Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] in practice " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comment : The procedures are vague and in practice delegated almost entirely to schools . |
| 2 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 3 | However , it is recognised that awards for comparable injuries should be comparable and in practice in an individual case the amount of the award is much influenced by the amounts of awards in previous cases in which the injuries appear to have been comparable , adjusted as appropriate in the light of the fall in the value of money since such awards were made . |
| 4 | But whatever the symbolic significance of these ceremonies may have been , it is clear that in practice Henry still retained the reins of power . |
| 5 | However it is clear that in practice some limitation would have to be imposed on any such principle . |
| 6 | The concept of the student with a broad scientific base is fine but in practice it does not work . |
| 7 | He submitted that the concept of a peculiar domestic law differing from the general law of the land was artificial since in practice the charter and statutes of a university are expressed in ordinary legal language and applied in accordance with the same principles as those applicable under the general law . |