Example sentences of "practice the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although technically the health authority bears responsibility , in practice the funeral arrangements are made by the staff of the hospital where the patient died . |
| 2 | In practice the Marxist practitioners of the New Historicism tend to interpret Shakespeare plays in accordance with the political interests of the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | It all seems to offer a breathtaking array of choice yet in practice the schedules too often present the same glum menu of badly dubbed westerns , trivial game shows , long and justly forgotten Neapolitan comedies of the 1960s or windy discussion programmes . |
| 4 | In practice the distinction is not so clear-cut . |
| 5 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 6 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |
| 7 | So while the whole point of the argument , and rightly , is that when gender is understood as culture rather than nature we see that gender is implicated in all aspects of culture , in practice the argument rarely gets oft the bed . |
| 8 | In practice the superiority of composites can be even greater than these figures suggest . |
| 9 | In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost , so as a business proposition it is a non-starter . |
| 10 | In practice the relationship between the two has been all too cosy . |
| 11 | In practice the situation is not quite so simple , and many measurements and checks must be made by the TL scientist , only a few of which will be mentioned here . |
| 12 | So in practice the ‘ grievous bodily harm ’ rule goes further than the arguments of its protagonists would support . |
| 13 | The general muddle was discussed in Chapter 6.2(c) above : in principle , a person whose conduct was caused by mental disorder should not be liable to criminal conviction , but in practice the narrow and antiquated defence of insanity is rarely invoked in England ( a handful of cases each year ) , and the courts normally proceed to conviction and then select a medical disposal where appropriate . |
| 14 | However , in practice the courts tend to impose higher sentences for assaults on the police , and it is therefore worth noting that this offence is committed even though D was unaware that he was striking a police-officer . |
| 15 | Although procedurally they are selected by the appointments secretary at Downing Street , in practice the Queen is asked for her informal approval before a nomination is made : the prime minister 's private secretary writes to the Queen 's private secretary saying ‘ the |
| 16 | In practice the eye must be at least very slightly above the mirror plane to obtain a reflection . |
| 17 | It is one of my favourite films — Peter Sellers as the vicar who tries to put into practice the teachings of Jesus Christ , causing anarchy and chaos thereby . |
| 18 | Also , under current regulations 75% was the minimum grant to Responsible Bodies ; although in practice the Ministry had treated this as the standard proportion , not to be exceeded , it was worrying that the Ashby Report gave 75% as the maximum . |
| 19 | In theory at least , ownership should enable them to use their crofts as security in raising finance , for example to make a matching contribution in projects assisted by the HIDB , but in practice the situation is more complex . |
| 20 | Although in practice the program staff do not strictly adhere to ‘ job demarcation , ’ on paper at least it can be further broken down into , Director ; 3 Cultural Program staff , 1 Research Program , 1 Research/Library , 1 Workshop Co-Ordinator/Economic Education program , 2 Economic Education staff , 1 Environmental Health/Toxic Waste program , and 1 on the Cultural program staff with especial responsibility for youth work . |
| 21 | Statistics ( Table I ) indicate that one in ten of the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland works in agriculture , although in practice the presence of small scale and often part-time farming means that probably one in five receive part of their income from agricultural activities . |
| 22 | She had unconsciously put into practice the Winnie the Pooh principle , which rules that the most effective method of searching for a lost person or object is to get lost oneself on the assumption that some force of nature brings all forgotten things together in ignored niches and unfrequented locales . |
| 23 | If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes . |
| 24 | We will press them to put into practice the principles of the Maastricht declaration . |
| 25 | Disconnect the large multi plug on the wiring loom on the bulkhead Pull the wire off the injector pump shut off solenoid as a safety measure and touch the starter solenoid wire ( white with a red tracer ) to a live feed ( brown ) on the engine side of the multi plug ( check it is out of first gear first ) An opened split pin is ideal for the job With practice the engine can be flicked over to the required position |
| 26 | In practice the Act requires teachers to avoid racial bias in the performance of their teaching and pastoral duties . |
| 27 | Because of the interrelationships between the language modes , in good classroom practice the programmes of study will necessarily and rightly be integrated . |
| 28 | In practice the widowed of any age were much more likely to stay in their own homes than to move to find support . |
| 29 | Still less can we be true citizens if that parliamentary will is in practice the will of a Prime Minister presiding over a cowed Cabinet and protected by an impregnable parliamentary majority . |
| 30 | In practice the tactical manoeuvring may become less relevant if Westminster Live continues its recent practice of leaving the Chamber after the Prime Minister has finished and switching to studio interviews . |