Example sentences of "where it existed " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the borderlands themselves , in Poland , for example — as Rosa Luxemburg so cogently argued — the interests of the aristocracy of the minority peoples ( where it existed ) had become interwoven with the Tsarist order . |
| 3 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | 267 , which came to the Privy Council just before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created , provides a valuable illustration of the fact that in the absence of such arrangements as were made between the Inns of Court and the judges in this country , the power to judges to determine who were fit and proper persons to practise before them , where it existed , was regarded as essential for the due administration of justice . |
| 5 | In all these inquiries the main conclusions were that abuse of patients where it existed was the consequence of acute shortages of staff , overcrowding and lack of facilities for patients and that general neglect pervaded in subnormality hospitals . |
| 6 | Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence . |