Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] principle [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed , in addition , that all significant propositions , irrespective of their truth or falsity , must in principle be explicable in terms of propositions about such entities as a condition of their significance . |
| 2 | We might very well take the view that " x is an F " must in principle be convertible into a knowable proposition , without thereby implicitly accepting that " ( Ex ) Fx " and " " x is an F " is convertible into a knowable proposition " are equisignificant . |
| 3 | Thus , ME language states , being so variable , should in principle be suited to the same kind of analysis that we use in present-day social dialectology , and by using variationist methods we should be able to explore at least some of the constraints on variation that might have existed in ME . |
| 4 | They go on to submit that the term should in principle be read in its narrower sense although this might leave what they describe — we think euphemistically — as a ‘ small lacuna ’ in the law . |
| 5 | The one equation should in principle be convertible into the other , but this is not always possible . |
| 6 | ( d ) Offices and employments As a matter of prudence , agreement should be reached at an early stage in the life of any firm whose partners , or some of them , are likely to find themselves appointed to some professional or public office as to : ( 1 ) whether remuneration from such offices should in principle be accounted for as part of the profits of the firm ( Clause 10.06 ) ; and ( 2 ) the amount of time any partner should be permitted to devote to such activities ( before his profit share suffers some downward adjustment ) . |
| 7 | Secondly , the issues discussed arise out of the regulation of the activities of financial conglomerates generally , and should in principle be equally applicable to problems arising from rules that relate specifically to the futures market . |
| 8 | In the case just considered , social institutions could in principle be an expression of a pre-cultural disposition . |
| 9 | The power to make decisions that is located within companies could in principle be vested in , or at least shared with , the affected groups . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Any particle could in principle be used ; most results have been obtained with neutrons or electrons , each of which has various advantages and disadvantages for particular samples . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In practice , you might , for instance : ( a ) Broaden your essay 's conclusions , so that they could in principle be applied to other books , or an author 's work as a whole . |
| 14 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 15 | If on the other hand they are not sitting in that capacity , it was agreed that they are performing functions in the public domain , and judicial review would in principle be available . |
| 16 | It noted that the relevant EC legislation to be integrated into the EES treaty as a common legal basis had been broadly identified and would in principle be acceptable , but that the question of joint management and development of EES legislation would have to be resolved , and an appropriate legal and institutional framework established . |
| 17 | Provided national law would confer protection upon the employees of such an employer , then the transaction would in principle be covered by the Directive . |
| 18 | But all other pension rights , whether through occupational or personal pension schemes , would in principle be divisible . |
| 19 | No aspect of the Union 's external relations will in principle be excluded from the common foreign policy . |
| 20 | Contracting out makes it possible to transfer those problems to others , who can in principle be fairly tightly controlled through contracts . |
| 21 | Conclusions emerging from conceptual evaluation : types of drill can in principle be associated with types of meaning . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The world , it is argued , can in principle be described without using any " pluralistically committed " terms at all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Only differences between classes of individuals can in principle be attributed to a single cause . |