Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] practical [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the common case where the act or neglect of the defendant and the injury to the plaintiff are for all practical purposes contemporaneous , the duty attaches to the defendant and is breached when the act or neglect occurs . … |
| 2 | But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity . |
| 3 | Experience gained in the course of employment as Librarian , British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , Edinburgh , suggests that such theses have been of great practical benefit to the geological community . |
| 4 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 5 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 6 | Broad statements of intent ( ‘ the library takes account of varying needs … anticipates future requirements and current demands … ’ etc. ) are of little practical use — although many policy statements consist almost entirely of generalizations along these lines . |
| 7 | This leads to the adoption of objectives of such generality — ‘ to provide for the recreational needs of every section of the population ’ — that they are of little practical use . |
| 8 | Indeed , these have become so tiny that they are of little practical use when flying . |
| 9 | The question to whom the omelette and the statue belong is another matter , and Salmond pointed out that the attempts of the older lawyers to transplant the Roman law of specificatio , confusio and the like to our system are of small practical use at the present day . |
| 10 | Although these transition metal compounds will activate carbon-hydrogen bonds , they do not behave catalytically , and so are of limited practical value . |
| 11 | Although an attempt was made to be representative in the choice of these films it is clear that if the effects observed are of any practical significance it should be possible to observe them on a more varied stimulus set . |
| 12 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 13 | Without access to property , the freedom of the parties to associate with one another and to make agreements would be of little practical significance in this context . |
| 14 | One argument was that agreements entered into by an organisation would be of little practical effect unless they were simultaneously binding upon the individual member States . |
| 15 | In the literature a " simple " material is referred to as one in which the stress depends only on the history of the deformation gradients F ( dependence on higher-order gradients has been considered but at present seems to be of little practical value ) . |
| 16 | This special responsibility for verifying compliance with Community minimum requirements is known as ‘ home country control ’ and will be of increasing practical importance for UK businesses which venture abroad while remaining subject to such home country control . |
| 17 | That will be of real practical benefit to professions worldwide . ’ |
| 18 | If this possibility interests you , your main concern should be to ensure that you are given enough information to check that the retraining will be of real practical value . |
| 19 | The little volume , which deals with cooking out of doors for motorists , cyclists , campers , walkers , and fishermen has never been translated into English and would n't be of much practical use to us if it were , because the majority of the recipes are based on the products to be bought at the " village charcutier " , an institution which does n't exist in the British Isles . |
| 20 | Although augmented now by police powers to give instructions in the control of processions and assemblies and the new crime of offensive conduct it seems likely that they will continue to be of immense practical importance . |
| 21 | They could not have learned the trade in time to be of any practical use to the employers in keeping orders going . |
| 22 | To be of any practical use , an object made from a polymeric material must be able to retain its shape when subjected to even small tensions or compressions over long periods of time . |
| 23 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |
| 24 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 25 | Section 5 of the Act creates a relatively minor offence which is likely to be of considerable practical significance . |
| 26 | In that the directors are often likely to be better disposed to the workforce than are the shareholders this may be of some practical importance . |
| 27 | In terms of outcomes , it is anticipated that the research will be of direct practical relevance to work in a variety of context such as neighbourhood policing schemes , juvenile liaison and diversion schemes , reparation and victim-support projects , multi-agency work on drug problems , neighbourhood watch projects , etc . |
| 28 | As a result , many men who in law ranked as tenants were for most practical purposes the de facio owners . |
| 29 | Regarding the article ‘ Magnetism and the standing stones ’ ( Forum , 13 January , p 105 ) , it seems clear to us that such stone circles were of great practical importance to their constructors . |
| 30 | Western security is for all practical purposes , non-existent , at least in the view of Russian diplomats who have served in the West . |