(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(3) One group of rats (non-adapted) were anaesthetized (ip) with pentobarbital (P), urethane (U), ketamine (A), or althesin (A) without being accustomed to the laboratory environment prior to anaesthesia.
(4) They became accustomed to the pulse generator after a mean of 3.6 months.
(5) Southampton will be confident they can play through adversity, though Koeman admits that will become increasingly difficult over the festive period, a time when newcomers such as Tadic, Pellè and Mané are accustomed to having a winter break.
(6) The pathologist and those concerned with frequent performance of autopsies become accustomed to it.
(7) Accustomed to a world in which violence is pervasive, life is cheap and the public authorities – police and judiciary – cannot be relied upon to keep the peace or administer justice, many of Brazil's young men go armed and ready to use their weapons.
(8) Animals accustomed to the prescribed eating patterns ate promptly and at similarly rapid rates at all times of day.
(9) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.
(10) A relationship was found between the setting of the practice and consulting behaviour: 20% of those who practised alone never consulted peers, whereas those in group practices and health centres were accustomed to do so regularly.
(11) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(12) Now, some are accustomed to Dawkins being a bit of a troll.
(13) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(14) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(15) In a first series of experiments rats were accustomed for two weeks to eat chow with capsaicin (250 micrograms: 1 g of food).
(16) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(17) The former BHS boss delivered his evidence with all the expansive confidence of a man accustomed to getting his own way from politicians for most of his long career.
(18) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(19) The son of Malaysia's second prime minister, the nephew of its third, president of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno), and a former defence minister, Najib was born to power and is accustomed to wielding it.
(20) And that's why bilingual children can say that "Apples grow on noses" is said the right way: they are accustomed to resolving the conflict between form and meaning.
Unused
Definition:
(a.) Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.
(a.) Not habituated; unaccustomed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
(2) After elution of the complex from the beads a new cycle of capture, washing and release of the target-capture-reporter-probe complex is initiated by the additions of unused (dT)-tailed beads.
(3) A total of 20 deep-frying fat samples and 2 unused control fat samples was tested.
(4) Filtration of spent medium, adjustment of pH, addition of urea, and reinoculation permitted growth at the same rate and to the same titer as that observed in unused medium.
(5) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(6) Graham Greene’s American agent, Alden Pyle, has an “unused face” and a “wide campus gaze”.
(7) Each of these devices had around five large nails sticking through a piece of wood and rendered the police vehicles unusable on what is traditionally one of the busiest nights of the year.
(8) All patients showed clinical signs of infection (loss of red reflex, diminished visual acuity, and intraocular lens coagulum) and P. aeruginosa was isolated from vitreous aspirates and unused lenses of the same lot.
(9) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
(10) (ii) No messages contain internal, unused polyadenylation signals.
(11) The procedure is offered as a satisfactory solution to the problem of transferring free flaps in cases where recipient site vessels are absent or unusable.
(12) Five unused containers of ACS were obtained as controls.
(13) Therapy after the reservoir was unusable, particularly with arterial obstruction by catheter, was restricted because arterial infusion therapy was impossible.
(14) Furthermore, when this promoter region was removed, Tn5 was able to transpose into previously unused upstream target sequences.
(15) The protest, one of the biggest liberal opposition demonstrations in years, is certain to worry a state that looks down on opposition and is long unused to a politically conscious public.
(16) Ill-equipped, ill-trained and unused to the tough conditions, these “Afghan Arabs”, as they were known, were seen more as a nuisance than an aid by the local men who constituted 95% or more of the fighters.
(17) The speed of anastomosis is at least as rapid as the posterior wall technique on which it is based, and it has the advantage of having fewer unused penetrations of the vessel wall and better eversion of the edges.
(18) Peritoneal macrophages and polymorphonuclear leucocytes were incubated in unused peritoneal dialysis fluid.
(19) If it can only launch its weapons on receiving orders from the top, they risk being rendered unusable by a surprise “decapitation” strike on the Chinese leadership.
(20) Seromuscular layers were normal at both ends of the lesion; there was some flattening of villi at the proximal, dilated end, and hyperplasia with apparently lengthened, branched villi at the distal, unused one.