Example sentences of "[v-ing] to this principle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consciousness and matter interact according to this principle . |
| 2 | According to this principle , as Bentham understands it , the ideal method for determining whether an individual 's action , or a legislative enactment , is right or wrong would be through evaluation of its total tendency to promote happiness , on the one hand , and to promote unhappiness on the other ; if the former predominates the action is right , if the latter it is wrong . |
| 3 | According to this principle , we interpret language on the assumption that its sender is obeying four maxims . |
| 4 | Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference . |
| 5 | Its brilliance lay in the assumption that , according to this principle , certain places in the periodic table of all the ninety-two elements were still empty , and in predicting the properties of the as yet undiscovered elements which were to fill them . |