I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a practical alternative
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This treatment represents a practical alternative to surgery.
a practical approach
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Women often take a more practical approach.
a practical exam (= in which you have to make or do things )
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There’s a practical exam as well as a written one.
a practical experiment (= one that relates to real situations or events, not scientific theories )
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The research team compiled a set of practical experiments in Modern Astronomy.
a practical joke (= that involves tricking someone )
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What the workers think is a practical joke, management might regard as sabotage.
a practical matter
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He wrote to him several times about practical matters to do with the house.
a practical problem
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Burying a pet can present practical problems.
a practical purpose
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These materials are too fine to have a practical purpose in daily life.
a practical suggestion (= based on real situations, not just ideas )
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What practical suggestions can you offer to teachers of children with learning difficulties?
a practical/viable proposition (= likely to be possible or successful )
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A complete ban on strikes is not a practical proposition.
a practical/workable solution (= one that is really possible )
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They've had to find practical solutions to practical problems.
a viable/practical option (= something you can choose that will be successful )
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Surgery may be a viable option when all else fails.
an academic/practical etc turn of mind
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youngsters with an independent turn of mind
economic/practical/political etc necessity
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I’m afraid it’s become a matter of economic necessity .
from a practical point of view
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Saving energy in your home is fairly easy from a practical point of view.
practical advice
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The programme aims to offer practical advice on healthy eating.
practical difficulties (= problems with doing something )
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It’s a great idea, but there will be a number of practical difficulties.
practical experience (= experience gained from doing something, not from books or study )
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The classes provide students with some practical experience of computers.
practical help
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The organization offers practical help with finding accommodation.
practical implications
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Academic research often has practical implications.
practical importance (= related to things that happen, rather than just ideas )
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Science has long been of practical importance to civilization as a whole.
practical joke
practical limitations
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Practical limitations, such as a shortage of equipment, may prevent them from achieving their goal.
practical nurse
practical skills
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Students will have the opportunity to learn a lot of practical skills.
practical/useful/helpful pointers
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a few useful pointers about using the technique
the technical/practical/financial etc aspects
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The technical aspects of the movie were incredible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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There were forty-seven children working on a very practical activity for a whole morning in one room.
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My father was never very practical , he said.
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His steps for transformation are very practical .
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The use of the null hypothesis does have one very practical use.
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Some of these lessons were very practical .
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WalkerThomas had two very practical suggestions.
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A slightly callous, but very practical attitude.
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It may not, however, be very practical for several reasons.
■ NOUN
advice
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The Beggar reproves him, then turns to practical advice .
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Ma, I just need some practical advice .
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But it won't be all competitive spirit; the evening will also include practical advice and last-minute tips for Christmas entertaining.
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I learned to depend on him for practical advice under fire.
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And giving young parents a source of friendly, practical advice .
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I hope that this book will be a major source of practical advice and assistance and will encourage the return of practitioners.
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Full interior design service available as well as friendly practical advice on curtains, upholstery and colour schemes.
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Sets out an action plan, with practical advice on managing changing demand at the neighbourhood level.
alternative
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Hislop believes that, as crop subsidies fall, farmers will see woodland creation as a practical alternative .
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They say there is no practical alternative .
application
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In the practical application of his theory Acton became much more pragmatic.
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That fact was given practical application almost at once.
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Furthermore, the theory of rhetoric can have practical application .
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Others see even more practical applications for these virtual places.
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Project work and its practical application forms a key part of the programme.
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Models based on soap films have many practical applications in the investigation of minimum surface areas.
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Reports to date are interesting, if somewhat inconclusive, and without immediate practical application .
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Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives.
approach
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Sixthly, on environmental controls, I congratulate the Government on their more sensible and practical approach .
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One of the best and most practical approaches to handling this problem is the pretest.
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Jane took a more practical approach .
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So, let us take a more practical approach to your problem.
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Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues.
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I have a much more practical approach than a visionary.
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We take a practical approach by working together with our customers to achieve the right solution.
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Teachers who have already taught pronunciation will appreciate its imaginative and practical approach .
aspect
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In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage.
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Thereafter everyone will focus on practical aspects of dealing with an existing problem.
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Robert Scopes presents both the principles and practical aspects in an easily comprehended, readable manner.
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This uses a system for monitoring hospital patients to highlight the practical aspects of the language.
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The aims of the programme were to obtain data and evidence for the technical and practical aspects of feasibility.
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In the past two decades, work on theoretical and practical aspects of artificial intelligence has stimulated our concepts of mind.
