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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a correlation exists between sth and sth
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A strong correlation exists between social class and exam success.
a gap exists
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A cultural gap exists between the older and the younger generations.
a need exists
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New teaching materials must be created if a need exists for them.
a possibility exists
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The possibility exists that he misunderstood the data.
a relationship exists
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No relationship exists between the size of the prison population and the level of crime.
an attitude exists
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This attitude no longer exists in the church.
an existing client (= one that you already have )
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We are very keen to keep our existing clients happy.
existing customers (= that you already have )
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We want to improve our service for both new and existing customers.
existing/current etc legislation
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The existing legislation may need to be amended.
God exists
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I believe that God exists.
live/exist on a diet of sth
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The people lived mainly on a diet of fish.
the current/existing lease
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The current lease still has 12 years to run.
the current/existing system
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The current system of taxation is unnecessarily complicated.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actually
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The illustrations were to be typical representations of ecosystems that actually exist with inhabitants adapted to live there.
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Does such a thing actually exist ?
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The car with those number plates actually exists .
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In the first place, Handy attributes more permanence to the professional core than actually exists .
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In Chapter 14 we explained why only a very limited set of future markets actually exists .
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Such a concept could not actually exist , because of the relative motion of all structures.
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The subsystems shown in Table 6.1 actually exist .
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The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist .
already
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The Product must already exist and must have been registered.
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This book is in-tended largely to call attention to this opportunity and to point to the consensus for action that already exists .
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The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that such a difference in metastability already exists in hepatic bile.
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Instead, he would pretend the books already existed , and write fictions around them.
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The old Louisiana State Home for Lepers already existed and was therefore available.
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Faculty examinations are unnecessary because there already exists a suitable alternative in the form of the IoT examination.
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Means already existed for the settlement of disputes.
always
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Such a motive had always existed throughout the world in business transactions.
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This dual-standard policy, however, had not always existed .
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But the possibility had always existed .
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No matter how democratic the society, they will always exist in some form.
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But the competition which has always existed between them is undeniable.
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Like numbers, it must always exist , and it can be the source of any actual universe.
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He had been right when he'd said there was no future - because the past would always exist .
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But if it had always existed , how could it have been created at a certain time, as revelation maintained?
in
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In 1935, when his first marriage had ceased to exist in all but name, he met Margaret Cairns White.
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When you have a film with magical elements, you are replicating the universe kids exist in .
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Most of the Western world's best sites have now been developed but potential still exists in less developed countries.
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An oligopoly exists in a market with just a few sellers.
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Action: Module X exists in more than one user-supplied file.
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All this existed in a state of nearly complete, if splendid, isolation.
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Both solids and liquids may exist in more than one phase.
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Thus the eye exists in a body with a central nervous system, capable of reacting to information the eye provides.
longer
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People somehow assume that petrol disappears when it is burned, or that rubbish no longer exists when it's incinerated.
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Further, the justification that channel scarcity requires the government to regulate the content of broadcasting no longer exists .
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The first piece of the Wall to be demolished by border guards no longer exists .
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Then, it was as if the children no longer existed .
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Ask the question: is it really true that the working class no longer exists ?
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Today, those kinds of jobs no longer exist .
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Reality no longer existed and time became suspended.
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Overall, there is about a 50 percent chance that the K / should no longer exist .
never
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The pod and chutes had disappeared as if they had never existed .
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It assumes a thoroughly rational environment-something that never exists in government.
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The stonework covered it completely, as if it had never existed .
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Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction.
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True love had never existed , except in her imagination.
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What is the Church saying to children when it declares that their families are based on a bond which never existed ?
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Or perhaps it had never existed .
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Goodrich allowed to exploit the 3-point shot that never existed in his career against an injury-ravaged Ron Harper.
only
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They exist only whilst the computer is turned on and the word-processing program is active.
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Government could derive its right to exist only from the consent of the governed.
