noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of practice/conduct/ethics (= rules for people in a particular profession or business )
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There is a strict code of conduct for doctors.
a practice session
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He crashed during a practice session before this Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.
accepted practice
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Having more than one wife is a normal and accepted practice in some countries.
an age-old tradition/practice/custom etc British English
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age-old customs
best practice
established practice (= a particular way of doing something, that is accepted as the best way )
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Not allowing patients to eat before surgery is established practice.
exam practice
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Schools say they have to spend too much time doing exam practice.
family practice
general practice
group practice
piano practice
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Have you done your piano practice?
private practice
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Richard set up in private practice.
restrictive practices
standard practice/procedure (= the usual way of doing things )
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Searching luggage at airports is now standard practice.
teaching practice British English , student teaching American English (= a period of teaching done by someone who is training to be a teacher )
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There were 90 hours of teaching practice, of which 20 were supervised.
work practices
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She supported me enthusiastically in bringing in new work practices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
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Is clinical practice supervised and formally assessed before course completion?
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How much control of clinical practice should be included in the monitoring schemes?
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Measurement of the albumin excretion rate requires an accurately timed collection of urine, which is difficult in routine clinical practice .
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Patients treated with triple therapy, however, complain of considerable side effects which endangers compliance in routine clinical practice .
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In clinical practice grommet insertion may be performed for a number of different indications apart from hearing loss.
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His monument in clinical practice was the model child guidance service in the then Borough of West Ham.
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Modern routine clinical practice however offers something of a dilution of the original Jacobsonian relaxation techniques.
current
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Teachers who use these books can draw on the banks of ideas they provide to extend and diversify their current practice .
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This approach tends to preserve previous spending patterns because planned expenditure is based on historical and current practice .
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The compulsory and emergency nature of the initial admission, however, is no different from the trend in current practice .
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First, however, consideration must be given to the other major approach to assessment that informs current practice .
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We begin therefore by considering our current practice , and then looking at how the National Curriculum fits in.
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There are obviously many questions to ask in matching current practice with the new programmes.
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The way that university library budgets are calculated is changing, and there is no reliable overview of current practice .
general
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Preventative medicine should be practised in every general practice surgery in the country.
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I spent more time with the law, along with family, in a general , small practice .
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The model that we have developed is to attach students in pairs to a general practice tutor in a teaching practice.
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The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals.
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However, his prospects then are better than in general practice .
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Editor, - Renewed interest in the activities and professional training of counsellors in general practice is welcome.
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Nor was this general practice in Abraham's tie.
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This approach would have to be aimed primarily at general practice .
good
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Education minister Estelle Morris has persuaded the company to work with 50 beacon schools to spread best practice .
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The Centre will develop scenarios on emerging international markets in services, establish a database and produce company cases recording best practice .
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It is good practice to make a note of the client's telephone number on the file.
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Family health services authorities should foster good practice by disseminating information.
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This might well be good practice in the county court.
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Whatever the degree of response finally obtained it is good practice to investigate possible non-randomness and hence bias.
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Provided such views are informed by good practice teachers should remain confident of their own expertise.
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The first example is the view that it is good primary practice to have children working in groups.
legal
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No doubt many fewer laymen are aware of the parallel legal practice of precedent.
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I am now looking forward to applying this experience in the context of a legal practice .
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Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.
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Bill padding has become so endemic to legal practice that it is generally regarded as a joke.
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So unilateralism is not even a remotely eligible interpretation of our legal conduct and practice .
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What happened next is significant to people who are familiar with law enforcement and legal practice in Dallas.
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Conveyancing is an area of legal practice where there is traditionally some degree of co-operation between practitioners.
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I follow a basic rule of legal practice: Establish the price, get the money, then go to work.
medical
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In the 1660s and 1670s Coxe established a successful medical practice in London.
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Efforts were made to curb unlicensed medical practice and to improve the standards of that profession.
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This duty to disclose is not limited by medical practice , it is set by law.
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The Moniz medical practice was disrupted by demonstrators opposed to psychosurgery.
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Modern medical practice , particularly with older people, has many shortcomings about which the counsellor needs to be aware.
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The parties were partners in a general medical practice in central London.
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Assessing standards and comparing outcomes are important in medical practice and allow comparison of different units and appropriate allocation of resources.
normal
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The management of Disinfection Disinfection in normal practice presents a challenge to management.
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But the new law failed to change normal practice , and such cases remained rare.
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The normal practice is to appoint a Cabinet of fifteen to twenty-five members.
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I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable.
