Sentence examples for had practically been from inspiring English sources

In the past few weeks, the industry's lawyers had practically been begging for a quick ruling.

The category had practically been created to encompass the boom in animation inspired by the rivalry between DreamWorks and Disney.

On their first visit to the Health Ministry, they had practically been laughed out of the building, but now they had once more been promised their clinics.

It is not believed, however, that any serious check had occurred, since certainly all the important points had practically been settled before M. Cambon returned to Berlin.

Those tears, he said, were for the closing of a show that had practically been his daily routine for almost two years, but they were also for much else.

In Tennessee, the Democratic Party, which had dominated state politics for all of living memory, and which, indeed, had practically been invented in Tennessee (Andrew Jackson lived within a hundred miles of where Senator Gore was born), seemed to have expired practically overnight.

In the past, for example, the term "undocumented" has practically been banned as a euphemism.

And since the 90's, it has practically been de rigueur as a subject for art.

Over the last few years Carnegie Hall has practically been Daniel Barenboim's home away from home.

In Hollywood, respecting the silence has practically been a condition of employment.

The Ray Lewis he saw in 2008 and the Kerry Collins he will see Saturday have practically been reborn.