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There were practical aspects , too, including plant tours, showing where the exits were, what the alarms sounded like.
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The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler.
consequence
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Unless the slope of the baseline drift is very steep the decline has few practical consequences except to sharpen competitive pressures.
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When families fall short, society has to cope with the practical consequences .
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The practical consequences of time limits which are not of the essence of the contract are such that they are virtually meaningless.
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By this time, Leibniz was moving outward toward an application of his system with practical consequences .
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The regime is abstract in concept, political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.
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The practical consequence has previously been that prolonged autoradiographic techniques were required.
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For some Ajdabiyans the cases of Carnation Milk provided an amusing commentary on official inconsistency without having any practical consequences .
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This is a nicety, perhaps with no practical consequences .
consideration
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The choice between these two approaches will be governed by practical considerations such as the layout of the building.
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The victims of Jinnah were as oblivious as he to the mathematics of minorities and to practical considerations .
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That such a prolific goalscorer should choose a club renowned for their attacking play demonstrates the practical considerations which influenced his decision.
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There is also a practical consideration .
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There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
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Before you embark on the decoration, however, you need to have the practical considerations firmly in mind.
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This is probably because of the ethical and practical considerations .
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In the present case Mr. Glick was fully entitled to, and did, point to practical considerations to reinforce his argument.
difficulty
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But such practical difficulties can easily be overstated.
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It is a murky field at best, and the practical difficulties in the Viet-namese environment were daunting.
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It also raised serious practical difficulties .
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The practical difficulty , of course, is to ensure that a partner agrees to a dormant status.
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In addition to these practical difficulties , there are more principled objections.
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There are practical difficulties with parallel computers.
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Selecting from publishers' catalogues throws up at least two knotty practical difficulties .
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For the first couple of days this was stirring stuff - until practical difficulties began to take their toll.
effect
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The guidelines, due for final approval next year, will have little practical effect .
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But the practical effect was to establish the precedent that the future of Northern Ireland was negotiable.
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The practical effect is that that gives them precedence of speaking in Parliament.
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Too negligible to have practical effect in classical physics, it adds up over trillions of years.
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Or it may have little or no practical effect .
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In practical effect , it meant that Chun could dictate the selection of his successor.
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Nor were these arguments without practical effect .
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But panslavism had little practical effect on policy: it was a matter of popular mood rather than of official ideology.
experience
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The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works.
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They provide practical experience in all facets of the funeral service from embalming to transporting remains.
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Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role.
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The programme included practical experience in Breathing, movement with apparatus, and movement accompaniment.
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Constructive criticism of McClellan's system is difficult since so few librarians have any practical experience of its application.
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Only an expert after much study and practical experience will achieve consistently good responses.
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As a consequence there is no practical experience and no feedback to modify the approach in the design of subsequent estates.
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As with the development of all skills, the theoretical approach described in this chapter needs to be supplemented by practical experience .
guide
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It's increasingly popular and this book's a practical guide to using the remedies.
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This is the how-to, practical guide that will help you avoid opportunistic detours and stay on track.
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My colleagues on Fishkeeping Answers have produced a practical guide to tank safety in their November issue which is on sale now.
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Birmingham Midshires has launched a debt counselling service in the form of a practical guide for home owners.
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And a more detailed practical guide to involving users would have been good.
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Feel free to use the cakes here as a source of inspiration as well as a practical guide .
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This is a practical guide to real-time programming, the programs provided having been tested and proved.
help
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The social worker can give practical help and advice on all these tasks.
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They may also be able to tell you about local organisations which give practical help with gardening or decorating.
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Religion, combined with practical help , can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
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They cater for people who need both nursing supervision and a lot of practical help .
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Mr Ling also offered me practical help .
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Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help , advice and social activities.
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There seems to be a coldness at the heart of much hard-left philosophy, where theory takes precedent over practical help .
implication
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These purely doctrinal responses were, however, of lesser importance than one practical implication of Luxemburgism.
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It also has practical implications for social policy.
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Often this arises from the absence of any realistic concept of the practical implications of retirement.
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The test not only has directly practical implications in the diagnosis of disease.
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Understanding women's concerns about health has practical implications for the development of health and social policy.
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The practical implications of these matters are very real and may escape some of us microwave aces, for example.
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We considered the practical implications of our findings, and the potential contradictions faced by both parents and health professionals.
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The practical implications of the two are quite different, however.
importance
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A better understanding of the implications and consequences of economic and political development policies is of immediate practical importance .
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Science has long been of prime practical importance to civilization as a whole.
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It is a matter of practical importance that teachers can argue this case.
