(n.) A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the Nao+-Mgi2+ exchange system has an absolute requirement for ATP and that it is more probable that ATP is supplying energy for transport rather than activating transport by protein phosphorylation or simply by binding.
(2) Will Iain Duncan Smith confirm the facts in today's NAO report.
(3) Ko+ less than Nao+ less than Lio+ less than Mgo2+ reduce furosemide-resistant Rb+ inward leakage relative to cholineo+.
(4) On Tuesday the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report on financial management at the BBC saying the corporation should do more to streamline internal financial reporting, and monitor more closely whether its spending decisions were aligned with its strategic and editorial objectives.
(5) "The BBC's internal financial reporting and planning processes are slow and resource intensive," the NAO said.
(6) We want to build 1m more English homes by 2020, says government Read more “If it is to oversee the new programme effectively, then this must specifically include tracking sale proceeds and progress with the actual construction of new homes, and oversee the programme in a way that gives parliament and the taxpayer much greater assurance over the value for money achieved from all disposals.” A statement from the DCLG did not address the main criticisms contained within the PAC report, and repeated figures that had been disputed by the NAO.
(7) Under constant voltage clamp (-80 mV) inward currents were measured after the addition of Nao+ to 0-Na+ 0-Ca2+ saline and outward currents were measured after the addition of Cao2+ to 0-Na+ 0-Ca2+ saline.
(8) The public accounts committee, which receives reports from the NAO, has heavily criticised the corporation and the BBC Trust, which have resisted full disclosure .
(9) Housing is a key issue and this does not give me any confidence that the department has a grip on its own figures.” Jeremy Blackburn, head of policy at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: “The NAO report has shown what was suspected by many.
(10) Thompson concludes that the evidence given to the NAO and the PAC on 10 July was "inadequate, and in some important instances, very misleading testimony".
(11) The pre-briefing we’re seeing, tinkering with schedules, now going on about pay, it’s very, very threatening to an institution that’s loved, [even one] that needs to reform.” Jeremy Hunt was the last culture minister to try to increase NAO oversight at the BBC, in 2010.
(12) The NAO says the new patient records have been implemented in a tiny minority of trusts while other IT systems, such as the digitisation of x-ray images, have been achieved.
(13) However, the timing was “primarily driven by the desire to sell prior to the 2015 general election”, said the NAO.
(14) The NAO said the decision helped save around £1.5bn in future interest payments and ensured these bondholders contributed to the costs of nationalisation.
(15) Enrichment of erythrocytes with cholesteryl hemisuccinate caused a marked reduction in Li leak but did not change kinetic and thermodynamic properties of Lii-Nao countertransport of either normotensive persons or patients with essential hypertension.
(16) Recovery from a Ca2+ load caused by reversal of the Na+ gradient could be induced by removal of Cao2+ in the continuing absence of Nao+, indicating the importance of a Na(+)-independent [Ca2+]i-lowering system.
(17) The BBC said that the Broadcasting House redevelopment, in addition to its two other major capital projects included in today's NAO report, came at a time of "profound and unprecedented transformation".
(18) Nao inhibited ouabain binding in the absence of Ki or Ko, so Nao and Ko also act at different sites.
(19) The NAO also discovered instances in which departing managers were given large payoffs even after they had found work elsewhere, and examples of staff who were offered consultancy roles at the time of their departure.
(20) TV coverage of Wimbledon in 2008 was £700,000 above the BBC's approved budget of £3.5m, although the NAO emphasised that four out of the other five came in at or below budget.
Portico
Definition:
(n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.
(2) In a letter to a corporation official, Cottam wrote: "Desecration: graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on to the restored pillars of the west portico.
(3) In its current state there is some confusion: what the architecture strongly suggests is the front door, beneath a boldly overhanging portico, is not in fact the front door, and visitors have to seek out a more obscure entrance around the side.
(4) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
(5) The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.
(6) There are also three nods for jazz artists, namely Polar Bear’s In Each And Every One, GoGo Penguin’s v2.0 and First Mind by Nick Mulvey, who was formerly a member of previous nominees Portico Quartet.
(7) Aside from rock duo Royal Blood and indie band Bombay Bicycle Club – whose So Long, See You Tomorrow is a rather more inventive and interesting album than their nondescript image suggests – the rest of the list concentrates largely on albums by artists who have yet to really gain mass attention: poet Kate Tempest's debut for independent hip-hop label Big Dada; Nick Mulvey, a former member of Mercury-nominated jazz collective Portico Quartet turned singer-songwriter; electronic auteur East India Youth; idiosyncratic Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers; FKA Twigs, whose avant-garde take on R'n'B might have been conceived with the express intention of getting on the Mercury shortlist.
(8) The influence of Italian colonists may still be seen in the dilapidated stone porticos of Asmara’s central market and the disused railway line running down to the Red Sea coast.
(9) The beige modern building overlooks a playground; its entrance is a grand remnant from an older structure, with columns and a portico; the ground floor is home to classrooms and 326 pupils.
(10) Yes, he and the RIBA might agree on matters of sustainability, and will work together on these in the future, yet at heart there remains as gap as wide as the portico of the west front of St Paul's Cathedral.
(11) Like other Britons in failing health who choose to depart through the modernist portico leading to the Dignitas organisation in a Zurich apartment, their deaths last Friday triggered a police inquiry.
(12) Railway locomotives of the 1830s were often decked out in neoclassical or gothic ornament designed to disguise their rude mechanical parts, while Britain's first mainline trunk railway, the London to Birmingham, concealed its terminus at Euston behind a giant Greek Doric portico.
(13) While the restaurant stretches over a bright, modern two-floor dining room, the place to be is sitting beneath the vaulted portico at one of the tables set between each of the marble columns, looking out over the garden and the palace’s ornate dome.
(14) The public greetings were measured and diplomatically warm – Melania Trump handing over a blue Tiffany gift box under the North Portico.
(15) Mark Knoller (@markknoller) In pouring rain, GOP Senators boarding their buses parked in front of the North Portico.
(16) Her noodle stall is sheltered from the rain by the vast portico of a government bank, built in the 1930s by the British when Burma was part of the empire.
(17) The breach set off security alarms but Gonzalez outran pursuing officers, ignoring their commands that he stop, and entered the North Portico doors.
(18) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
(19) Yet standing on the West Portico of the Capitol, on the spot where John F Kennedy spoke 56 years ago, he unfurled the slogan of Lindbergh and Buchanan as the mission of his presidency.
(20) The account differed starkly from a press release issued by the secret service theday after the incident, which merely said Gonzalez was “physically apprehended after entering the White House North Portico doors”.