adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
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
already
▪ However, a real plant will be constrained by the amount of already existing plant material and its needs.
▪ In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road.
▪ We are considering the effect of increasing an already existing corporate tax.
▪ Does this also mean that a different kind of art history will be added to that already existing in the West?
▪ We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services.
▪ Evolution proceeds by the accidental combination of already existing stable sub-assemblies, thereby producing new stable assemblies of higher complexity.
▪ The second involves conversion of already existing paper documents into a format that the computer can process. 1.2.1.
■ NOUN
building
▪ The work was carried out during the period 1980-1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition.
▪ Alifabs Ambassador extruded aluminium fascia gutter and rainwater system is the design ideal for both new and existing buildings.
▪ A more plausible alternative was the renovation of existing buildings, some of which had originally been solid structures.
▪ The regulations also apply to new buildings and alterations and extensions of existing buildings.
▪ All existing buildings should also be seen as a potential resource.
▪ However, where a company is involved in small works or renovation of existing buildings, it may be essential.
▪ It proved to planners and developers that modern, desirable office accommodation could be provided in existing buildings.
▪ The new provisions for smoke detectors will be enforced by each local authority, as part of its existing Building Control function.
business
▪ But the existing business organization has a great many middle-management positions that are supposed to prepare and test a person.
▪ Its strategy is to acquire engineering companies in niche markets and dispose of existing businesses to reduce borrowings.
▪ This addition complements Labspace's existing business in the manufacture of lab furniture, fume cupboards and associated equipment.
▪ Now we are trying to target some of the 8,000 existing businesses who should be looking to use our facilities.
▪ So no existing business was split.
▪ That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it.
▪ There will also be a daily session introducing franchising as a way to expand an existing business or develop a new venture.
▪ Most investors in any industry have preferred to build new factories rather than take over existing businesses.
customer
▪ Again, 3i differs here in that 35% of all the money it invests goes to its existing customer base.
▪ For existing customers the offer is worth up to £500.
▪ Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers.
▪ They can sell this package to their existing customers.
▪ It means offering existing customers the new model two weeks before they seek a replacement from your competitors.
▪ Upgrades are available for existing customers.
▪ Upgrades are free to existing customer with maintenance agreements.
▪ Under the deal, S &038; N will continue to sell and distribute Nivea to existing customers for the next 10 years.
facility
▪ Adult educators in all sectors have attempted to make access to existing facilities easier; and/or special programmes have been developed.
▪ In practice these allocations reflected the scale of existing facilities and their resident populations.
▪ Investment to both upgrade existing facilities and extend our range of services has therefore been made to strengthen our position.
▪ All rural settlements in the areas were classified according to their size, existing facilities and the scope for further development.
▪ The irony being, of course, that climbing on the new wall would be considerably safer than soloing on the existing facilities.
▪ For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand.
▪ They feel that these systems are expensive and unnecessary, especially since they undermine firms' existing facilities for small orders.
▪ It is currently committed to a multi-million pound improvement programme involving new plant and upgrading existing facilities.
knowledge
▪ The project will build upon existing knowledge in the following ways.
▪ Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible.
▪ Much of our existing knowledge has been gathered from descriptive studies which lack controls and proper sampling procedures.
▪ An attempt can be made to relate new information to existing knowledge.
▪ Gaps in our existing knowledge will be highlighted.
▪ The Cobe evidence will flesh out the skeleton of existing knowledge and allow astronomers to begin to chose between competing cosmological theories.
▪ First, it will clarify and consolidate existing knowledge about the role of the Treasury in public policy-making.
▪ The film should reinforce existing knowledge and then introduce further topics, concepts and principles.
law
▪ Most such attempts, it concluded, are actually perpetrated by authorised users, and can usually be covered by existing law.
▪ This probably repeats the existing law.
▪ The existing law stated that only those who had been granted citizenship would be enfranchised.
▪ This probably changes the existing law, making the offence more difficult to prove.
▪ Governments - extending regulations to cover more corporate activities either through new laws or tougher enforcement of existing laws.
▪ Under existing law only victims of racial discrimination were eligible for such damages.
▪ It is sometimes said that judges are entitled to make extrajudicial statements critical of the existing law and advocating reform.
▪ The existing law is riddled with loopholes and anomalies.
legislation
▪ In the meantime, existing legislation applies.
▪ So let us have no talk of building on the existing legislation.
▪ The Assembly passed a law on civil aviation and amended existing legislation on export-import taxes.
▪ Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit, to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation.
▪ It has made it quite clear that it believes that the existing legislation can deal with such matters.
▪ The existing legislation on fringe benefits was to be repealed.
▪ The Bill, which will become law in 1992, makes the existing legislation on selling cigarettes to the under-16s more effective.
▪ Programmes of a racist nature, in keeping with existing legislation, are prohibited.
policy
▪ It seeks to assess the position of existing policies and to identify possible policy initiatives.
▪ We are making arrangements to delete it from existing policies.
▪ Innovative policies during the campaign raise doubts over existing policies, and raise questions over why reforms weren't introduced earlier.
▪ That is to say, policy changes more frequently take the form of relatively marginal changes to existing policies.
