They reported being interested in what was being offered without having any pre-existing intention to take up these offers.
It is assumed that the reader understands these pre-existing categories.
This included oral musical cultures, which are often defined more by performance than by pre-existing repertoire or rigid rules.
It was not until the start of the twenty-first century that electronic music reasserted itself as something outside of the pre-existing rules of functionality.
At the same time they overlay and reinforce a pre-existing musical binary - the primacy of the lead vocal over the ' subservient' backing chorus - instrumental accompaniment.
Such accounts depend on the concept of language as a pre-existing system which defines these alternatives before any utterance is produced.
In other words, holding pre-existing individual and environmental attributes constant, merely going to the polls increases one's chance of returning.
It is a pre-existing bus with a well-defined payload capacity.