Example sentences of "[verb] in principle [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has agreed in principle to take the club over . |
| 2 | Waltham , Massachusetts-based Kronos Inc agreed in principle to acquire the technology and some assets of Computer Recovery Inc , an AS/400 software development company based in Alvarado , Texas , on undisclosed terms : it specialises in providing AS/400 time accounting software . |
| 3 | According to Western media reports , the meeting agreed in principle to allow the SOC to retain some of its armed forces during the period prior to elections . |
| 4 | The owner of the estate , American John Kluge , agreed in principle to sell the estate to the crown rather than put it on the open market , but he did not consider the resulting offer to be high enough . |
| 5 | It was also agreed in principle to strengthen the European Parliament by making it an elected body . |
| 6 | Subsequent reports on July 24 indicated that the USA and the United Kingdom had agreed in principle to resume the air war against Iraq , and that US President Bush had cancelled all immediate engagements to meet with top US military advisers . |
| 7 | On March 14 the Malaysian Foreign Minister , Omar Abu Hassan , said that ASEAN had agreed in principle to accept the Soviet Union as a dialogue partner , and was also considering China , Vietnam and Burma in the same capacity . |
| 8 | At the same meeting ministers agreed in principle to make the laundering of money made from drug trafficking a criminal offence by 1993 . |
| 9 | The Senate on June 20 agreed in principle to ratify the government 's April decision to make payments of an estimated US$8,500 million in interest on approximately $60,000 million in medium- and long-term debts to commercial bank creditors [ for details see p. 38143 ] . |
| 10 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 11 | On 9 March 1990 Norwich wrote to the applicant , offering in principle to appoint the company as an ‘ appointed representative , ’ but on the basis that Mr. Tee was not a director , shareholder or employee . |