(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.
Tosspot
Definition:
(n.) A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a tabloid tosspot of some note, I had difficulty understanding the concept of Sky as Rupert slowly explained it.
(2) Well, what else do you expect from a Romanian tosspot?