Example sentences of "which [vb mod] in principle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies . |
| 2 | As a rule , people do not hear single isolated words , and in the great majority of cases any word we hear is preceded by a context which could in principle be used to assist word recognition . |
| 3 | In the process , the project should generate an appropriate framework for thinking about the provision of business support services which could in principle be applied to any locality . |
| 4 | Under Bloch 's type of analysis , the statement that Hemingway uses " short sentences amounts to a claim that the average length of a Hemingway sentence is shorter ( to a significant extent ) than the average length of an English sentence : something which can in principle be verified or falsified . |
| 5 | The overall strength and functional characteristics of a promoter will depend on the efficiency of the steps leading to the formation of each of these complexes , all of which can in principle act as a bottle-neck . |
| 6 | Resource owners ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities consumers will buy and of the relative prices which can in principle be obtained for these commodities gradually diminishes . |