(1) It is shown that the PRAT is two to four times more sensitive than platelet complement fixation for the detection of HLA antibodies.
(2) "People will just turn away from [Labour] and think 'What are these prats playing at?
(3) Combination of PRAT and LCT afforded the best predictability and sensitivity was higher than for either PRAT or LCT alone (93 vs. 79 and 62%, respectively).
(4) In early July last year, thousands of customers endured four days of chaos at Barcelona-El Prat as Vueling cancelled scores of flights.
(5) The relative costs for a successful crossmatch were: PRAT less than LCT less than LCT + PRAT less than PSIFT less than ELISA.
(6) Three weeks before the coup, when the constitutionalist General Carlos Prats resigned as commander-in-chief amid growing political crisis, Allende appointed Pinochet to replace him in the belief that he was the only remaining loyal member of the army high command.
(7) The standard lymphocytotoxicity assay (LCT), a biotin-avidin enzyme immunoassay (ELISA), platelet suspension immunofluorescence test (PSIFT), and platelet radioactive antiglobulin test (PRAT) were examined in prospective crossmatching for selection of compatible random donor platelets for refractory patients.
(8) They did not persuade voters that he was a new kind of Tory; they made him look like a prat.
(9) This observation, along with the functionality of the cDNA in both yeast and CHO cells deficient in PRAT activity, suggests the isolated cDNA is full length.
(10) The crossmatch methods evaluated were a microlymphocytotoxicity test (LCT), an immunofluorescence technique (PSIFT), a radioactive antiglobulin test (PRAT), and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(11) Luis Suárez is banned for the game at Cornellà-El Prat after he became involved in a fracas after the end of last week’s first leg at Camp Nou, during which Espanyol had two players sent off.
(12) I love his braininess – his real new career is as an academic economist at Harvard – and his willingness to be a prat in public and the way he and Cooper seem to have worked out how to be a political couple as well as parents.
(13) By this time, a small group of officers had been imprisoned in Chile for human rights abuses, notably Pinochet's first secret police chief, General Manuel Contreras, who was jailed for the murder of Allende's former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, in Washington in 1976 (like Prats, Letelier was blown up by a bomb in his car).
(14) If it was a whole uprising or rebellion, of course we would worry more, but it’s just one prat.” But for some of those closest to the attack, the deaths had cast an unshakeable pall over their stay.
(15) As they powered down the aircraft on the tarmac of Barcelona's El Prat international airport, the personnel disembarking from a sleek Gulfstream jet would have looked little different from the other tired and hungry aircrew passing through.
(16) In 1974, General Prats became one of the victims, killed with his wife in exile in Buenos Aires by a bomb attached to their car - an attack later shown to have been carried out by Pinochet's agents.
(17) It's not when David Tennant's Benedick makes his entrance as a sun-bronzed prat in a golf buggy, nor his Cary Grant-style rat-a-tat-tat delivery of lines such as, "I would my horse had the speed of your tongue", not even when he finally gets to kiss Catherine Tate 's Beatrice.
(18) A radioimmunofiltration modification of the PRAT developed and used in selected cases was simple, fast, efficient, and inexpensive.
(19) Previous work from this laboratory has shown that preimmunization of syngeneic hosts with Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)-transformed cells elicits a strong immune response against the growth of transplantable RSV sarcomas, mediated by T lymphocytes expressing the surface phenotype of helper cell precursors (Prat, Di Renzo & Comoglio, 1983).
(20) A week ago Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was Cardiff's messiah and Sam Allardyce a prat after the novice Norwegian's first game in charge was a 2-1 "triumph" at Newcastle in the FA Cup, where "Big Sam" turned into "Effing Allardyce" with West Ham's 5-0 drubbing by Nottingham Forest.
Rapt
Definition:
() of Rap
() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.
(a.) Rapidity.
(v. t.) To transport or ravish.
(v. t.) To carry away by force.
Example Sentences:
(1) This image has then been superimposed over another of her large and apparently rapt audience.
(2) There was a lot of rapt attention in the room,” said Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger.
(3) In Sacred Monsters , her 2006 duet with Akram Khan, she explored fluidity of Asian movement and the challenge of the spoken work: in Robert Lepage’s Eonnagata she moved towards experimental theatre, and in her subsequent collaborations with Maliphant she developed a rich new palette of rapt, inwardly focused dance.
(4) The high court in Pretoria, South Africa, sat in rapt silence as Steenkamp's words were heard in the case for the first time.
(5) Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One plane formed the backdrop as the candidates debated in front of a rapt audience, with hundreds of journalists in an adjacent media centre and “spin room” and a balmy sun setting over the valley.
(6) At its marvellous best, Seven Streams creates a rapt spell of mesmerising intensity."
(7) But the change of direction is signal – and worth watching with rapt attention.
(8) The former came during a technical rehearsal for Misterman in New York: Cillian Murphy , totally wrapped up in his role, was absorbed in talking to the sole character's mother on a tape-recorder while the production manager, Eamonn Fox, sat a few feet away raptly fixing a table leg.
(9) One segment, a detailed analysis of Arsenal’s recent loss to Chelsea , attracts rapt attention, and cheers at the conclusion.
(10) Only Chelsea supporters could have sat rapt in the Stamford Bridge lecture room.
(11) After a sobering interlude, children who had sat rapt at the sight of the moon landings grew up, and accepted that terraforming space – once briefly assumed to be easy – was actually really, really hard.
(12) Whatever he said, his very presence at such a tense time would have guaranteed rapt attention – one reason why his sermon was not, as is usual, broadcast live on state TV whose cameras are mounted permanently in the university mosque.
(13) They listened, rapt, to their hero, Viktor Yushchenko, whose handsome face had been ravaged by a recent dose of dioxin.
(14) When Drummond appears, the McDonald's workers listen to his introductory speech in a silence that could either be rapt (he's extremely charismatic) or just bewildered (the explanation is quite a convoluted one, involving recreating the sound of a choir that he could hear singing in his head).
(15) "I just finished the entirety of the Chinese military shovel video," writes a rapt Daniel Stauss, "and I must say, hats off to the gentleman at 2:04 who did a spectacular job of julienning that potato with a shovel.
(16) The commanding hand gestures quieten and she goes still, often looking intently at the table or at her hands, a picture of rapt attention.
(17) A wildly energetic performer, as comfortable on stage as on screen, Rivers was still playing to huge, packed auditoriums such as London’s Albert Hall as recently as 2012, where, at the age of 79, she performed for 11 nights to sellout crowds and rapt applause.
(18) And authentic in a way that kept the audience silent throughout - not because they were bored, but because they were rapt in attention.
(19) Beyoncé also made an unannounced appearance, leading a rapt audience of fans and music executives through a soaring singalong of her latest single XO.
(20) In fact, they appear to be rapt: there's something arresting about the fact that hardly anyone seems to be filming proceedings on their mobile phones, which makes it a fairly remarkable event in the annals of modern-day gig-going.