Example sentences of "apply [prep] principle to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 2 | A philosophical account gives the necessary and sufficient conditions ( at least in outline form ) for the application of a concept , and it should , therefore , apply in principle to anything that is a case of that concept . |
| 3 | Best execution will also apply in principle to agency and other fiduciary transactions for non-private customers . |
| 4 | The same argument applies in principle to studies of metabolic activity . |
| 5 | All the characteristics outlined apply in principle to the hierarchies which fall within the scope of lexical semantics , that is to say , those which are composed of lexical items , and those structuring relations are relations of sense holding between those lexical items . |