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Each participant also behaves as if there exists only one presupposition pool shared by all participants in the discourse.
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We exist only in time defined by the West.
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For her other people only exist to help her reflect back well on herself.
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When humans die they are not reborn, but exist only as cold empty shadows.
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Parishes For local government purposes the parish had only existed within the boundaries of the former rural district councils.
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Spirituality does not exist only in ancient times, or in books.
really
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Of course, it is impossible to ask questions of characters who do not really exist .
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According to quantum theory, elementary particles do not really exist until an intelligent observer measures them.
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Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed .
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Do they really exist , and if so, where?
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I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist .
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First and above all, did it really exist ?
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Frank Griffith has made them wonder if the letters really exist .
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To say that the physical world is a theoretical construct is not to say that it does not really exist .
still
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Do any of these notes still exist ?
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And while full-service islands still exist , pumping your own is the method of choice.
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The wheel pit still exists although this has now been concreted up to the level of the existing floor.
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If a problem still exists , consult the Vice President for Research and Development.
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What is significant, however, is that few of the grant-aided organisations that we came from still exist today.
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The club still exists but the club no longer has a set of principles that tells it what to do.
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As this portrait indicates, Margaret Massingberd was largely responsible for creating much of the garden areas as they still exist today.
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But a shortage of 7000 bushels still exists at a price of $ 2.
there
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Although both look curved there exists a fundamental difference between them.
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With every formal organisation there exists , to a greater or lesser extent, a complex informal organisation.
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In addition to this flourishing political press there existed other influential papers.
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And the risks you have in mind will not exist there .
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Most agreed there existed a certain vacuum.
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According to the standard seventeenth-century view, there exist , independently of and antecedently to our perception of them, material bodies.
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In the adjacent valleys infilling occurred, with the consequent gradual burial of any sites which may have existed there .
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Along the tunnel there exist a few modest zones of safety.
■ NOUN
difference
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Subtle, definite differences exist in your pleasure and hers.
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Even when differences exist , the key is willingness to compromise.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that such a difference in metastability already exists in hepatic bile.
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Some difference of opinion exists as to the order of drugs to be administered.
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He emphasises the actual similarities in the pattern of bargaining despite the differences which exist in the formal structures.
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Not that racial and cultural differences can not exist .
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But there is a second, more local, level at which substantial differences exist in unemployment rates.
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None the less, it is clear that large differences between individuals exist .
evidence
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Much evidence now exists which shows that hypochlorites inhibit collagen synthesis and cause irreversible damage to the micro-circulation.
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Grand juries only determine whether sufficient evidence exists to justify an indictment.
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But Von Daniken, like others of his creed, believes that evidence of spacemen already exists on Earth.
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Much of this evidence exists in the myths.
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In Britain no systematic evidence exists of the role of governing bodies in reviewing the curriculum.
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Following this are stringing tables for 84 instruments for which fairly full evidence of original stringing exists .
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Experimental evidence also exists for the presence of axon reflexes in the alimentary canal.
form
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For the foreseeable future, occupational pension provision is likely to exist in some form .
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Since the budgets of all governmental agencies have the same general purpose, certain similarities exist in their forms .
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The number of information sources that exist only in electronic form continues to multiply.
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No matter how democratic the society, they will always exist in some form .
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In its life cycle the parasite exists in two forms or stages: cysts and trophozoites.
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Much of the work of later philosophers also exists in partial form only.
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High-speed trains operating on magnetic levitation exist in experimental form only.
opportunity
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But equipment will still be scarce in many places, and so the inequalities of opportunity that exist now will unfortunately remain.
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Many opportunities will exist for the most skilled, adaptable, and knowledgeable financial managers.
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If we are successful in identifying these the opportunities may exist to prevent a situation that is desperately difficult to cure.
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New opportunities will exist for people who really enjoy housecleaning to provide these services on a contract basis.
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Spinnys examine the job opportunities that actually exist and the benefits they have to offer.
