Example sentences of "agree [prep] principle " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Washington sources , the first step towards this new world order for steel has been agreed in principle by Brussels and Washington : the 1985 EC steel subsidy code , in slightly adapted form , would be applied jointly to US and EC producers . |
| 2 | TAIF ( AFP ) — Lebanese MPs agreed in principle to shift power from the country 's traditionally Christian president to the Muslim-headed cabinet . |
| 3 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 4 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 5 | Mr Sjogren said that Talb had agreed in principle to answer questions about the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 6 | ‘ Nate and the Executive Committee have agreed in principle to phase-out all regional activities and bring the whole god-damned shootin' match right back here to Detroit , where I always said it should be . ’ |
| 7 | The Committee agreed in principle to your initial proposals . |
| 8 | Two local authorities , Rhondda Borough Council and Mid Glamorgan County Council , have agreed in principle to provide partial guarantees subject to any legal restrictions . |
| 9 | Saur has agreed in principle to buy out its partner to produce closer ties with its other operation , Cambrian Environmental Services . |
| 10 | The proposal for the recreation ground in Brislands Lane was agreed in principle at East Hampshire District Council last week . |
| 11 | The villagers and the British agreed in principle that ‘ theft ’ was wrong , but differing conceptions of property rights resulted in differing opinions about whether or not the taking of plantation produce was really theft . |
| 12 | It was agreed in principle to admit former-Communist bloc nations Poland and Hungary as full members once their economies are closer to the Community level . |
| 13 | He said Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic , whose forces have besieged Cerska since Bosnia 's war erupted last April , had agreed in principle to the inspection trip . |
| 14 | General Mladic had also agreed in principle to open a corridor to Cerska . |
| 15 | Both sides have agreed in principle that if a divorce is pursued , the couple will retain joint custody with Fergie given day-to-day ‘ care and control ’ and Andrew unlimited access . |
| 16 | Financial support to help restore damaged upland areas has been agreed in principle by the Camping and Outdoor Leisure Association ( COLA ) , the umbrella body representing outdoor gear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 17 | With its partner in the venture , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc , it has agreed in principle to sell its Ipswich-based BT&D Technologies Ltd joint venture to Hewlett-Packard Co on undisclosed terms . |
| 18 | Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kronos Inc agreed in principle to acquire the technology and some assets of Computer Recovery Inc , an AS/400 software development company based in Alvarado , Texas , on undisclosed terms : it specialises in providing AS/400 time accounting software . |
| 19 | The third proposal before the EEC involved the finalisation of the financial regulations concerning the adjustment of the several national agricultures , on which the Six had agreed in principle in 1962 . |
| 20 | Organisations that have agreed in principle to let Phonelink hold and use their databases are Infocheck for company profiling ; the Automobile Association for identification of appropriate hotel accommodation , restaurants and guest houses ; Thomson Directories for finding business leads ; the Press Association for news ; Ordnance Survey for destination mapping ; British Rail for railway timetables ; British Weather Services ; and GB Mailing Systems for postcode information . |
| 21 | IBM UK Ltd has agreed in principle to pre-load Tel-Me on all its personal computers ‘ of an agreed specification ’ and will design and build a specific machine to incorporate the necessary communications devices , and to distribute Tel-Me in the UK . |
| 22 | Banks involved with London 's Canary Wharf project agreed in principle to put up another £500m ( $186m ) to get the project back on the road again — under their ownership . |
| 23 | Network Computing Devices Inc has agreed in principle to make a $4m investment in NetManage Inc , a two-year-old Cupertino , California-based vendor of networking protocol software for the Microsoft Windows environment , giving it a 10% ownership position . |
| 24 | McDonnell Douglas Corp has given up on its idea of floating its McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd Pick and Pick-under-Unix business on the London International Stock Exchange , and instead has agreed in principle to sell it to its management , who will retain effective day-to-day control , backed by a few blue-chip investors including Baring Capital Investors Ltd . |
| 25 | Tudorbury Securities agreed in principle to pay two ex-London & Norwich dealers £5,000 each up front to join them , such was their desire for hot-shot salesmen . |
| 26 | By late July a conference between ‘ the Six ’ in Paris had agreed in principle on the basics of a High Authority . |
| 27 | It was also agreed in principle to strengthen the European Parliament by making it an elected body . |
| 28 | The unrecorded item in this narrative must be that the terms of the final peace were agreed in principle by Pleistoanax and the Athenians when the former was still at Eleusis . |
| 29 | The cessation of hostilities was agreed in principle . |
| 30 | Now that the problem has been identified , federal and state health ministers have agreed in principle that this type of service should be a federal responsibility and discussions have started on the practicalities . |