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Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end - this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths.
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It is normal practice for the vendor to disclose various documents to the purchaser as part of the disclosure exercise.
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Ingle was kept in a sedated coma, normal practice in such cases.
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Live plucking was normal practice by the commoners, in order to ensure quills of the best quality.
private
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Instead of going into private practice , or after some years of practice, the solicitor may seek an appointment.
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Even after he left government for private practice , Quinn was able to reach Holder on the telephone.
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Articles which are available in commerce or industry may well include a period in private practice .
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The study was of 482 children who were cared for by a private pediatric practice in suburban Philadelphia.
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This latter point was supported by a small number of respondents from private practice .
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Daley had, in fact, only recently gone into private practice with his friend Lynch.
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Solicitors and barristers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive.
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Registered dietitians can be located through hospitals and clinics, and many are in private practice .
professional
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In addition many courses involve periods of unpaid professional practice and work experience within the academic year.
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For each professional within the practice a training programme should be devised.
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These courses are strongly orientated towards industry and professional practice .
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The only reason for defining abuse is to ensure that incidents are identified and reduced by good professional and managerial practice .
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Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice .
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The Sub-Committee continued its review of the professional practice examination system.
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The procedures adopted on enquiries are a complete contrast to those in professional practice .
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Incentives Payment by results is a dangerous area in a professional practice .
social
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She reviews the philosophies that have shaped the acquisition of knowledge and skill development in social group work practice .
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This reflects many of the factors already discussed about the development of social work practice with old people.
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The chapter concludes with some examples of how insights gained from psychotherapy can be useful in social work practice .
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Many support activities utilized traditional social work skills and were indistinguishable from much social work practice .
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Lukács claimed that labour became the model for any social practice .
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How many other aspects of social work practice could benefit from a fundamental reappraisal of guiding philosophies?
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It is particularly appropriate for social work practice with vulnerable elderly people.
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Communication is a social practice and even if systematic distortion is removed, existential determination is not.
standard
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Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases.
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But fee waiving is standard practice among money funds.
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This is standard practice , but such an event is unlikely.
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This, I learned, was standard practice when a customer was about to be sacrificed for the greater good of Salomon.
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The first is the wide variation in specification and finish that are standard practice in the motor industry.
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Such abbreviated language is standard practice and will be widely adopted in the remainder of this book.
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This was, in fact, standard practice and Barratt was fully aware of it.
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Philip Redfern suggested it should become standard practice for statisticians to put their professional advice on the record.
■ NOUN
classroom
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There are also extensive entries on classroom practice , teaching methods, the language laboratory and the psychology of learning.
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It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice - both in curriculum content and methodology.
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Nor did everyone see the need for an update on current classroom practice .
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The great majority of practitioners proclaimed their belief in the only way they could - through sound classroom practice .
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The desire is rarely reflected in classroom practice .
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How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ?
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First, it is clear that the way classroom practice is defined and talked about must change.
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Details of different methods of using the program and examples of classroom practice will be helpful.
target
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It is merely target practice using live targets.
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He knew that on these streets young kids with guns used people on the sidewalks for target practice .
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Firstly in a country full of guns it doesn't do to stand there asking to become target practice .
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A downtown establishment has always made for satisfying target practice .
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After sundown, a bit of target practice on the estate, using his collection of sophisticated weapons.
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For the cynics of the world, Philip Gould is easy target practice .
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It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice .
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Prisoners taken were blinded, mutilated, dragged behind the hooves of horses and used as target practice by archers.
teaching
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Term 5 contains a block teaching practice , and thus the course has a programme allocation of five weeks.
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Parental involvement is crucial, both in terms of political campaigning and in terms of developing relevant language teaching practice .
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The model that we have developed is to attach students in pairs to a general practice tutor in a teaching practice.
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This effectively reduces the teaching practice experience to years four and six.
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Students are invited to undertake a programme combining, concurrently, the traditional teaching practice with a social work placement.
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It is easy to understand the excitement that such new teaching practice could generate.
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I expect that I shall think of the term's work as a preparation for the second teaching practice .
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They had 100 hours and 120 hours of teaching practice respectively.
work
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The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.
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She reviews the philosophies that have shaped the acquisition of knowledge and skill development in social group work practice .
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This reflects many of the factors already discussed about the development of social work practice with old people.
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The chapter concludes with some examples of how insights gained from psychotherapy can be useful in social work practice .
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Many support activities utilized traditional social work skills and were indistinguishable from much social work practice .
