posits was made , and grounds for it do not exist empirically . |
| 3 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 4 | Incipient demand Customer needs do not exist yet , but they will emerge if current trends continue . |
| 5 | The conditions do not exist , period . |
| 6 | This was the kind of diversification Daimler should have pursued all along , rather than chasing grandiose ‘ synergies ’ which probably do not exist . |
| 7 | If they ‘ do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit , they must either have no existence at all , or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It often happens [ as in dreams and fevers ] that we perceive things that do not exist . ’ |
| 9 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 10 | Berkeley sees that , to his identification of mental ideas with real things , ‘ it will be objected that we see things actually without or at a distance from us , and which consequently do not exist in the mind ’ . |
| 11 | According to Berkeley , real things are dependent on , and do not exist outside of , perceiving minds ; according to common sense , however , they are independent of our perception of them . |
| 12 | The reason why this book has not yet been written is that conscious experience of the presence and life of the Spirit among contemporary Christians is so thin and weak and hampered that conditions do not exist in which anyone can write with full-blooded conviction on the subject . |
| 13 | Of course this must be tentative : records do not exist of Zuwaya organization and ideology two centuries ago . |
| 14 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 15 | I do not exist except to serve you and give you pleasure . |
| 16 | Restaurants and civilised bars do not exist . |
| 17 | Where space beside the house or access past it do not exist , your last resort is to site a garage in your front garden , but this may spoil the appearance of the front of your house ( and may also be unacceptable to the local planning authorities — see RULES AND REGULATIONS ) . |
| 18 | Although Hoyle 's model can be criticised on the grounds that the ideal types do not exist , or that many teachers exhibit characteristics from both sides of the model , it nevertheless exposes crucial aspects of the relationships between teachers and the organisations in which they work when used in the heuristic format for which it was intended . |
| 19 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 20 | Firstly , they are multi-class , which does not mean that class struggles do not exist . |
| 21 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Many commentaries without such an explicit and analytical statement , bewail the lack of political will , expertise or rational planning , without offering any explanation as to why these qualities frequently do not exist to carry out effective conservation . |
| 23 | If the present , our present , has a place in the novel , it is as something that is looked to and not seen ; we do not exist . |
| 24 | If our concern is health , widely defined , not merely medical care , it is probably inevitable in our present society that resources do not exist to meet all the demands that the pursuit of health for all may make . |
| 25 | That is not to say , however , that such moments do not exist or that they do not have a profound and often life-changing effect on the person who experiences them . |
| 26 | Just because the human ear is ‘ deaf ’ to high frequency and low frequency sounds , as every scientist knows , it does not mean they do not exist , nor that we can not be affected by them . |
| 27 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |
| 28 | When such preformed randomized control groups do not exist , inferences have to be drawn post hoc from comparisons between unrandomized groups . |
| 29 | It is not as if alternatives do not exist . |
| 30 | As the news became grimmer , a poster appeared with the words , ‘ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat — they do not exist ! ’ |