Example sentences of "were resistant to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case might be made for the Christian church , but there were many more stations than churches , and the railway penetrated cultures which were resistant to Christianity . |
| 2 | The resulting hybrids were resistant to streptomycin , a characteristic inherited from tobacco , and capable of growing on nitrate , an ability conferred by petunia genes ( Cocking 1989 ) . |
| 3 | He exposed cells in culture to influenza virus , showed that they were resistant to infection with certain other viruses , and isolated from his cultures a protein which conferred the same resistance on fresh cells . |
| 4 | Interestingly , RNA polymerase-promoter complexes formed at these promoters in the absence of the initiating NTPs on supercoiled templates were resistant to heparin challenge ( Figure 3 ) , indicating that DNA supercoiling could stabilize open complexes at both P A2b and P A3 promoters . |
| 5 | Overall , 153 strains were resistant to trimethoprim or erythromycin alone or cross resistant to tetracycline and doxycycline or to erythromycin and clindamycin . |