Sentence examples for to exist mainly from inspiring English sources

Up to now, such features were thought to exist mainly on the far northerly Antarctic Peninsula (upper left).

Their report examined franchise contracts at 40 companies, and concluded that the no-poach agreements appeared to exist mainly to limit competition and turnover.

One of its side projects Mr Williams loves side projects so much that his main projects seem to exist mainly as placeholders was something called Twitter.

Some old laws now seem to exist mainly to amuse those combing through the statute book for curiosities such as the ban on the use of "any slide upon ice or snow in any street or other thoroughfare".

Among the prepared compounds, only one was found to exist mainly in the enol form in nonpolar solvents and the keto form in protic solvents, whereas the others are exclusively present in the enol forms regardless of solvent polarity.

Phillips's poems are about the "daily practice" of writing poems, to adapt a phrase from the painter Gerhard Richter; like some of Richter's canvases, Phillips's poems often seem to exist mainly to capture the small changes in ambience in a room where one makes art.

Maybe those vaunted connections to Brahms exist mainly in the minds of musicologists.

To the contrary, they usually exist mainly to manage legacy businesses, to defend and extend them.

The other characters, in thrall to his power, exist mainly as fodder; Caligula has to be astonishing.

The attacks in Paris were carried out by militants who belonged to a floating population of Isis followers, subjects who are scattered among dozens of countries and whose attachments to the group exist mainly online.

And as usual the shoot 'em ups exist mainly to add context to the sex songs and club tracks that are the main source of his popularity.