▪ Rather, they accept existing policy instruments as given and make additions or subtractions from them.
▪ The existing policy is one of seeking abortion on demand, up to the point of birth and without legal or medical restriction.
▪ Issues relating to the efficacy or the alignments of new or existing policies were not discussed.
▪ Government officials have acknowledged that existing policies to limit acidic emissions - notably of sulphur dioxide - are inadequate.
product
▪ Any future reference to this Product must be made by either the existing Product identifier or this new title.
▪ Even to the extent of formulating new or repackaging existing products to suit specific requirements.
▪ To use an existing product, use option 5.4.4 - View Product Titles, to view the names of all existing products.
▪ A listing of all existing product names can be obtained using option 5.4.4 - View Product Titles.
▪ Other products are treated in the same way, building up a graph of the aggregate sales of existing products.
▪ Enter an existing product identifier in the range 1000 - 999999.
▪ Between this line and that representing the sales of existing products there is now a gap.
service
▪ A new service would have to be funded by the Exchequer, not local government using existing services.
▪ The grant was established two years ago to kick-start developments and not to replace funding of existing services.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ However, it was also realised that existing service provision did not always meet clients' needs.
▪ However, we have inherited such a legacy and we need, too, to work with existing services.
▪ I hope that they will not be interpreted as questioning the adequacy of existing services.
▪ Third, the range of existing services seems unable to cope with the demand.
▪ There may be opportunities to rent out existing service property or surplus service property.
staff
▪ However, in general, new employees receive some elements of the expenses package given to existing staff.
▪ Help from existing staff should also be sought in publicising the availability of the news-sheet.
▪ Determine how skills can be obtained and take executive action either to recruit or to develop existing staff.
▪ The supervision will be carried out by existing staff within their normal duties.
▪ It is followed by guidance on how to make the best use of existing staff.
▪ Governing bodies will still be subject to the local and national agreements enshrined in existing staff contracts.
▪ With recruitment, too, comes the opportunity for redeploying existing staff soas to widen experience.
▪ The employment of qualified staff and the release of existing staff to vocational training courses.
stock
▪ The range and quality of the existing stock is also an important factor.
▪ Since it does this without increasing the money supply, it is raising the velocity of the existing stock.
▪ Sanctions meant he could no longer import spares but the value of his existing stock had increased tenfold.
▪ The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner.
▪ First, weeding of existing stock.
▪ Housing issues in the 1970s were more concerned with existing stock than with new developments.
▪ Weeding, and examination of existing stock 3.
structure
▪ Reform would need to be deep rooted, but existing structures could be modified.
▪ He added the scheme contravened existing structure plans and traffic risk fears had been voiced by local residents.
▪ For the Trinity chapel beyond the presbytery, William was unhampered by an existing structure.
▪ The new accommodation is on one floor, set round a pretty courtyard which echoes the traditional details of the existing structure.
▪ The focal point of this existing structure is the school's policymaking group: The management board.
▪ It should be remembered that the canal engineers had very few existing structures from which to obtain ideas.
▪ To achieve profound change, women must necessarily work within the existing structure.
▪ A gene has the particular effect that it does only because there is an existing structure upon which to work.
system
▪ Its acceptance will be helped by the pragmatic approach that Tao Systems is taking in integrating its baby with existing systems.
▪ Agents and exporters should therefore treat them as within the existing system, and include T2 documents where appropriate.
▪ Bright images have become an accepted advantage of the existing system and the new design increases the brightness even further.
▪ Adding depreciation accounting to the existing system has, in the past, not been affordable.
▪ Geoff Cox shows how to add a second hard drive to your existing system.
▪ Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system.
▪ Rather it is usual to claim objective virtues for the existing system which would be lost by a change from it.
▪ Sukarno Preaches Politics of Consensus During 1956 dissatisfaction with the existing system simmered and eventually boiled.
use
▪ The basis of valuation was the rights' economic value in their existing use within the group's business.
▪ In order to do this health authorities must have comprehensive information about the existing use of health care.
▪ This may often be the avowed policy, but the planning acts explicitly permit the continuance of existing uses.
▪ It is essential that existing use of the line is not only maintained but increased.
▪ Local councils, housing associations, and self-help groups should be enabled to buy suitable land for building at existing use value.
▪ They can interfere with existing uses and revoke a permission already given, even if the development has actually been carried out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Forbes suggests getting rid of the existing tax system.
▪ Many people feel that the existing law discriminates against women.
▪ The existing building is too small, and there are plans to replace it within the next five years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All rural settlements in the areas were classified according to their size, existing facilities and the scope for further development.
▪ Certainly, positivism did also produce social determinist critiques of the existing order.
▪ In such cases a clean break at 16+ removed many existing constraints and frustrations.
▪ It is vital to have accurate knowledge of existing air quality, yet in practice, problems arise.
▪ On the other hand, there were grave limitations in using existing adult education institutions for radical education and action.
▪ Other new items added to existing ranges were also included in the Spring Launch.
▪ The existing research has also been conducted after the new technology has been installed.
▪ This fear of fear will both provoke further symptoms as well as preventing the existing ones from diminishing naturally.