Sentence examples for they were practised from inspiring English sources

Are the visual arts, as they were practised down the centuries, all over, replaced for ever by installations and digital images?

"They would tell us they were practising speaking Geordie in the playground".

Students are able to consult high calibre experts, as they would do if they were practising lawyers.

It is believed they asked travellers to recite passages from the Koran, shooting dead those who were unable to prove they were practising Muslims.

Before the series the Australians were quick to mock England's trip to Spain specifically to work on their fielding as a beano while they were practising hard.

guffer68 was luckier: I had the most amazing view of the Chinese synchronised swimming team doing their jaw-droppingly amazing routine - they were practising in the diving pool at our local swimming baths yesterday.

MGs practised a focused attention meditation technique; ECGs were told that they were practising meditation but were given instructions for a sham meditation.

On 15 August, they were practising a low-level routine when they flew into a hill at 500 mph, killing all four pilots and two passengers.

The sessions were problematic, with minor disagreements over the style and pace of the songs they were practising; the running order decided on the eve of the event.

In response, Pyongyang displayed a show of strength by launching four ballistic missiles at once — suggesting they were practising for an attack on U.S. military bases in Japan.

The song seemed simple enough when he first presented it, but it soon became impossibly difficult to learn and they eventually realised that while they were practising it, Barrett kept changing the arrangement.