noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deny the existence of sth
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The government has denied the existence of any political prisoners in the country.
God’s existence/the existence of God
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Philosophers argued about the existence of God.
God’s existence/the existence of God
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Philosophers argued about the existence of God.
humdrum existence/job/life etc
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the prisoners’ humdrum routine
lead...existence
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They lead a nomadic existence .
lonely life/existence
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He led a lonely life with few friends.
prove the existence of sth
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These pictures do not prove the existence of water on Mars.
the very existence of sth
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If the new project fails, it could threaten the very existence of the company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
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If you were not aware of its existence before, you will be now!
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The narrator can't be sure but guesses he wasn't even aware of the existence of the flowers.
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Geologists are aware of the existence of 2000 or more minerals with an amazing variety of properties.
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Sellers should be aware of their existence , for sometimes their effect can be devastating.
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The important point is that librarians may at least be aware of its existence .
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Maybe they are aware of our existence but don't want to reveal themselves to us.
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It is to be regretted that so few people in the county are aware of its existence .
continued
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The importance that the New Critics attribute to meaning and to vision necessitates the continued existence of the author.
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The issues raised are fundamental, casting doubt on the continued existence of member states in their present form.
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Which raised the problem of my own continued existence .
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Derek's father never recovered from this loss and refused to acknowledge the younger child's previous or continued existence .
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So the continued existence of the species, Man, remains in doubt.
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For Franco, the most problematical feature within the Nationalist zone was the continued existence of independent and competing political movements.
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They multiply this benefit by the likelihood that their personal contribution to the interest group will determine its success or continued existence .
human
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To human beings the existence of exploitative relations of production would be agonizing were they perceived simply as exploitative.
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It was so big and so full of edibles that I recognized it as the true cathedral to human existence .
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For the majority of human existence , therefore, only archaeological evidence can give clues about the past.
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For as we noted in the introduction, the job is not a timeless fact of human existence .
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Not so in the United States, where the very definition of human existence is the bread and butter of political debate.
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The three faiths all taught profoundly skeptical views of human existence .
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He would lie abed in the darkened dormitory, sensing a sloshing sea of human and mutant existence surrounding him.
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All of human existence was no more than a huge address book.
independent
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But the object of parenthood was just this, to fit your children for an independent existence .
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Moreover, we must not forget that the 895 phonetics identified by Soothill have an independent existence .
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It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart.
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A similar trend is also developing whereby parents sell their home when their children have established an independent existence .
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In the process of transmission the message does not have an independent existence .
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Congress once had an independent existence .
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It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence .
mere
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For Oakeshott the authority of respublica does not arise from the mere existence of a rule of recognition.
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Whybrew, at 79, is still very much alive and feeling lucky, but for reasons richer than mere existence .
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Chopra had felt pain; the pain of mere existence .
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What these entities ultimately accomplish may be academic; but their mere existence should give doomsayers cause for hope.
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But it is clear that the mere existence of an alternative remedy does not oust judicial review.
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The mere existence of unsolved puzzles within a paradigm does not constitute a crisis.
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But the mere existence of such contacts did not mean very much.
very
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He also recognises that in a free society values may develop which are alien to its very existence .
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First, there is the obvious point that the very existence of private legislation procedure may not necessarily be recognised.
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Its birthday - its very existence - is being celebrated in a new book by Susan Basnett.
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The very existence of such a fund serves to emphasise the inequity of the present law.
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By its very existence it would start to replace the existing faiths.
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One would have thought that its very existence would be some sort of deterrent.
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So, for example, the very existence of a product range is, in itself, a selling point for a product.
■ VERB
acknowledge
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Yet when we are involved personally we are forced to acknowledge their existence and to try to understand them.
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Last September, seeking to strengthen his growing congregation and acknowledge its existence in the community at large, Rev.
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Weber acknowledged their existence but did not discuss them.
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Men who had recently found it difficult to acknowledge his existence now sought his advice.
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When he did acknowledge her existence he talked in dismissive and unrealistic terms.
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It was the only time that Father acknowledged the existence of spirits.
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He made it clear he could never acknowledge my existence to his family and I didn't expect him to.
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Dear Harsnet, he wrote, why do you persist in this rigmarole of refusing even to acknowledge my existence ?
bring
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Zeus brings into existence and controls what he has created.
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It is brought into existence precisely to enable a specific purpose to be realised.
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Is the ultimate unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence ?
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One has to bring into existence a latent power capable of doing this.
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What's more, you see, Jed's group is on the point of bringing Satan into corporeal existence .
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Unemployment has played a crucial role both in bringing the underclass into existence and to locking it in place.
come
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But another kind of question is how the complicated thing came into existence in the first place.
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Only when the very complicated structure of the brain exists will smells come into existence .
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Do, Aristotle asked, all the parts of the embryo come into existence together, or do they appear in succession?
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The work of Wordsworth came into existence at the same time as the growing desperation in the cotton mills.
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Gerry: It's really strange how the special interest groups of oppressed people came into existence .
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The universe just came into existence by chance, for no reason, and that is that.
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The words came into existence but not before he had analysed, accepted them, agreed to make them real.
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Since deregulation in 1979, dozens of airlines have gone out of business and dozens more have come into existence .
confirm
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The chief means of proactive enforcement is routine sampling, which will bring to light or confirm the existence of persistent pollutions.
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It was the medium through which he perceived his own soul, the formula through which he could confirm his own existence .
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In fieldwork, you are really looking for anything that might confirm the existence of a ley.
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Because Burns refused to discuss intelligence issues, he did not confirm or deny the existence of the intelligence report.
