Example sentences of "do not exist " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 2 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 3 | In 1980 , luxury trains like the Royal Scotsman and the Venice Simplon Orient Express did not exist . |
| 4 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 5 | The Department of Employment said that the licence she wanted did not exist . |
| 6 | The supposed principle did not exist . |
| 7 | The fraud involved creation of false profits and stocks in the books over a seven-year period through use of purported contracts , which in reality did not exist , with third world countries . |
| 8 | As part of a sexual sub-culture which conservative America would rather did not exist — but fears to attack in the open — Mapplethorpe was an obvious target for the new Know Nothings . |
| 9 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 10 | We engaged in the game of looking for something which did not exist . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For Marx , what was most important in the gens is that it was a group based totally on communal principles , where individuality and selfishness did not exist and where private property had not begun to appear . |
| 13 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern had been about to say ‘ the bunker , ’ the stretch of waste land behind Friedrichstrasse where , in his concrete tomb , as the Russians had battered their way into the city in 1945 , Hitler had lived his final appalling fantasy ; commanding armies which did not exist , so condemning thousands , hundreds of thousands of civilians to death in those final lunatic days . |
| 15 | For Mrs Bujok it was argued that the 1936 Act was designed to secure in the interests of the community at large that statutory nuisances did not exist . |
| 16 | But ‘ zero ’ refers to the communist era , when unemployment officially did not exist . |
| 17 | Synergies from diversification did not exist . |
| 18 | Fuelled by fear , soured by defeat and reinforced by Dulles 's essential ingredient , self-righteousness , the American inquisitors devoted themselves single-mindedly to unmasking a conspiracy which did not exist . |
| 19 | Before his appearance in Arcady , he simply did not exist . |
| 20 | Today the Court has acquired a spectral sort of quality , as if the 447 appointments divided among the offices of the Lord Chamberlain ( sixty-seven ) , the Queen 's household ( fifty-two ) , the Privy Purse and Treasurer 's office ( twenty-eight ) , the Ecclesiastical household ( fifty-six ) , the Medical household ( fifteen ) , the household in Scotland ( forty-eight ) , the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood ( forty-six ) , the Royal Company of Archers ( thirty-two ) , the households of Prince Philip ( ten ) , of the Queen Mother ( twenty-five ) , of the Prince and Princess of Wales ( sixteen ) , and all the households of other members of the family ( a further fifty-two ) did not exist . |
| 21 | This of course creates things which did not exist , and which owe some part of their character to the intruding anthropologist . |
| 22 | Officially , Anna Charsky did not exist . |
| 23 | ( In fact the Council was confined to England and Wales and did not exist in Scotland . ) |
| 24 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 25 | When the Battle of the Somme began , Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia did not exist ; Hungary was twice its present size and Austria was the centre of a ramshackle empire which had lasted for centuries . |
| 26 | The most important lesson I learned , in retrospect , from the failure of Lord Leverhulme 's attempt to industrialise Lewis was that the conflict between crofting and industry which he saw , and the government saw , and which wrecked his plans , did not exist . |
| 27 | Bean 's ( 1980 ) typology of doctor — patient interaction showed that , under the 1959 Act , voluntary admission occurred when there was agreement between doctor and patient on the patient 's sick role or where , although agreement did not exist , the patient acquiesced and accepted this role . |
| 28 | While in Germany ‘ there is much common ground between the Bundesbank and the government on economic objectives ’ , it is precisely because Pöhl knew that this national consensus did not exist in the Community at large that he and the German government insisted on means of enforcing German policies on the economies of the member states . |
| 29 | Certainly , central banking was markedly different from our own day and monetary policy did not exist as an instrument of economic policy . |
| 30 | For Locke the separate compartments for faith and reason , or reason and revelation , did not exist . |