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How many other aspects of social work practice could benefit from a fundamental reappraisal of guiding philosophies?
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It is particularly appropriate for social work practice with vulnerable elderly people.
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Investigative child protection interviews are one of the most challenging areas of social work practice .
■ VERB
accept
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It was accepted as a general practice that children would be better educated in the sending country after the age of seven.
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Process assessments compare the documented care with what is accepted as optimum practice based on current scientific nutrition knowledge and expert opinion.
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Secondly, I find it impossible to accept that general practice is a specialty.
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I realized in my reaction to all this how Westernized I had become, for this was very much an accepted practice .
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Hayek accepts the primacy of practice in the construction of human knowledge.
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So we recommend that advance notification of commission should come to be accepted as good trading practice .
follow
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Ashore, Stan Weatherall and Peter Harris followed the general practice in a beach-head: lending a hand where they could.
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A rather typical instance of the way such fears develop can be seen in the following incidents from our practice .
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They can either follow customary practice and offer cash buyers a discount or charge the credit card buyer a surcharge.
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Classes will be held daily from 8 to 10 p. m., followed by practice at local tango bars until midnight.
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In choosing not to call the police but to take action himself, Mr Waller was following an escalating practice in Britain.
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Where there is only one accepted practice , then following this practice will not amount to negligence.
put
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It's time to put his theories into practice and find out the reality.
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Make a habit of putting your AH-HAs into practice as soon as possible alter reading them.
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Anyway, you can't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice .
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While the federal policy shift began a decade ago, forest managers have been slow to put it into practice .
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Many variations on the combination theme can be put into practice .
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If so, he was about to have an opportunity to put it into practice .
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How they were put into practice is discussed in Chapter Three.
teach
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As with other subject areas of the course, electronic publishing is taught through theory and practice .
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Like Zen meditation, sensory awareness is not a teaching but a practice ....
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On teaching practice the students operated quite differently from what would have happened under the old system.
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There are still people out there who teach and practice fair play, sportsmanship, and competition.
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He was a slightly-built student called Abdulla, here on teaching practice .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
common practice
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Today it is common practice to let children choose their own topics for writing.
put sth into action/effect/practice
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Forest managers have been slow to put the plan into practice.
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But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice.
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But there is a long way to go before he establishes a stable government that can put these qualities into action.
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Charles, however, was determined to use the farm at Highgrove as a model to put his ideas into practice.
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Guide us to recognise how great are your resources, and inspire us to put your plans into action.
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If so, he was about to have an opportunity to put it into practice.
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It's time to put his theories into practice and find out the reality.
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The next stage is to implement it or put it into action.
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The next step is to put them into practice.
sharp practice
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His grandfather had made a fortune out of a piece of commercial sharp practice in the 19th century.
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We couldn't discover anything specific, but there was definitely some sharp practice going on.
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Any kind of sharp practice or dishonest dealing will infallibly ruin his career.
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At times these adjustments verge on sharp practice enabled by the fact that ingredients do not have to be revealed.
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But trams also had to face some sharp practice from competing bus companies.
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In it he mentions several examples of sharp practice in the laboratory, one or two of which are new to me.
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Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset, they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses.
working practices/methods
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But it will coincide with political pressure for doctors to accept fundamental changes in their working practices.
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However, only 44% had changed their working practices.
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New working practices would be introduced once passenger services were privatised which would be more flexible.
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The accident happened because of a culture in which working practices were not checked, Whitehaven magistrates heard.
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The courses, examinations and working practices have been based on their perceptions.
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Their work allowed them to identify working methods and the characteristics of particular ateliers.
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Those familiar with the work and working methods of Frank Auerbach may find all this oddly familiar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are you going to choir practice ?
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Doctors want to educate teenagers about unsafe sexual practices.
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During the summer, the team has two practices a day.
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I scored two goals at hockey practice tonight.
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I try and get some practice in before classes.
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soccer practice
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the religious beliefs and practices of Hindus
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There are only three more practices before the concert.
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You're getting better - you just need a little more practice .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond that, everything else is essentially a context-specific attempt to put those few universal principles into practice .
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He earned this disputable title by his thoughtful approach to critical issues and the undeniable distinction of his critical practice .
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In practice , the student will necessarily miss some continuity because of days off and night duty.
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One has to distinguish between the individual and the practice .
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Secondly, while it wishes pupils to experience freedom, in practice it is easy for the teacher to determine the structure.
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Stark said as we stood on the practice putting green of the Crieff Golf Club.
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This approach flies in the face of established practice .