Example sentences of "[art] [adj] principle that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the principles governing reprisals , the legality of a threat of use of force in self-defence depends on compliance with the basic principles that self-defence must be a matter of overwhelming necessity and must be proportionate to the force used in the initial attack . |
| 2 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 3 | Having thus grasped the important principle that kinship terms reflect social usage , Morgan was able to go further and indeed to anticipate later research in his perceptive assessment of the social advantages of the classificatory system . |
| 4 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 5 | The general principle that dependence/independence status is closely linked with an individual 's point on the lifespan was outlined in the discussion of the model of living , and is certainly applicable to this AL . |
| 6 | For my next example I will go back to Sri Lanka for a case which exhibits with particular clarity the general principle that equality of status calls for direct equivalence in reciprocal behaviour . |
| 7 | In such cases the law has sought to strike a compromise between the competing principles that ownership of property must be protected and that speedy commerce in goods should be facilitated . |
| 8 | Although there is a general principle that education in the state sector must be provided free of charge , there are exceptions to this in the case of , for example , ‘ optional extras ’ ( see Appendix to this chapter ) . |
| 9 | The lower element of the double lens was formed by chitin and the surface between the two conforms to a mathematical principle that man discovered only three hundred years ago when trying to correct the spherical aberration of lenses in his telescopes . |
| 10 | Here again , the traditional priority of reality over literature is reversed ; where it is an axiomatic principle that literature is derived from other literature and not from any non-literary source , reality becomes irrelevant to the writing and analysis of literature . |
| 11 | On the other hand , this might be evidence of an emerging principle that input VAT attributable to any outside-the-scope supply should be allowable . |