Example sentences of "principle the " in BNC.

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1 According to 18th century principles the painting is ‘ sublime ’ in the roughness and irregularity of the tree , as well as ‘ beautiful ’ in the smoothness of the water .
2 In Keeton 's words , ‘ it was left to Dicey to formulate in general principles the assumptions on which political association was founded ’ .
3 In the name of these principles the Cortes produced on paper ( for neither the constitution nor its legislative consequences were ever effective ) a Spain that would have delighted the monarchical bureaucrats : a clumsy taxational system , with endless provincial divergencies , was to be replaced by a uniform income tax ; the machinery of the ancien régime with its characteristic confusion of administrative and judicial function was dismantled .
4 Any such scheme , though , is of dubious utility to the pragmaticist in search of functional principles the categories are of vague application , they do not have direct empirical motivation , and there are many other rival schemes built upon slightly different lines .
5 But things are going to move on apace , and we need to , a set of principles the officers can work to , and I 've put these down as a broad list , erm , for your consideration .
6 There was UK source income and this will be taxable under general principles upon the trustees at the basic rate and there was no reason why under general principles the higher rate of tax could not be charged upon the settlor under Part XV .
7 All these principles the Labour Group champion and support .
8 Meanwhile at the last Oxford college to abandon its women-only principles the feeling was the students will get used to the idea .
9 Working on the torch principle the gun became a simple projector .
10 But he believed in principle the prosecutions should continue .
11 Second , the Algerian negotiations between ETA and the Spanish government broke down over the government 's unwillingness to accept in principle the Basques ' right of self-determination .
12 To Irenaeus , the normal ministry of word and sacrament is in principle the point where the Spirit of God is encountered , not at emotional ecstasies which reject rationality and tradition .
13 Using the Linomat C principle the effluent from the HPLC column is sprayed onto the HPTLC plates .
14 Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice .
15 As a general principle the bigger the machinery the more justified is the use of pressure jetting and special brushes .
16 This concern with the rights of parents masks a continuing failure to establish as a principle the rights of children and young people to take part , or at the very least , have some say , in meetings where decisions about their future will be made .
17 But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb .
18 Or is the macrobiotic principle the ideal ?
19 So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party .
20 Reichian therapy , acupuncture and many other healing techniques have as their basic principle the concept of energy flows in the body .
21 For the moment we need to notice that if normality is to be defined not in terms of contextual plausibility but in terms of frequency of attested occurrence , then in principle the teacher , selecting language by this criterion , would be confined to a presentation of expressions which realized a particular combination of syntactic elements with particular lexical items .
22 While welcoming in principle the SIB 's recent proposals for simplification of the rules , Mr Bell said : ‘ Any changes , no matter how desirable , must however be implemented sensibly in order not to increase unnecessarily the already considerable costs of the regime , which in our case can only be borne by the policy holders . ’
23 In its strategy for continuing education provision for qualified nurses in Scotland , the Scottish National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting accepts in principle the recommendations of a working party on continuing education and professional development for the three professions which reported in 1981 .
24 In principle the Central Authority could also delegate some of the functions reserved for it in the Electricity Act .
25 The latter place rather more emphasis on the social values and cultural meanings associated with family life , and look at change over time in the sentiments , attachments and emotions associated with different family relationships — usually between spouses and between parents and immature children , although in principle the same kind of analysis can be applied to the wider kin group .
26 In principle the question of whether a liberal democratic state can be used constitutionally to transform capitalism into socialism remains empirically open ( depending upon the definition of socialism adopted ) , with some Marxists arguing the impossibility of such a solution ( Przeworski , 1985 ) , and others that it is both feasible and welcome ( Esping-Anderson , 1985 ) .
27 All such principles are general and abstract and even if there was complete agreement as to the principle the problem of application to particular and concrete facts would remain .
28 With regard to the efficiency principle the argument runs as follows : the financial services industry is regarded as being fundamentally different from all other industries .
29 In Beyond the Pleasure Principle the position is that the pleasure principle may be serving the death instincts , which would imply that the Nirvana principle is basic to mental functioning alongside the reality principle .
30 A common law court will receive some evidence in writing , whether in the form of reports , exhibits or ‘ agreed bundles of documents ’ ; but in principle the evidence is ‘ heard ’ at the actual trial , the form of which is influenced by the needs of the jury even in those systems , such as the English , where the actual presence of a jury in a civil trial is now quite exceptional .
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