Example sentences of "a or [letter] " in BNC.

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1 An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene .
2 Too much of some vitamins ( notably A and D ) can prove toxic : excess vitamin A or D can be difficult for the body to eliminate and therefore can act as a poison .
3 In a 90-minute presentation he and other directors also proposed classifying the company 's borrowings as A or B category .
4 If you choose A or B we will pay you compensation on the scale shown below .
5 The control unit routes the signal to A or B preamps and then to modified Soldano stereo power amps .
6 This is why you 've got people like Michael Jackson and Axl Rose , Insane Rock Star A or B , because they 're constantly being pampered .
7 The expectation that students with A or B ( or their equivalents in other systems for dispensing approval ) will be in the minority has a strong hold in classrooms .
8 All other areas than Area A or B
9 For example : ‘ We have done a careful costing of the advantages and disadvantages of choosing product A or B and the returns for A are 15 per cent better than our best estimate for B. It is a clear-cut case : choose A. ’
10 For example : I 'm sorry to keep pressing you for an answer but we do need to make a decision if we are to avoid being the last in the market with this product : Is it to be A or B ? ’
11 There is a range of potential responses : the delimitation may be respected and acted upon , for example through application for mining licences to either A or B according to the terms of the agreement ; other States might tacitly acquiesce in the delimitation ; others might make a formal protest that it conflicts with a legal interest of their own , for example , claims of sovereign rights over part of the same area .
12 However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one .
13 However , as the Stock Exchange itself observed : ‘ Shareholders currently have an ‘ up market ’ profile , [ with ] 42 per cent of them falling into social grades A or B … .
14 The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist on treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents . ’
15 The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist upon treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents .
16 A = ( students who like calypso music ) A B = ( students who like TV ) 4 students do not belong in A or B but have to be placed in , the set of all students in the class .
17 Log on to your floppy drive , A or B , and type in ADVICE to get an on-screen description of the disk programs and to run the Interactive Advice program .
18 They are published in either mass market A or B format paperback at around £4.99 , and are available generally throughout the trade .
19 The candidate looks down the offered answers arid circles A or B or C or whichever answer he thinks appropriate .
20 One could predict the approximate number of times that the result would be A or B , but one could not predict the specific result of an individual measurement .
21 It usually takes you longer to decide whether to do either A or B than just how to do A. All I have to think of is how to do A.
22 BREAKDOWN EXPLOSION OR COLLAPSE COVER CODES A OR B
23 If a field of the data structure savedValues is used by a sub-program B , called by A , but not explicitly by A itself , then it will be listed as an input or output of B but not of A. The notation ( A|B ) means ‘ A or B ’ .
24 For many years scholars have tried to establish either the A or B text of the play as more authoritative .
25 Critics said that the formula , which limited the number of overseas judges to a maximum of one from either Panel A or B , would compromise the colony 's absolute freedom to chose judges .
26 The next section contains a questionnaire , the answers to which indicate the individual 's preferential adaptability to the A or B job .
27 In the relatively simple hand-over of what is in fact , though not constitutionally , a continuing government , the test , given the normal circumstances of a party majority , is whether A or B can in fact command a majority in the House of Commons .
28 Note that the mole fraction of either A or B can be used to express the composition of the solution .
29 The distribution of the tumours is shown in Table I — 56 patients had tumours confined to the bowel wall or just penetrating it ( stage A or B ) and the remaining 58 had advanced tumours with either locoregional nodal involvement or distant metastases ( stage C or D ) .
30 Specific entry criteria were : ( 1 ) Endoscopically proven oesophageal variceal bleeding ; ( 2 ) biopsy proven cirrhosis ; ( 3 ) age 18–65 years ; ( 4 ) written informed consent ; ( 5 ) child 's grading A or B ( Pugh 's modification ) .
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