Example sentences of "can [prep] principle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracting out makes it possible to transfer those problems to others , who can in principle be fairly tightly controlled through contracts . |
| 2 | Searle presented his argument , which attacks the basic tenet of artificial intelligence that machines can in principle understand symbols and signalled events much as we do , in the form of an analogy in a much-quoted paper : ‘ Minds , brains and programmes ’ ( Behavioural and Brain Sciences , vol 3 , p 417 ) . |
| 3 | Conclusions emerging from conceptual evaluation : types of drill can in principle be associated with types of meaning . |
| 4 | The Bank of England places restrictions as to size , etc , on SCP issuers , but any company listed on the International Stock Exchange or USM that has net assets of over £25m can in principle issue SCP . |
| 5 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 6 | One is to put meaning sternly aside and concentrate on behaviour , on the ground that science must stick to what can in principle be tested against experience and observation . |
| 7 | A classical physicist can decide at the beginning of an experiment to call that electron over there A and this one over here B. Subsequently they may interact and go through all sorts of complicated convolutions , but because he can in principle follow the motion the classical physicist 's labels have an abiding significance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such tariff structures are widely used ( consider , for example , telephone charges ) and can in principle lead to outcomes superior to straightforward average cost pricing . |
| 10 | Such a target can in principle help in controlling the industry 's activities , though we should recall that if managers were social welfare maximizing , the constraint would be superfluous . |
| 11 | But there are good reasons for a principled limitation to linguistic contexts : first , the relation between a lexical item and extralinguistic contexts is often crucially mediated by the purely linguistic contexts ( consider the possible relations between horse and the extra-linguistic situation in That 's a horse and There are no horses here ) ; second , any aspect of an extra-linguistic context can in principle be mirrored linguistically ; and , third , linguistic context is more easily controlled and manipulated . |
| 12 | Thus , occurrences in [ I ] have to be excluded from the main quantification , and the ( get ) subset , provided that we can accurately specify its membership , can in principle be quantified separately as a set of lexical alternants of the ( pull ) type ( 2b ) . |
| 13 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 14 | ( That is why this journal has consistently argued for a redirection of commission funds towards basic research , for the sake of the skill it can in principle provide . ) |
| 15 | The thought is presumably that , whereas at present any monopoly or complex monopoly situation can in principle be referred to the MMC , under an Article 86-type policy there would have to be prima facie evidence of abuse . |
| 16 | Vertical restraints imposed by the manufacturer can in principle control all these problems or deal with the externalities involved . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The world , it is argued , can in principle be described without using any " pluralistically committed " terms at all . |
| 19 | But nothing can alter the fact that all propositions about experiences can in principle be paraphrased into propositions about certain neuro-physiological events — if not without any sacrifice of meaning , then certainly without any loss of truth . |
| 20 | Only differences between classes of individuals can in principle be attributed to a single cause . |
| 21 | But if an entrepreneur perceives the possibility of gaining profit by offering to buy at a price attractive to sellers and by offering to sell at a price attractive to buyers , the opportunities he thus offers to the market can in principle be made available by anyone . |
| 22 | Consumers ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities technologically possible with currently available resources and of the relative prices at which these commodities can in principle be produced gradually diminishes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( In Britain all books published are kept in copyright libraries such as the British Library in London , and can in principle be borrowed by your library , though in practice they are not available to everyone . ) |
| 25 | In a computerised catalogue , on the other hand , you can in principle search according to any aspect of a record about a book . |
| 26 | The same intensity field can in principle be produced by many different patterns of velocity fluctuation . |
| 27 | Now , if we can do it , and it 's not magic , then there must be some reasons we can do it , some rules we 're following , and those rules can in principle be put into computers . |