Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not exist " in BNC.

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1 We have all heard the prophets of social and moral decay recalling the days when such ‘ senseless and mindless ’ violence did not exist .
2 Too fast , too young , too much of a good thing in a hurry , their earlier days before and around ‘ Immigrants , Emigrants And Me ’ had the band rip-roaring through some off-kilter funfair where all the rides were free and curfews and the like did not exist .
3 If the court on review believes that the requisite situation spoken of in the statute did not exist then the conclusion reached by the tribunal will be a nullity .
4 He also attempted to import Tel Quel 's conviction , derived from semiotics , that the hors-texte did not exist .
5 Such a brigade did not exist , but had been dreamed up by Brigadier Dudley Clark , who at the time was in charge of an outfit dealing with deception plans .
6 Counsel took the case on for nothing and , on appeal , the Divisional Court found that the crime did not exist .
7 The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’
8 As a self-sufficient economy we are spared the valuable advice of those we could have done without ; we do employ those we need where local capability does not exist ( medical staff , technicians , etc ) .
9 If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such .
10 What of our own , where initiation ritual does not exist ?
11 The concept of deeds or documents under seal does not exist in Hungarian law .
12 There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered .
13 Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist .
14 As far as they are concerned the future does not exist in any way , other than that they hope they wo n't live to have any part in it .
15 AIDS does not exist ’ and I would n't have noticed .
16 A biological case for ‘ true ’ altruism does not exist .
17 For them the vital issue of racial identity confusion does not exist .
18 For just as the properties of individuals are dependent on their social context , the set of social relations which constitutes a practice does not exist in isolation .
19 As far as he was concerned , homosexuality did not exist north of Hampstead ( or perhaps south of it , either ) and despite the fact that its local manifestation was sitting in front of him he would not be convinced .
20 Increased liquidity for investors provided by the Stock Exchange means that investors will accept lower returns for long-term investments than if the exchange did not exist .
21 Patriotism did not exist in spite of the inconveniences caused by the war , but because of them .
22 Much of what is now recognised as social work did not exist 30 or 40 years ago , and what did — child care work , work with mentally ill people and some other matters — was practised on a much smaller scale , away from the glare of the media .
23 It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development .
24 Morgan asserted , and McLennan denied , the existence of a first stage of society when social life was undifferentiated , when marriage did not exist , and when above all , private property did not occur .
25 The user has specified a preferred issue of a module but this issue does not exist in LIFESPAN .
26 This illustrates that the law does not exist simply for the protection of individuals , for if it did one would be able to refuse its help if one did not want it .
27 for Community law does not exist only in some faraway place but forms part of our national legal system .
28 The glass ceiling does not exist because they do n't let it .
29 You may think , for example , that this type does not exist and that it is inaccessible , not human , and that there is no such person as this , that it is utopian .
30 Thomas Judge does not exist . ’
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