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Of more practical importance than estimates of global annual average temperature increase is that of resulting regional and seasonal changes.
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The debate had no practical importance , nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research.
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Inputs are thus of great practical importance , but they are only the means, not the ends, of competitive endeavour.
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The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident.
information
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Increasing relevance to practical information retrieval.
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A lot of practical information is exchanged, as well as emotional support.
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Holmes provides practical information about the hidden dangers of food and how to overcome them.
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Now here's some practical information about the day-to-day tasks involved in working in a shop.
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For those wanting to satisfy that itch there is an extensive factual section with each trek giving lots of useful practical information .
issue
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However, this now raises an important practical issue .
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This generation had come of age working on practical issues of feminism, pacifism, civil rights, and environmentalism.
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Theoretical reasoning is a dead letter to the child unless it is closely anchored to practical issues .
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While practical issues of meshing motherhood with modern life loom large, the greatest challenges are still psychological.
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Even observation is constrained by practical issues of access.
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From it follows a series of hardline implications for the other practical issues .
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For many people, this practical issue will overshadow the refinements of scientific investigation, but this would be a pity.
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That is not a theoretical matter, but a practical issue .
joke
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They went in for practical jokes , which at times could be trying.
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The sheer viciousness of Peggy Soong's practical joke choked her.
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At first I thought it was an enormous practical joke .
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Perhaps the loss of sunlight was behind a small eruption of quarrels and pointless practical jokes .
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All his life, he enjoyed heedless and extreme practical jokes .
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He is, however, not a trustworthy sprite, and delights in practical jokes of a bizarre and sometimes gruesome nature.
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Had he been brought here as some kind of practical joke ?
knowledge
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It's the practical knowledge that is far more important than the academic.
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The class would later serve Amelia in good stead, giving her her first practical knowledge of how engines worked.
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It will have to be backed up by a degree of practical knowledge and competence.
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In order to clarify this Oakeshott distinguishes between two sorts of knowledge , which he calls technical and practical knowledge.
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If they already have some practical knowledge they will be itching to get on to the floor!
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The lay members are intended to bring industrial experience and practical knowledge to bear on the issues coming before the tribunal.
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Genuine understanding implies at least some practical knowledge of what level of interest rates are likely to be charged for loans.
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Whenever a nurse gives an injection or changes a dressing she demonstrates the application of practical knowledge .
level
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However, Figure 2.1 does seem to clarify several aspects of the undergraduate curriculum at a more practical level .
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We may indeed find the concept horrifying, but we do not relate to it on a practical level .
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At a practical level , we see fair play, and deliver the groceries.
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On a practical level , he needed more graduates.
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It is an opportunity to experience at a practical level the pleasures of creating a piece of work or joining and dance.
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We must continue to study the new centralised global environment at both the theoretical and the practical levels .
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On a more practical level , two points should be made.
man
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The members of the second were practical men who were leaders and men of action in the material world.
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She had heard that he was a handsome horseman and a practical man .
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But even the newly practical men and women of complexity need to be allowed a bit of fun.
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You are a practical man , Doctor.
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The problem of the historic development of nineteenth-century society led both theorists and even practical men deep into the remoter past.
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So Ahab does what all practical men would do.
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John Coffin was no exception; a clever and practical man , he was unable to manage his own electric oven.
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As a practical man , the dairyman might laugh at love, but love has a habit of changing people's lives.
matter
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The Secretary of State smiles, but those are practical matters involving extremely important people within the local authorities.
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As a practical matter , the wisdom of tax-cutting is open to debate.
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Desperately, she turned back towards the room and tried to apply her mind to more practical matters .
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As a practical matter , the minimum wage is irrelevant to people at the bottom of the wage scale.
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Indeed, leave all practical matters to me for all time.
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Which as a practical matter is usually about twelve years and can be as little as eight.
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Nolan J. accepted that, as a practical matter , Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments.
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The challenge of making do without the domesticating power of women was, for many men, a practical matter .
necessity
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So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice.
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The need for reliability is not only ethically desirable, it is generally a practical necessity .
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Certainly marriage was very much a practical necessity for working class girls, and the chief hope was for a good bargain.
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Indeed, for many municipalities a concern with cost containment and with stimulating private investment became a practical necessity .
point
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On a practical point I noticed that the colours weren't as bright on the low radiation monitors that I used.
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On a practical point , finally, the crisis raised a serious problem.
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An important practical point to consider when sending out mailings of this kind is to decide exactly where to send the package.
