Example sentences of "in principle [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We have said that in principle we would n't be in favour , but it would be a brave man who said that would always be the position . ’ |
| 2 | In principle we can all agree that the British Film Institute 's New Directors scheme , which funds short films by new talent , is a Good Thing . |
| 3 | In that sense , criminal law against murder , rape , arson , robbery , theft , and assault are in all our interests , since in principle we all benefit equally from and are protected by their existence . |
| 4 | Of course the field of view is 3-dimensional , so in principle we need only state three of these four coordinates , but there is no point in discarding information and so we may as well keep them all . |
| 5 | In principle we accept that people should be helped to provide for their own needs in old age by contributing throughout their working life to a pension scheme . |
| 6 | Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology , we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics . |
| 7 | In principle we are strongly attracted to the proposal to replace primary ( freshly won ) aggregates by increasing recycling and the use of suitable secondaries such as slate wastes . |
| 8 | In principle we are strongly attracted to the proposal to replace primary ( freshly won ) aggregates by increasing recycling and the use of suitable secondaries such as slate wastes . |
| 9 | In principle we could record and measure this . |
| 10 | The fat one does n't go out much either but in principle we ca n't rule him out . |
| 11 | I thought this sort of thing would be something the Green Party nationally should decide that whether in principle we ought to affiliate with . |
| 12 | Erm to emphasize the fact that erm in principle we are we are committed to providing our customers with a service that enables them to be more competitive . |
| 13 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 14 | But in principle we agree do we not , to back multi-agency meeting , given what we said in the discussion and we will come back to you with something that 's maybe a bit more specific , and more easy to discuss , may I say . |
| 15 | In practice some areas of police work are unresearchable , but in principle they should n't be . |
| 16 | And it may be argued that centralist solutions are dangerous , not only because in any particular administration they may be used to bad effect , but because in principle they inhibit freedom . |
| 17 | As labour employed by capital , in principle they needed trade unions and were organised by them , exemplary employer though the Consumers ' Movement generally was . |
| 18 | Yet in principle they can be readily distinguished . |
| 19 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 20 | We have had discussions with British Rail who confirm that in principle they have no objections to such new stations . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ In principle they like the scheme but we have to see whether they can find any money to back it up . |
| 22 | In principle they should be because they are part of erm your assessment . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , in principle she could have done — ’ |
| 24 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 25 | In principle it is extremely desirable , not only because of the basic ‘ otherness ’ of foreign poetry , but because such knowledge gives one a better sense of what English poetry can and can not do . |
| 26 | The Departments of Environment and Transport could have agreed that in principle it was better not to encourage more cars onto the roads by building better motorways . |
| 27 | As to the second argument , the Court accepted that in principle it was desirable to entrust supervisory control to a judge , concluding that the rule of law implies that executive interference with individual rights should be subject to effective control which should normally be the judges on the ground that this offers the best guarantee of independence , impartiality , and proper procedures . |
| 28 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 29 | Like a monorail it relies on elevated track , but in principle it is much like a train on the Paris metro , except the track is vertical rather than horizontal . |
| 30 | This system may vary in detail between specific contracts but in principle it runs along the following lines . |