Example sentences of "[vb base] practically [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 2 | In parts of the Atacama desert practically no rain falls , but in other deserts , especially locally on mountains , the annual rainfall may be as much as 250 mm ( 10 in ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Because of the Fair and the seminars , I know practically every curator in the ceramics field ’ |
| 4 | Because of the Fair and the seminars , I know practically every curator in the ceramics field ’ . |
| 5 | They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit |
| 6 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 7 | Similarly , the fact that the tiger is unable to figure it out from our behaviour that we have practically no sense of smell , demonstrates how instinctive and preprogrammed are their mental functions . |
| 8 | Opinion , the paper reports , is moving in favour of the idea that in future self-management communities of interest should be regulated by general laws instead of by social compacts , which have practically no authority , legal or otherwise . |