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In the last three chapters, we have talked about dejobbed work from a practical point of view.
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Here, although the description is detailed, some practical points are missing - it is not a complete workman's blue-print.
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From a purely practical point of view, there were few alternatives.
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Clearly, it is important from the practical point of view.
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The technique of solving academic problems is almost the same as the technique of writing a legal opinion upon a practical point .
problem
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At the same time there are a series of practical problems affecting all consultation with users.
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The practical problem , Marvin told me, was that he is no longer able to improve his maple tree stands.
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Many theoretical and practical problems remain to be studied and this research project will tackle some of them.
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Is there a serious practical problem that Congress needs to address?
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It also provides a counselling service and a range of literature with advice on emotional as well as practical problems .
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Both theoretical and practical problems exist in fashioning out conceptual frameworks for the development of the continent.
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It's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague, but there would have been practical problems anyway.
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To stay in the world, parents have to solve the practical problems .
purpose
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For purely practical purposes , I deal with the artists' money for recording and touring expenses.
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Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes , lost.
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At the same time it also illustrates the practical purpose narrative theory may have for the reading of individual works of literature.
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For all practical purposes , it has a nationwide corporate network, just like the big firms.
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For all practical purposes , the Holy Spirit could be discounted.
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Yet for all practical purposes , Windows was Macintosh.
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Chance variations have a natural spread across the normal curve as explained above, for practical purposes .
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For all practical purposes , the Army of the Potomac was on its own.
reality
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Unfortunately practical reality fell somewhat short of the theoretical ideal.
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Clearly the proliferation of little municipal governments runs counter to this philosophical wisdom and practical reality .
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Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise.
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At this time of year, when the garden still is a malleable dream, we must nevertheless consider practical realities .
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Put simply, they believe aid fails due to the dichotomy between theory at a distance and practical reality at the local level.
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Altogether, this was the conclusion which best corresponded to the practical realities of the day.
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People wanted to believe it, and no practical reality came into conflict with it.
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While the latter is the practical reality in many cases it is certainly not the legal position.
reason
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This is both for practical reasons and as a matter of public policy.
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We have no practical reason for being.
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For practical reasons , she enlisted the help of the air force.
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Men who defect for practical reasons are easier to manage and maintain.
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Aside from purely humanitarian reasons , there are other more practical reasons for aiming to control pain.
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Again, there was a practical reason for using silver rather than other metals such as brass.
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There was, however, a very practical reason for the facing of the galleries in these directions.
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Many practical reasons for this are, I suppose, quite justly given.
skill
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The processes are described as: problem solving skills; practical skills; language skills; and technical skills .
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Both of them possessed the practical skills of ropework and carpentry to look after the raft properly and to teach the others.
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Saturday I made a patchwork cot cover by hand, I have good practical skills .
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State board licensing examinations vary, but they usually consist of written and oral parts and include a demonstration of practical skills .
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Our research was on teaching pupils practical skills in Biology and Physics.
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She taught People how to use public transportation, how to open a bank account and other practical skills .
solution
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Provided the room is big enough, room divider doors are a practical solution and can be an attractive feature.
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Sometimes this shared understanding may lead to more practical solutions .
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Odeneal was swayed by the eloquence and truth of Joseph's argument, and submitted a practical solution .
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They do not offer practical solutions .
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Mr Holt is keen to find a practical solution to better protect the environment.
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These two sides would slug it out, and a practical solution would emerge somewhere between the two positions.
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In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain's economic problems.
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The search continues for a practical solution .
support
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In general, practical support between relatives seems highly gendered, with women much more involved than men.
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Emotional and practical support for both needs to continue after the birth.
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Salvation Army Have projects in Wandsworth and Lothian offering emotional and practical support and recreational facilities.
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But most research studies suggest that sharing practical support is more characteristic of women.
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It was important for the lenders to give normal and practical support .
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I made a similar argument in chapter 1 about practical support in contemporary society.
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They didn't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant, some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support .
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The appeal was launched in October to encourage the local community to demonstrate practical support for the project.
training
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As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training .
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Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues.
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Despite his success, the senate objected both to practical training and to Stuart's radical politics.
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The question of the assessment of practical training was a difficult one.
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Those in more technical areas had a greater sense of optimism because they would leave university with practical training .
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His practical training started at his father's mill, where he was given a lathe and built small working steam engines.
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It was an impressive practical training , for a handful of apprentice midwives delivered about 1,300 women every year.
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The Agricultural Training Board supports a wide range of practical training projects for which farmers and farm workers can form local groups.
use
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Complexity was neither necessary nor desirable; it was of no practical use and it solved nothing in the end.
