Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [prep] principle [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1977 , however , it was decided that inter-city ( as well as freight ) rail services should not in principle be subsidized ( Department of Transport 1977 : chs. 6 , 7 ) , although in practice they continued to be . |
| 2 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 3 | Even if there were no public interest in publication , the right to free speech could not in principle be subordinated to the welfare of an individual whose established legal rights were not infringed . |
| 4 | Ministers rejected a German proposal to establish a list of countries in which there is generally no serious risk of persecution and from which asylum applications would not in principle be accepted . |
| 5 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |