Sentence examples for practically set from inspiring English sources

You could practically set your watch by Cupid showing you her knickers.

The news of the indictments came almost as an anticlimax to the months of investigations, during which F.B.I. agents had practically set up shop in the town's police headquarters and morale among the police force had plunged.

Where to eat Jatetxea Sagardotegia Balentina (Restaurante Sidrería Balentina) The cider house restaurant is a Basque institution in which the menu is practically set in stone: juicy tortilla of salt cod, followed by lamb chops a la brasa.

The rules are not due to be applied until January 2007, but if that deadline is to be met, Basel 2 must be practically set in stone by this May.The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which is drawing up the rules, is pleased with the results of its third (and supposedly last) impact study.

You can practically set your watch by this one!

The threshold of data accumulation is denoted by Data_TH (bits), which is practically set as the capacity of a time frame.

Second, the printer practically sets itself up.

As Elisa, Hawkins is a mesmerizing presence, and even though she's primarily a land-dweller, Alexandre Desplat's score along with the set design's dreamy greens and blues— practically sets her afloat.

This practically means set up the error management, by creating and opening a log file, load the environment variables and setting all global variables for later usage.

Although this is not in a legally-binding scheme, practically this sets the framework of the Shinkansen construction for the next decade.

A warm farewell for a man who failed in practically everything he set out to do.