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The use of the null hypothesis does have one very practical use.
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This is the sharp end of modern cartography, a revolution in processing geographic data for practical uses .
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This is almost certainly the first practical use of lunar materials to be attempted.
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For computational linguists the over-riding concern is their practical use .
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He made practical use of the widest possible range of phenomena.
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Can your precious ethnography tell us anything which would be of practical use about managing these queues?
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Perhaps before the decorative uses of stone evolved the practical use dominated.
value
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Because of its great practical value , the book is very unique and very useful.
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Telecommuting is now reaching the mass market, where it is not as picturesque but has more practical value .
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If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour.
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As such, it has important symbolic as well as great practical value .
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The search facility has the practical value of making it quicker and simpler to find your place in the recording.
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In addition to their great theoretical significance, the Euler-Lagrange equations provide calculational procedures of remarkable power and practical value . 9.
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Special importance is attached to producing results accessible and of practical value to those whose lives are being studied.
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Alas, it was said to have been of not much practical value .
way
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Our goal will always be to serve the people of Britain in a positive and practical way .
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Lured by the excitement of plate tectonics, some felt that earth science would be a practical way to apply their knowledge.
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In the following chapter you will find some practical ways of helping this process still further.
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Some suggestions for achieving both and putting them together in a practical way is the subject of the rest of this section.
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A practical way forward for some centres may be the use of Work Experience modules.
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This is a clearly-stated objective that is a feasible and practical way of dealing with finances.
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He had used this in a practical way in solving problems with which the helicopter abounds.
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The practical ways are divided into Karma Yoga, the way of work, and Jnana the way of intellect.
work
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Discussion should take place regarding the learning methods, i.e. practical work , discussions, role play, tutorials and individual study.
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If the building is rented, there is little opportunity for practical work except for some fevered activity on Sunday.
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Like Alan, Mark saw the practical work as a game, but unlike Alan he refused to play it.
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For example, few schemes incorporated practical work using equipment.
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There are variations in the way mental, oral and practical work are incorporated into a scheme.
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The course also includes assessment of practical work and investigation.
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The programme for each of the training days contains formal talks, group practical work , and plenty of time for discussion.
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It was intended that assessment was made through observation, practical work and discussion during normal lessons.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for all practical purposes
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For all practical purposes , the cleanup of the oil spill is complete.
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For all practical purposes , the country is bankrupt.
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But, for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift.
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Computerized free language indexing is, for all practical purposes , the same as natural language indexing.
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Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us.
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Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes , lost.
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The edit display screen can only be used, for all practical purposes , for cutting and pasting.
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Yet for all practical purposes , Windows was Macintosh.
in general/practical/financial etc terms
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A joint communiqué issued after the meetings was couched in general terms and did not refer to the cessation of hostilities.
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I can understand why the whole phlogiston business would have been thought less than important in practical terms .
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Rather than talking in general terms about the desirability of renewal, he began to talk in concrete terms of a timetable.
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These will be stated in general terms for the whole allocation.
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They are, in practical terms , the experts.
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They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well.
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Those aspects of the business not capable of being expressed in financial terms may have an important effect on its success.
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Yet in intellectual and to some extent in practical terms her attitudes were overwhelmingly conservative.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a type of floor covering that is simple, practical , and cheap
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Automakers are trying to develop a practical electric car design.
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Babysitting coupons are a practical gift any parent will love.
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Campbell considers himself a practical man.
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He's really smart and really practical - he can fix anything.
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Liederman offers practical advice about coping with losing your job.
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Small economy cars are more practical if you live in the city.
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The company specializes in making practical footwear for the leisure sports market.
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Voters make their choices based on practical considerations.
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We have to be practical and not spend so much money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time, pupils are also exposed to one practical application of the microcomputer which will be relevant outside school.
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Modifications and additions will be needed to suit practical cases.
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Religion, combined with practical help, can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
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Sometimes this shared understanding may lead to more practical solutions.
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The consumption of ducks has increased in recent years, so it may be practical to define the various classes of ducks.
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There are practical assessments, orals and so on.
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This mapping is spiritual, but also practical , for people need to know the patterns of nature.
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You are often the first to join societies, to give practical help, to volunteer your practical skills all round.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We've got our chemistry practical tomorrow morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, in electronics practicals there used to be a large number of boys who'd done electronics at school.
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The number of hours spent in lectures, tutorials or practicals varies for each individual.
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We got on with the practicals while the staff held a meeting to discuss how to control the epidemic.