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The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist .
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At the moment, this opportunity does no exist because there are still few qualified community interpreters.
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As seen from the following examples taken from the nascent Far East marketplace, numerous opportunities exist .
problem
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Is he further aware that a problem exists in finding suitable financial resources for nursery education?
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If a problem still exists , consult the Vice President for Research and Development.
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But, before you can find a solution, you first have to realise that a problem exists .
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They thought problems existed to be solved.
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Having made this assessment, the marketer should be aware of the potential problems which exist in communication within different cultures.
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Both theoretical and practical problems exist in fashioning out conceptual frameworks for the development of the continent.
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Were we to say nothing about it, or to ignore the problem that exists and the unrest in the black community?
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If a problem even exists , he said, it probably can be explained.
relationship
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What other relationships might exist between demographic and economic trends?
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When asked if such a relationship would have existed 30 years ago, Rev.
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The same relationship exists between particles and information when we come to talk about the velocity of light in general.
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Rather than the carpets, curtains and video, this refers to the quality of relationships which should exist between parents and children.
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What relationship exists between the painting and the vision of reality that the artist has before his eyes?
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It can be seen that the graph slopes up and although an exact relationship does not exist , a systematic ones does.
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A form of magic is involved that has to do with the relationship that exists between the different species.
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A related fundamental problem for empirical work in the elite theory tradition is the difficulty of demonstrating that a power relationship exists .
■ VERB
cease
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Indeed the psychiatric hospitals themselves may, in many areas, cease to exist .
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Or, in the extreme, the cigarette industry may cease to exist .
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If this power has been transferred elsewhere, meaningful accountability has ceased to exist .
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Indeed, the industry may cease to exist .
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Deep in her subconscious mind the image of Lotta became one-dimensional, faded, crumpled, ceased to exist .
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Young poultry is marketed at such an early age that these differences have practically ceased to exist . 8.
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From April 1988 the supplementary pension system will cease to exist and will be replaced by income support.
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And the local elected legislature will cease to exist .
continue
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Hence, corporate groups can continue to exist with separable SBUs and will not inevitably be broken up.
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The world awakens anew as a child is nurtured into it, because only in this way can humanity continue to exist .
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These were intensified by the fact that he had been accused of believing that the world would continue to exist for eternity.
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Iberian Motors executives could argue persuasively why foreign manufacturers should continue existing arrangements even in the absence of government requirements.
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So the district may continue to exist .
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Bob Bullock questioned whether it should continue to exist .
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Both the companies will continue to exist as independent companies.
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The child knows that objects are permanent and that they continue to exist even when they are not visible.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
there is/exists/remains etc
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Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
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Capital market theory implies that, for index futures, there is a risk premium.
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Each side then loses something if there is an attempt to meet at a mid-point.
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If you do manage to get him to go, there is drug treatment that could help.
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In forecasting the future there is no certainty.
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On one of them, Longstone Island, there is a lighthouse.
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This is a great loss, because at root there is an integral relation between the ideas of crime and morality.
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We have also noted that there is in practice little inter-observer variation in the scoring of verbal responses in these patients.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you think ghosts really exist ?
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Only about 50 Florida panthers are believed to exist .
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Poor families in our city are barely able to exist during the winter.
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The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever existed on earth.
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There now exists a significant body of scientific research on the subject.
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We can't continue to pretend that the problem of homelessness doesn't exist in this city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large body of theory and no small degree of controversy exist relative to the treatment of uncertainty.
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Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above, special circumstances may exist for the first two services.
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Just when did this revolution occur and in fact did information exist before its arrival in electronic form?
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Once again, in other words, Carter was seeing dangers that did not exist , while ignoring those that did.
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They also, to a greater or lesser extent, existed outside mainstream, predominantly male controlled, hierarchical structures.
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Whereas, in fact, many of the longest-lasting marriages are those between people who exist in perpetual conflict.