Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] principle " in BNC.
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| 1 | This recalled the nuncupatio , the oral recital which in principle still lay behind every written will , and which gave validity to the dispositions recorded . |
| 2 | But as a work of fiction , a novel has a more abstract level of existence , which in principle is partly independent of the language through which it is represented , and may be realize for example , through the visual medium of film . |
| 3 | Considerable emphasis was placed on the idea of separate ‘ cultures ’ ( or more properly sub-cultures ) of poverty as a way of explaining the persistence of deprivation in societies which in principle were egalitarian and which certainly had seen massive increases in total welfare . |
| 4 | Still , by developing a historical materialist theory of musical development which in principle rebuts reductionism , both economistic and formalistic , Adorno 's general position opened up new ground , in ways which often remain of value . |
| 5 | Why would a political assembly want to abdicate from the full sovereignty which in principle it possesses , and set limits on its own future actions ? |
| 6 | The GCC was not originally intended as a military security organisation but it created the framework for non-bloc security cooperation which in principle meant rejecting both Western offers of military protection and the Soviet scheme for an international conference to transform the Gulf into a neutral zone . |
| 7 | Following their election in 1951 , the Conservatives , who in principle were less fettered than the Labour Party since they possessed no traditional commitment to early retirement , introduced a more flexible retirement policy for civil servants . |
| 8 | On the other hand , many people who do not have a job but who in principle would like one do not , for one reason or another , register as unemployed . |
| 9 | Not with a view to conciliating those readers who on principle object to sequels , but as a matter of fact , the Author wishes to say that he does not so regard this book . |
| 10 | It 's does smack to me a bit of in-filling and er , Northbrooks is quite a dense area already , a ve , a very dense area erm , and erm I 'm I 'm , you know , I 'd like to see any detailed plans on that before we even look at one in principle . |
| 11 | In August 840 , his decision to move swiftly north to Quierzy to bolster the nerve of his supporters , leaving his mother to take care of Aquitaine , was surely the right one in principle . |
| 12 | No we do n't , erm we in principle obviously we are in favour of er there being some form of compensation scheme and that has to be regarded as erm a step forward , er it would be better if er whatever compensation scheme is gon na be introduced was introduced now and the committee recommended and not in nineteen ninety-six or whenever it may be that the legislation is enacted . |
| 13 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 14 | Even the breakaway ‘ Northern Union ’ required rugby players to have a source of income outside of the game and paid them in principle for ‘ broken time ’ . |
| 15 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 16 | There is hardly an atom of truth in any of them and , while occasionally a long-held folk belief may prove to have some measure of accuracy , it is best to disbelieve them on principle without medical evidence . |
| 17 | Evert is not feeling comfortable with what she describes as the ‘ finality ’ of the decision , although she does agree with it in principle . |
| 18 | He has accepted it in principle , which does him great credit . |
| 19 | This potential for improving the quality of teaching and learning that underlies LMS probably accounts for the fact that few educationalists are opposed to it in principle . |
| 20 | Of course if you are against it in principle , that is an end of it ( and there has been no beginning ) . |
| 21 | And what are the constraints on possible perceptions : for instance , is it in principle possible that a creature able to perceive the motion of an individual object might be able to perceive the object 's shape ? |
| 22 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 23 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 24 | So , the patients and our residents are our main er concern and er , if we all er , oppose it in principle and er , er er then er let us see how we 'll erm er , revamp this er response . |
| 25 | stated , at p. 622 : ‘ we in this court must apply the ratio of Neilson 's case to any case not distinguishable from it in principle , ’ and summarised , at p. 622 , as follows the public interest which the court in Neilson 's case had accepted as justifying the immunity : |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 27 | We welcome the Bill and support it in principle . |
| 28 | The Prison Service is reviewing the leave system , but defends it in principle , saying : |
| 29 | You know they 're , they 're opposed to it in principle erm so they do n't have an income tax , they do n't have a sales tax either er I 'm not quite sure how they finance public services in New Hampshire , it 's a mystery to me . |
| 30 | Before that time , alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain , though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle . |