Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] first principle " in BNC.
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1 | I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time . |
2 | A budget should be built up from first principles , to identify the component tasks , the resources which are needed to carry out these tasks and to enable the required resources to be costed . |
3 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
4 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
5 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
6 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
7 | But having to go back to first principles proved a decisive advantage . |
8 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
9 | But it is easier to cope with these pressures if we go back to first principles . |
10 | But instead of a square heel , or even a radically smoothed-off heel similar to the Revell acoustic we recently reviewed , Andy Manson has gone back to first principles and has ended up virtually doing away with the heel altogether . |
11 | The M & S managers have long known and practised all this instinctively on their home ground : but that 's what happens when businesses move away from first principles . |
12 | The instinctive urge to acquire a stake in the country , to get back to first principles and become , once again , master of his own fate , becomes ever more apparent as our top-heavy , complex society lurches from crisis to crisis . |