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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the database contains pre-existing original works normal rules apply.
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In this kind of case, pre-existing acquaintances were invalidated.
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It also stops them refusing cover for more than a year to those with pre-existing conditions.
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On the one hand, nucleic acids arise only as copies of pre-existing nucleic acids.
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Replacive minerals grow, as their name suggests, in the place of pre-existing minerals and not into pore spaces.
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The Act effects several important changes to the pre-existing law.
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This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone, but is no more than a few metres thick at most.
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This division to some degree reflected the pre-existing division of opinion on the Poor Law and its desirable replacement.