(adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
(adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
() An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.
(n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
Example Sentences:
(1) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
(2) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(3) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
(4) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(5) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(6) First, contact your school, even if you are no longer a student there, recommends Ben Morse, head of Year 13 at the Piggott school, Reading.
(7) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
(8) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(9) The culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, added: "If [the digital economy bill] gets on to the statute books it will be with the co-operation of the opposition party and hopefully the Liberal Democrats and others too.
(10) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(11) Netanyahu 'told New Zealand backing UN vote would be declaration of war' Read more “What secretary Kerry will be doing is he will give a speech in which he lays out a comprehensive vision for how we see the conflict being resolved – where we see things in 2016 as we unfortunately conclude our term in office without there being significant progress toward peace,” the deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, told Israel’s Channel 2 television.
(12) Nor is Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, like Ben Ali.
(13) "Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dali," Obama's campaign spokesman, Ben LaBolt, emailed reporters.
(14) Ben Arfa does everything right again, apart from his finish.
(15) Aiyenugba duly saved Ben Frej's effort as Enyimba prevailed 5-3 and retained their crown.
(16) "A good game will have the expected progression at the end of each level, but it will also provide surprise rewards halfway through," says Ben Weedon, a consultant at PlayableGames, a company that carries out usability testing on new titles before they're released.
(17) Among more than 10,000 patients presenting to the Ben Taub Emergency Center over an 11-year period with thoracic injuries, 100 had clinical or radiographic clues suggestive of blunt trauma decelerative injury to the great vessels.
(18) Hunt joined culture secretary Ben Bradshaw in criticising the BBC Trust, the corporation's regulatory and governance body, saying viewers and listeners needed something that would better represent them.
(19) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
(20) BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, issued a statement announcing that Benny Johnson, the viral politics editor, had been sacked, and apologising to users of the site.
Bes
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) By flow cytometry, neither BES nor DFMO induced obvious perturbations in the cell cycle.
(2) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(3) Mutants of Methanococcus voltae were isolated that were resistant to the coenzyme M (CoM; 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) analog 2-bromoethanesulfonic acid (BES).
(4) After 8 months, following vasectomy, the response to BES at 24 hours was similar to that of controls.
(5) Fieldhouse said a significant advantage of the BES over commercial polls, which normally survey around 1,000 people, was that it tracked the same, much larger cohort of voters.
(6) Transformation of peripheral blood leucocytes was shown to be a valid assay for cell-mediated immunity to sperm in male guinea-pigs immunized with homologous epididymal sperm (heat treated extract-BES) in FCA.
(7) Evidence includes (1) growth with N2 as the sole nitrogen source; (2) incorporation of 15N2 into cellular material (both soluble amino acid pools and insoluble cell protein and other macromolecules) detected by 15N-NMR spectroscopy; (3) acetylene reduction to ethylene by the cells, and inhibition of this reaction by bromoethanesulfonic acid (BES), a methanogen inhibitor.
(8) All animals with SES, which were treated with coumadines, and all animals with BES (untreated) had patent stents after one week.
(9) The most plausible reading is that something has gone right with the face-to-face BES sampling which had gone wrong with all the pre-election internet and phone polls.
(10) The cleansing effect of whole-gut irrigation with a balanced electrolyte solution (BES), with or without pretreatment with bisacodyl, was compared, in order to establish whether bisacodyl reduces the duration and side effects of whole-gut irrigation.
(11) Two of the three most important factors affecting voting yes in the first wave of the BES were how voters felt independence would affect the general economic situation in the country, and their own personal economic situation," Fieldhouse wrote in a BES blog.
(12) The skin reactions to BES and to a purified protein derivative (PPD) in females were similar to those of any standard protein antigen.
(13) And how they're going to generate significant revenue from BES and BBM, and create a company driven by those two parallel paths – right now, the path isn't clear."
(14) The results indicate that oocytes cultured in medium supplemented with BES and gonadotrophins reveal high rates of maturation and development to the blastocyst stage after fertilization with fresh ejaculated spermatozoa.
(15) "We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic," said the commander, who wore a balaclava and identified himself by his nom de guerre, Bes – Russian for demon.
(16) BES differed distinctly from the ODC inhibitor by decreasing spermine pools, and by not increasing S-adenosyl-methionine decarboxylase activity, S-adenosylmethionine pools, or stimulating cellular uptake of polyamines.
(17) The cell death resulting from BES treatment is in direct contrast to results obtained with DFMO and occurs at concentrations of less than 10 microM, whereas 5 mM DFMO is required to maintain growth inhibition in NCI H157.
(18) The calculation of these Beam's Eye Section (BES) images requires a set of medium-to high-resolution transverse section data (the 3-D dataset), as well as a medium- to high-performance computer workstation.
(19) Both HS-CoM and CH3-S-CoM prevented the uptake of BES and protected cells from inhibition by it.
(20) The female subscales of the Body Esteem Scale (BES) have demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity in two previous studies.