What's the difference between oft and toft?

Oft


Definition:

  • (a.) Frequent; often; repeated.
  • (adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
  • (2) The CK-M expression in the developing outflow tract (OFT) and conduction system is described in detail.
  • (3) The objectives of this study were to document the official oral fluid therapy (OFT) policies of all the ministries of health in South Africa and of the four provincial authorities, to determine what methods of OFT are used in hospitals providing paediatric care, to determine the OFT methods recommended by hospital staff for use at home, to establish the level of support for the idea of one national policy for OFT and to determine what senior academic paediatricians think about these issues.
  • (4) Further, the oft-reported psychiatric troubles preceding MS clinical onset suggest that at least in some MS patients there are specific gaps in personality structure dating back to early phases of their development.
  • (5) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
  • (6) In a report – which described the payday lending and debt management industry as opaque and poorly regulated – the influential committee said the government should outline a timetable within six months for deciding whether control of consumer credit will be transferred from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a new regulator replacing the Financial Services Authority.
  • (7) Following a review and consultation with Ofcom, the OFT found that despite ITV's market position declining, it remains almost the only provider of very large commercial audiences.
  • (8) There is no doubt that it is getting tougher.” Sheng, whose book, Northern Girls, follows the lives of China’s oft-exploited female migrant workers, said she believed an author’s calling was to write about the problems of society: the “injustice, the inequality and the darkness”.
  • (9) There is the oft-quoted structural shift from print to web for both consumers and advertisers.
  • (10) That is, if their oft-stated commitment to move away from outdated north-south approaches is genuine.
  • (11) The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) warned last year that there was “insufficient visibility and comparability of charges” to ensure that competition in the market was fully effective.
  • (12) "However, in order to ensure that any potential conclusions from the OFT's processes can be taken into account in the trust's own decision, we will await the OFT's findings and will publish our final conclusions on Project Canvas later this spring."
  • (13) The former London mayor Ken Livingstone tried to sell an afternoon distribution slot on the tube network after the OFT's 2005 ruling, prompting interest from Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers and News International.
  • (14) And in a direct contradiction of the oft-stated view of the Israeli leadership, he asserted: "you do have a true partner" in Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad.
  • (15) As part of the transition from OFT to FCA, from Autumn 2013 existing OFT licence holders will need to apply for interim permission so they can continue to operate.
  • (16) The OFT welcomed what it called "very clear confirmation" that it could assess current account terms and conditions on fairness.
  • (17) The oft-quoted 5-cm rule for melanoma excision is not valid.
  • (18) Yesterday, the supreme court delivered a shock decision when it ruled that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) could not challenge overdraft charges because it does not have the power to decide whether they are unfair.
  • (19) Furniture Village said it was aware of the OFT investigations but added that it would be inappropriate for it to comment or confirm its involvement until its findings were published.
  • (20) Then, in the summer of 2007, the payouts stopped after the OFT announced a test case against eight current account providers in a bid to establish the legality of the charges once and for all.

Toft


Definition:

  • (n.) A knoll or hill.
  • (n.) A grove of trees; also, a plain.
  • (n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 55, 357 (1983)] and later expanded upon by Tofts and Wray.
  • (2) A monoclonal antibody (MAb), designated PR-6, produced against chick oviduct progesterone receptors [Sullivan, W. P., Beito, T. G., Proper, J., Krco, C. J., & Toft, D. O.
  • (3) Critical pundits are unconvinced by it all – Mark Lawrenson pledges to shave his moustache off if they stay up – but January signings Stig Tofting, Fredi Bobic and Youri Djorkaeff help defy the odds and secure 16th place.
  • (4) The Active Learning Trust, which oversees five schools, has paid £16,943 to a company owned by trustee, Marilyn Toft.
  • (5) Over the past two decades, a great deal of evidence has accumulated in favor of the hypothesis that steroid hormones act at the level of nuclear DNA to regulate gene expression (Jensen EV, Suzuki T, Kawashima T, Stumpf WE, Jungblut PW, DeSombre ER, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1968; 59:632-638; Gorski J, Toft D, Shyamala G, Smith D, Notides A, Rec Prog Horm Res 1968; 24:45-80; O'Malley BW, Means AR, Science 1974; 183:610-620; O'Malley BW, Roop DR, Lai EC, Nordstrom JL, Catterall JF, Swaneck GE, Colbert DA, Tsai M-J, Dugaiczyk A, Woo SLC, Rec Prog Horm Res 1979; 35:1-46).
  • (6) Incubation of molybdate-stabilized L cell cytosol with a monoclonal antibody directed against the 100-kDa glucocorticoid-binding protein causes the immune-specific adsorption to protein A-Sepharose of both the 100-kDa glucocorticoid receptor and the 90-kDa murine heat shock protein (hsp90) (Sanchez, E. R., Toft, D. O., Schlesinger, M. J., and Pratt, W. B.
  • (7) Both examiners examined the patients using a Toftness Electromagnetic Radiation Receiver (EMRR) and by manual palpation (MP) of the spinous processes.
  • (8) Two years later, former Bolton bouncer and third Mitchell brother Stig Tofting was sacked by his Danish club AGF for alledgedly chinning four of his team-mates.
  • (9) Incubations of 5.9S antiestrogen-receptor complexes with antibodies against nontransformed steroid receptor-associated proteins (the 59 and 90 kDa proteins) did not result in the interaction of this larger antiestrogen-receptor complex with these antibodies (obtained from L. E. Faber and D. O. Toft, respectively).

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