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Dozens of eyewitness accounts confirmed the existence of these discreet departures to destinations far from Kosovo.
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The developments remain top secret and no-one from the factory or the team would confirm or deny the existence of the kit.
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It is equally important that the practice of not confirming or denying the existence of a warrant is maintained consistently.
continue
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Similar advantages to the continued existence of other sorts of transposable element will probably turn up when people start looking in detail.
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Pastor Braun was periodically called to Berlin to justify the continued existence of the Institution and its inmates.
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I didn't see it as a choice between that and continuing an illegal existence .
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The infant can not continue its own existence without dependence on others.
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Acquiescence in the continued existence of these weapons is intolerable.
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Groups in other countries are known to have continued in existence for many years.
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Because I think the Net fundamentally undermines the continued existence of the nation-state, which is already past its economic usefulness.
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They note the continued existence of large numbers of low-paying, low-skill jobs.
deny
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Few would deny the existence of class differences.
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It is perhaps no wonder that young botanists and foresters deny its existence .
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No doubt this is the truth on which Hume relied in denying the existence of the Self as commonly conceived.
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The organization may simply deny the existence of these consequences or look on them as the inevitable costs of doing business.
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How can a child or young person immediately grieve for some one who denies their existence in that way?
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Because Burns refused to discuss intelligence issues, he did not confirm or deny the existence of the intelligence report.
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So the idea is that you have to pretend not to have periods, deny their existence .
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No universe is possible that denies the existence of that mind.
justify
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Tory Trotskyism wants to create the revolutionary conditions that will justify its existence .
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Pastor Braun was periodically called to Berlin to justify the continued existence of the Institution and its inmates.
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Since the cold war ended, many state intelligence agencies have struggled to justify their existence .
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Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can....
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Is necessity the test that critics must meet to justify their existence ?
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In ideas, our movement has been very productive, more than justifying its existence by this alone.
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We had to work hard to justify our existence .
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If its artists were consistently fresh and challenging, it would justify its existence easily.
lead
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Durkheim was a very austere man who led a rigidly timetabled existence and refused to talk to his family except at mealtimes.
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My several lives were often incompatible, and I led a schizophrenic existence .
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Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned, and enjoyed it to the full.
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Yet the whole history of evolution seems superbly well designed to lead to the existence of consciousness.
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By leading a solitary existence , he avoids competing with the females that he has fertilised.
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Thus he is forced to lead a clandestine existence , abandoned only when he occasionally reappears to demand money from his wife.
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However, in early days he seems to have led a sunny existence .
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For many years a companionate relationship may exist between two generations of adults in a family, each leading an independent existence .
live
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We live so isolated an existence here that to me it seems quite odd.
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George W.. Bush is living a charmed existence .
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The larvae live in kin groups and are aposematic, while the adults disperse to live a solitary existence and are cryptic.
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How could she go on living such an existence ?
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He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse.
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Ken, meanwhile, was living a more abstemious existence on stage.
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Therefore, in the bleak aftermath of war, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London.
owe
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It owes its existence to copper, which was discovered in the surrounding Mule Mountains in 1875.
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Yet in a very real way, we all owe our existence to the absence of choice available to our ancestors.
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The concession theory regards the company as owing its existence to an exercise of state power.
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I owe my existence to their absence of choice, as, almost certainly, does everyone reading this.
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A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association.
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Some of the wildlife of the water-mill may owe its existence to a rather more conscious decision on the part of some long-dead miller.
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There are other conceptions of consciousness which also owe their existence to the pursuit of certain virtues.
prove
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So much for proving the existence of John Doe No. 2.
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Let him prove his existence to you.
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One does not need a council in order to prove the existence of well-established areas such as Lancashire or Somerset.
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This is an interesting theorem which seems to prove the existence of singularities for a large class of colliding plane waves.
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It was an exercise to prove the existence of a Nonconformist unity which only came into existence by the exercise.
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Evidence can thereby be admitted to prove or disprove the existence of the element which has been deemed jurisdictional.
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The perfection of life has often been used to prove the existence of a Creator.
threaten
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Deny or threaten it, and you deny and threaten some one's existence .
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Indeed, in the long term, provider networks may threaten the very existence of HMOs as they are now known.
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Wider reality would threaten their existence .
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In other words, failure on one new project could threaten the very existence of the company.
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The thought of our own guilt threatens our very existence .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eke out a living/existence
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Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
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Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.
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Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.
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I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
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Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.
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Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.
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She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.
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The elderly eke out a living on pensions averaging from $ 50 to $ 75 monthly.
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The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
spring into existence/being
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Finally new businesses do not spring into existence simply because taxes are reduced in a given area.
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Here, a fast, sparkling fresh stream springs into existence, fords a lane and runs parallel to a wooden pathway.
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It may be possible to think of a universe springing into existence out of nothing at all.
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Louis, have sprung into being.
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The nurse's soft, slightly damp touch faded and darkness sprang into being inside Chesarynth's head.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Elena faced a lonely existence in the big city.
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For the first time she began to doubt the existence of God.
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The workers lived a miserable existence and were treated like serfs.
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Today there are less than 100 copies of the book still in existence .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Culture is derived as a historical force prior to the existence of any individual subject, but is only realizable through agency.
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It's not that my family deliberately kept Fred's existence a secret.
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It also exposes the fallacy of thinking that every possible world might come into existence sooner or later.
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It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years, if not centuries.
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It is the fastest, most effective way to build muscles in existence .
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One consequence of reflection is the existence of standing waves on the line.
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Sovereigns are born for an active life, and not for an idle or contemplative existence .
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The existence of such systems is less important than the fact that they are technically feasible and get reported as such.