Sentence examples for it exists formally from inspiring English sources

"The sun as it exists objectively is able to represent the sun as it exists formally in the heavens precisely because it is the same thing that has these two different modes of existence" (Hoffman 202, p, 168).

[Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (1938: 75 76)] "Real contact occurs in some entity which truly and formally exists in things; for the contact itself is real, and properly and formally exists in reality; therefore it occurs in some real entity which formally exists in the thing; and yet it occurs in an indivisible thing; therefore such an indivisible entity exists formally in the thing itself".

Detailed inspection of the hydrogen-bonding network involving the ε-amino group of Lys132 (Figure 6A) suggests that this group exists formally in the unprotonated NH2 state and is the donor in hydrogen-bond interactions with the 2'-hydroxyl group of the nicotinamide-ribose and the backbone carbonyl oxygen of residue 110.

In Bobo-Dioulasso these types of services do not exist, formally or informally (see Figure  2).

Like all private enterprises of Mr X's company's size, this enterprise does not formally exist, or to be more precise, it exists as a state-owned enterprise, in which Mr X is merely a CEO.

You exist, therefore it exists.

It exists because people say it exists.

It exists.

You exist, thus it exists.

It existed.

WHATWG sees the Web as an evolving, living platform; the W3C exists to formally recommend certain things.