Example sentences of "practice this [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or her , ’ she would add scrupulously , being among other things a feminist ) , but in practice this does n't seem to affect her behaviour very noticeably — she seems to have ordinary human feelings , ambitions , desires , to suffer anxieties , frustrations , fears , like anyone else in this imperfect world , and to have a natural inclination to try and make it a better place . |
| 2 | Unfortunately in practice this does not seem to be a possibility . |
| 3 | In practice this produces a vertical integration of public services , with officials at each geographical level in the state hierarchy responsible to the relevant ministry at the level above them as well as to the elected organ at their own level . |
| 4 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 5 | The line of descent may be further restricted by making the estate an estate in tail-male , i.e. one descendible only to males and only in the male line , or conceivably ( though in practice this appears never to be done ) in tall-female descendible only to and through females . |
| 6 | In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising . |
| 7 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
| 8 | In practice this means that the program is likely to underestimate SNP strength in Scotland . |
| 9 | In practice this means that response times will become longer as demand increases , and they will also become more variable . |
| 10 | In practice this means that if an order is made transferring the home , the wife 's maintenance will be consequently reduced . |
| 11 | In practice this means under our fully independent end to end service measurement arrangements that next day delivery will be achieved for over 9 out of 10 letters within the 100 mile range and currently 8 out of 10 for those travelling longer distances . |
| 12 | In practice this means that the positive ions are part of the crystal lattice . |
| 13 | In practice this means that we do n't need to concern ourselves with the contents of such data files ; they 're not for human consumption without previous digestion by a computer . |
| 14 | In practice this means constructing questionnaires on the basis of preliminary interviews , administering pilot versions of the questionnaire under conditions which allow respondents to identify shortcomings and so on . |
| 15 | In practice this means for men . |
| 16 | In practice this means that attention tends to be more on the output that on the input . |
| 17 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 18 | In practice this seems to give a rather poor effect though , and this feature has not been included in the final unit . |
| 19 | With practice this works well . |
| 20 | This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties . |
| 21 | But in practice this has come to mean that the C. and A. G. examines , certifies and reports on the annual summarized accounts of the National Health Service taken as a whole , i.e. as the appropriation account presents them . |
| 22 | In practice this has not been achieved , even allowing for the fact that the Conservative government inherited from Labour plans entailing growth in expenditure of some 2% per annum . |