Example sentences of "and in [art] absence " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the absence of a modern British Bill of Rights , the European Convention provides a convenient source of Lord Diplock 's ‘ accepted moral standards ’ where fundamental rights and freedoms are at stake . |
| 2 | B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B. |
| 3 | The common mixtures of sand , silt , and clay are called loams ( silty loams , sandy loams , clay loams , silty clay loams , and so on ) and in the absence of organic matter , reflect structural qualities in proportion to their ingredients . |
| 4 | As an odour is defined , however , as ‘ any chemical compound which can stimulate the olfactory sense ’ and in the absence of any judicial dicta on the point , ‘ effluvium ’ appears to include any odour irrespective of the presence or otherwise of any particulate matter . |
| 5 | The design study notes : ‘ Unfortunately , with only limited geological information available and in the absence of normal site-investigation data , it is prudent to consider construction in what may prove to be adverse as well as favourable conditions , ’ |
| 6 | Fred is protected against unfair dismissal , and in the absence of any previous official ( i.e. provable ) warnings he is likely to win in the event of an appeal . |
| 7 | Indeed , because job distinctions and jurisdictions within largely self-contained , internal labour markets are very weak , and in the absence of an ( external ) market based wage system , it was probably inevitable that unions would be established on an enterprise basis . |
| 8 | There , the mainstream of the labour movement was content to confine its challenge to employers to the economic sphere and in the absence of any socialist party alliance no serious political challenge was posed . |
| 9 | Inevitably , however , pain will sometimes need to be inflicted , and in the absence of anaesthetic , which must be set against this point . |
| 10 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 11 | These assays were done in three separate experiments using different ROS membrane vesicle preparations ; in all cases an increase in K m ( from 19 0.4μM to 33 2 μM ) in the presence of calmodulin without significant change in either the V max or the Hill coefficient and in the absence and presence of calmodulin , respectively ) was observed . |
| 12 | In the Spring of 1966 , six of the Commissioners , led by Radzinowicz and Wootton resigned , having become persuaded that , with substantial legislation pending , and in the absence of conclusive research to support recommendations likely to last for a lengthy period , the opportunity no longer existed for the Commission to make a comprehensive report capable of setting the direction for a generation . |
| 13 | In August 1944 , having enlisted Chinese support , Ho crossed the border into north Vietnam to make contact once again with the Vietminh forces who , by this time , and in the absence of any other administrative control or military power , were extending their influence in the mountains of northern Tonkin in the area known as the Viet Bac Revolutionary armed forces were supposed to be growing and there was apparently enough revolutionary enthusiasm to support the idea of launching another insurrection from there within a couple of months . |
| 14 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 15 | A is a criterion for B if the truth/occurrence of A is necessarily good but defeasible evidence for the truth of B , and in the absence of contrary indications sufficient evidence . |
| 16 | This was a case for which a substantial punishment was called for , and in the absence of a plea of guilty , a sentence of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) of at least two years would have been called for . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 18 | Their dress seemed more austere , both in its cut and in the absence of embellishment . |
| 19 | As the activation mechanism by CRP-cAMP appears to be different at the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters , we have decided to test the binding of the reconstituted polymerases to lac and gal up promoter variants in the presence and in the absence of the CRP-cAMP complex . |
| 20 | We therefore tested the binding of wild-type and mutant holoenzymes at lac UV5 promoter in the presence and in the absence of CRP and cAMP by different techniques : DNAaseI footprinting [ 18 ] ( Fig. 2 ) , hydroxylradical footprinting ( iron EDTA [ 19 ] ( Fig. 3 ) or copper-phenanthroline reactants [ 28 ] ( Fig. 5 ) ) and laser crosslinking [ 20 ] ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 21 | However , noticeable modifications appeared upstream of -38 with the α-truncated RNA polymerases both in the presence and in the absence of CRP-cAMP at lac UV5 . |
| 22 | In the former case , the primers amplify the ZFY locus on the human Y-chromosome ( 1 ) resulting in a single 340 bp amplification product when male DNA is used and in the absence of detectable amplification products with female DNA when stringent amplification conditions are used ( Lanes A and B ) . |
| 23 | To analyze the stability of open complexes formed at these two promoters , a 339 bp DNA fragment containing both P A2b and P A3 was incubated with σ A -RNA polymerase at 37°C , with or without protein p4 , and in the absence or presence of either the initiating NTPs GTP and UTP , the dinucleotide GpU , or GpU plus ATP . |
| 24 | Despite the survival of eighth-century Northumbrian annals , without Bede 's informative Ecclesiastical History and in the absence also of Northumbrian charters , only the most skeletal account of post-Bedan Northumbrian history can be reconstructed . |
| 25 | What this singularity and uniqueness of the auratic work of art imply is also its isolation from the social , both in its inaccessibility and in the absence of political effectiveness ( Benjamin 1975b , p. 225 ) . |
| 26 | Thus for a body in free fall E is a constant of motion , and in the absence of gravitational forces E reduces to , which is the usual SR energy . |
| 27 | These solutions describe the paths of ingoing and outgoing rays respectively , and in the absence of the black hole would become . |
| 28 | If there 's any possibility of anything to be gained from this operation — and in the absence of the kind of labour you 'd prefer to have on a job like this — I thought an extra pair of hands might be welcome . ’ |
| 29 | It is aimed either at the external hacker of which there are far fewer than press reports suggest or at the employee who though they have legitimate access legitimate lim limited access to a computer , nevertheless go beyond that authorization , but in order for the act to be successful , in order to get a successful prosecution , the prosecution have got to show that the access was unauthorized , and in the absence of clear codes of conduct , clear on-screen messages , that can be quite tricky . |
| 30 | And in the absence of government initiatives a non-governmental health organization has started training ‘ mental-health promoters ’ to work with their own communities . |