Example sentences of "principle the " in BNC.

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1 Working on the torch principle the gun became a simple projector .
2 But he believed in principle the prosecutions should continue .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Using the Linomat C principle the effluent from the HPLC column is sprayed onto the HPTLC plates .
6 Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice .
7 As a general principle the bigger the machinery the more justified is the use of pressure jetting and special brushes .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Or is the macrobiotic principle the ideal ?
11 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 .
12 Reichian therapy , acupuncture and many other healing techniques have as their basic principle the concept of energy flows in the body .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 In principle the Central Authority could also delegate some of the functions reserved for it in the Electricity Act .
17 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 .
18 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 ) .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 But since the official essence of Unionism is the claim that Northern Ireland is as integral a part of Great Britain as Yorkshire or Middlesex , it is hard to see on what grounds of principle the Unionists could object to their fate being decided by a majority within Great Britain as a whole .
24 West German electoral law prescribes that in principle the magnitude of a constituency should not deviate by more than 25% from the average , and that if it deviates by more than 33.3% its boundaries must be redrawn .
25 As a key principle the Profitboss always manages for consistency .
26 On principle the PROFITBOSS will resign rather than profit without principles .
27 ( d ) To require member states to depart from the universally recognised criterion of the owner 's nationality would place Community law in conflict with international law , which should be avoided ; in contrast , as a matter of general principle the E.E.C .
28 In principle the appellants should not be permitted to retain payments for which they have no warrant to charge .
29 In my judgment , as a matter of principle the colore officii cases are merely examples of a wider principle , viz. that where the parties are on an unequal footing so that money is paid by way of tax or other impost in pursuance of a demand by some public officer , these moneys are recoverable since the citizen is , in practice , unable to resist the payment save at the risk of breaking the law or exposing himself to penalties or other disadvantages .
30 He thought that in principle the plaintiff 's right to compensation came into existence only when she was born with the bodily disability from which she suffered .
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