The phrase "an existing element that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific component or part that is already present in a particular context or system.
Example: "The software update will enhance an existing element that contributes to the overall user experience."
Alternatives: "a current component that" or "a pre-existing factor that".
"You take existing elements that have to be there anyway and harden them," said David J. Jehn, deputy executive director of franchises, concessions and consents in the Transportation Department.
It seems particularly useful that alongside custom elements (aka Component Directives), they have kept the ability to mix-in a behaviour into an existing element (using a Decorator Directive).
There are hundreds of LEGO conventions every year, all around the world, showcasing new ways of using existing elements that we as a company have never thought about.
First and foremost, the glaring lack of an effective peace process for Darfur calls out for greater U.S. leadership in constructing from the existing elements a revitalized process that has the chance of ending Darfur's war.
Our proposed strategy does not contain new methodological elements, but organizes existing elements in a way that is tailored to pragmatic clinical practice.
KSR refused to pay on the ground that Teleflex had combined existing elements in an obvious manner and that its patent was therefore invalid.
It has a handful of throwback elements, including an existing warehouse that will be incorporated into the left-field stands.
However, we cannot exclude that the deletion has created a new regulatory element, or relocated an existing sequence that can function as a tissue-specific silencer.
The law that the magistrates applied probably consisted of three elements: (1) an existing mercantile law that was used by the Mediterranean traders; (2) those institutions of the Roman law that, after being purged of their formalistic elements, could be applied universally to any litigant, Roman or foreigner; and (3) in the last resort, a magistrate's own sense of what was fair and just.
