Example sentences of "a matter of principle " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a matter of principle here for some of those who wish their authors to be concealed : such authors should not sound like the characters they invent , any more than they should express opinions . |
| 2 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 3 | However , as a matter of principle and good airmanship , at least one full wing-span of clearance should always be left to allow for inadvertent drifting or swinging during landings . |
| 4 | Alternative dividing lines which have been informally mooted , such as simply restricting solicitor-advocates in Crown Court jury trials to the less serious cases , had been viewed as difficult to support as a matter of principle . |
| 5 | It is a matter of principle for the Hong Kong government that it should not seek to restrict the numbers leaving , whether directly or by influencing resettlement countries . |
| 6 | They might have gone higher but this is a matter of principle . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not the money , ’ she said grandly , ‘ it is a matter of principle . ’ |
| 8 | The Libyan government was indeed anxious , as a matter of principle , that girls should go to school after the age of twelve . |
| 9 | It 's a matter of principle . ’ |
| 10 | I was demanding a big rise in salary , just to prove my worth ; and Andrew was refusing to give it to me , as a matter of principle . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a matter of principle ! ’ |
| 12 | It was true that Dimity appeared to fall in readily with any of Ella 's demands , but if it came to a matter of principle , then Dimity was unshaken . |
| 13 | As a matter of principle it is submitted that there should not be an absolute bar to adoption in the case of a marriage involving a transsexual . |
| 14 | You would think that the ‘ dummy head microphone ’ for ‘ binaural ’ reproduction — stereo sound for headphone listening — would give totally faithful stereo reproduction as a matter of principle . |
| 15 | The Disruption was the occasion in May , 1843 when on a matter of principle , 474 ministers , more than a third of the total in Scotland . |
| 16 | As a matter of principle I always approach a piece from the purely musical side . |
| 17 | Most people who supported the government when it joined the ERM did so not because they believed the forecasters ( although they were happy to do this ) , but because they believed , as a matter of principle , in the ‘ New Consensus ’ — that the active use of macroeconomic policy can only have an adverse effect and that market forces alone can deliver non-inflationary growth and full employment . |
| 18 | If eclecticism is to be a matter of principle , it can not apply independently at the level of operational technique : it must apply at the level of appraisal which techniques will make variably operational in the manner previously discussed . |
| 19 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 20 | ‘ There is no great problem , it is more a matter of principle , ’ said Louis . |
| 21 | He told an anti-Common Market fringe meeting in Blackpool he said he was resigning ‘ on a matter of principle . ’ |
| 22 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |
| 23 | The argument of this paper is roughly this : there is room for improvement in the way this rather delicate rule is administered , but as a matter of principle it must stand . |
| 24 | He did n't want to talk about it , and muttered that he 'd resigned over a matter of principle concerning next year 's timetable . |
| 25 | As a matter of principle this seems excessively hard on third parties ; the buffer stock Manager was known publicly to be the representative of the International Tin Council , there was reliance upon this by the third parties and the States therefore should not be able later to deny their involvement . |
| 26 | It seemed , as much as anything , to be a matter of principle . |
| 27 | Whereas in London and in England generally , it had been a matter of principle from the start that Monotypes should be worked by male union labour , " in Edinburgh , the men do not seem to have come forward to learn the Monotype , even in response to invitations from the employers . |
| 28 | For Robert Thornton , Mrs Gaskell 's honourable industrialist , this indifference is almost a matter of principle : ‘ The masters would be trenching on the independence of their hands , in a way that I , for one , would not feel justified in doing , if we interfered too much with the life they lead out of the mills . ’ |
| 29 | Without even criticizing the valuable work done by the private sector audit firms it should be a matter of principle that their reports should be presented to the C & AG rather than to the respective Secretary of State . |
| 30 | Held : The Court had held in Evans ( 1976 ) 64 Cr.App.R. 127 that there was no reason why consecutive community service orders should not be made , but the total number of hours to which the offender was subject should not exceed , as a matter of principle , 240 at any one time . |