(a.) Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe.
(a.) Made of oatmeal; as, oaten cakes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Oaten said the Home Office claimed they received only 2,000 responses to the consultation.
(2) Home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten is to advocate what he describes as tough liberalism in penal reform.
(3) The Lib Dems' home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, said the cards would do nothing to combat terrorism or benefit fraud.
(4) a basal diet of sugar and oaten chaff which was supplemented with fish meal at various levels.
(5) Sulfur pools in the rumen and sulfur flows from the rumen were investigated in two experiments with sheep on a diet containing equal parts of oaten and lucerne chaffs.
(6) Groups of lambs were fed four levels of a diet based upon oaten grain.
(7) Mr Oaten said the proposal was "totally unacceptable".
(8) The party's home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, said yesterday: "As a third party you are necessarily a guerrilla army.
(9) The first product in its range was the oaten biscuit, made from oats grown on Home Farm, the organic farm on his Highgrove estate, in Gloucestershire.
(10) The protozoal populations in the rumen of cattle fed on the diet with the low level of oaten chaff were mainly small ciliates; but on the higher level of chaff in the diet, the large ciliates were a higher proportion of the total protozoal population present.
(11) He cemented his reputation with a string of scoops, from David Blunkett's resignation and Mark Oaten's misadventures to exclusives about David Beckham and Sven-Goran Eriksson.
(12) When we were in opposition and I was shadow home secretary, Mark Oaten, who was then the Lib Dem spokesman on home affairs, said to me: ‘We can only stand in your shadow when it comes to objecting to counter-terrorism laws because we are susceptible to being accused of being soft on terrorism whereas you aren’t.’ Oppositions are terrified of being accused of being soft on terrorism.
(13) "We wish to make it clear that it shall be illegal to disseminate both material that may incite terrorism, and material that may be of use to terrorists, such as training guides," Mr Clarke said in a letter to the shadow home secretary, David Davis, and to his counterpart, the Liberals' Mark Oaten.
(14) The ewes were fed on either chaffed oaten hay (OH), chaffed lucerne hay (L), or a mixture of chaffed oaten and lucerne hays (OHL).
(15) In each of three experiments, thirty seasonally anoestrous Border Leicester ewes were fed on a maintenance ration of oaten chaff.
(16) It had ended the leadership ambitions of Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten by revealing a gay affair, a typical NoW scoop, and published further revelations beyond its traditional showbiz heartland, including evidence that British troops had abused Iraqi prisoners.
(17) In both experiments sheep were fed a 50 : 50 oaten chaff: lucerne chaff ration at two levels of intake, and some animals received intraruminal infusions of DL-methionine.
(18) Of course, the scandal fundamentally altered the relationship between politicians and the media, as the likes of Cecil Parkinson, Jeffrey Archer and Mark Oaten were to discover.
Often
Definition:
(adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.
(a.) Frequent; common; repeated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(3) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(5) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(6) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(7) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(8) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
(9) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
(10) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
(11) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(12) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(13) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(14) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(15) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(17) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
(18) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(19) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
(20) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.