Example sentences of "practical [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 2 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
| 3 | Thus for practical reasons it has sometimes been found expedient for projects initiated by Unidroit to reach fruition at a Diplomatic Conference held under the aegis of UNCITRAL . |
| 4 | It might be added that when text is input for phonological analysis these problems are if anything magnified , and for these purely practical reasons it was possible in , for example , the Belfast project , to use computers only in a very limited way for text processing ( as opposed to computation , where various statistical packages were extensively used ) . |
| 5 | The conduct of persons who daub walls with racist graffiti is also nominally caught , although for practical reasons it may be simpler for the police to arrest and a prosecution brought for criminal damage , which carries a higher penalty if the damage done is sufficiently great , always supposing that the culprit can be apprehended . |
| 6 | This list has been prepared without a buying or selling perspective and , hence , for practical reasons it might be decided to omit certain terms when acting for either party . |
| 7 | A school-leaver may indeed immediately use some of the practical skills he has learned at school , exactly as he has been taught them . |
| 8 | Before looking at some of the erm details of those practical programmes I would like to tell you something about the principles upon which his mind worked in approaching practical affairs . |
| 9 | Perhaps its greatest advantage is its ability to point social workers to the simple , practical steps they can take to improve the quality of life for children whose other difficulties may prove impossible to remedy . |
| 10 | Many mentioned the practical steps they had already devised : altering curriculum materials , deliberately avoiding the use of stereotyped language , studying patterns of classroom interaction and thinking of ways to increase girls ' participation . |
| 11 | I am delighted therefore to add my congratulations to those honoured by the British Safety Council for the practical steps they have taken to create safer places of work . ’ |
| 12 | Whether you 're a parent , a teacher , a youth worker or a friend , there are positive , practical steps you can take to help keep young people away from crime . |
| 13 | Confront your fears by asking yourself what practical steps you would be taking if you were feeling motivated — make a list and do them . |
| 14 | — What they are — How they work — What viruses are common and what practical steps you can take against them — The law |
| 15 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 16 | Just because you can do something well does not mean that you are not brainy but when you show your academic prowess along practical lines you are not considered by this government to be of the same worth as someone who can recall knowledge on one day . |
| 17 | For all practical purposes we can designate such relations in the earliest productive modes as wholly symmetrical . |
| 18 | Against this claim must be set the fact that many of the early ecologists were not , in any significant sense , evolutionists ; for all practical purposes they were still dealing with an essentially static world view . |
| 19 | For practical purposes it is probably safe to assume something like a 50/50 split and this is probably putting inherited factors too high . |
| 20 | That is not strictly correct , but for practical purposes it is normally close enough . ) |
| 21 | What are the practical purposes it aims to achieve ? |
| 22 | Jennings ( 1961 ) wrote that ‘ Research has produced such a variegated list of traits presumed to describe leadership , that for all practical purposes it describes nothing . |
| 23 | For all practical purposes it is necessary to run simulations on a computer , on account of the number of times it is essential to rerun the model under different conditions . |
| 24 | For many practical purposes it is convenient to use the form for an incompressible rubber where P is an arbitrary hydrostatic pressure , to be determined from experiment and has the values 1 , 2 or 3 . |
| 25 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 26 | Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us . |
| 27 | But , for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift . |
| 28 | One of the most obvious practical needs we have is to be able to communicate . |
| 29 | Practical applications a thought about practical applications we need to build in practical applications do n't we ? |
| 30 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |