Example sentences of "exist at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , therefore , the PLO exists at all levels of organisation within the occupied territories . |
| 2 | Against the background of this account of perception as something indirect , with ideas figuring as intermediaries between our minds and material things , Malebranche discusses what reason we have for our usual supposition that the material world exists at all . |
| 3 | That the building exists at all is a wonder , as it was very badly damaged in World War II . |
| 4 | The dividing line here is a tenuous one if it exists at all . |
| 5 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 6 | Incidentally there is no problem in proving the uniqueness of the positive gcd — given that a gcd actually exists at all . |
| 7 | A job function might be regarded as essential if performance of the function is the reason the position exists at all ; or performance could only be re-distributed amongst a limited number of employees ; or the position has to be filled by someone with particular expertise or ability to perform what is a highly specialised function . |
| 8 | There is training , though not enough , available at considerable expense to staff working for NGOs , but training for volunteers is patchy and unsystematic , where it exists at all . |
| 9 | Because the rain blew in gusts , the doors were usually closed and the glass clouded and wept , and the world closed in and nothing existed at all except a diseased crew , buffeted and windswept , butting their way through the void . |
| 10 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 11 | I suppose the main reason was that I was so astonished to find that they existed at all . |
| 12 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 13 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 14 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 15 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 16 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 17 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |
| 18 | On a further appeal to the Privy Council the Board held that , if jurisdiction existed at all , it must have been under a section of the relevant Bahamas legislation ( section 23 of the Court of Appeal Act ( Statute Law of the Bahama Islands , 1965 rev. , c. 34 ) ) which provided : |
| 19 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 20 | Genuine republican feeling , in so far as it existed at all in the major States , was a nostalgia or very occasionally an aspiration , never a programme . |
| 21 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 22 | First , there is the consideration that we are dealing with a phase of human ego-evolution in which language probably barely existed at all and in which a sophisticated awareness of inner conflicts — what today we would call insight — could barely have existed either ( indeed , as we shall see later on , it is doubtful to what extent it exists even today ! ) . |
| 23 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 24 | In other words , the fact that the speculative bubble' existed at all suggests possible short-term inefficiency , but the ‘ correction ’ could suggest that markets are , in the long term , efficient . |
| 25 | Because the total numbers of animals on islands tend to be small , large predators in general find it impossible to exist at all — except , of course , for creatures such as seals and sealions , which feed at sea and come ashore only to breed or bask . |
| 26 | It is always possible that when you do the job specification of a long-standing job you will decide the job does not really need to exist at all ! |
| 27 | In several places the road simply ceased to exist at all — there were cliffs , a hole 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep . |
| 28 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 29 | He entered in the midst of a raging dispute about whether the endowment deserved to exist at all . |
| 30 | The fiduciary relationship , if it is to exist at all , must accommodate itself to the terms of the contract so that it is consistent with , and conforms to , them . |