Example sentences of "[prep] practice it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
2 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
3 | The constant impression given by the Prague School is that the sort of description and analysis they call for is essentially objective and scientific in character , but in practice it seems impossible to exclude a strong element of subjectivity from this kind of structural study . |
4 | In practice it seems inevitable that the CCITT will simply respond to the initiatives of the manufacturing giants . |
5 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
6 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
7 | In practice it overlooks two things . |
8 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
9 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |