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