Sentence examples for backbone as it from inspiring English sources

Many of these books form my own literary backbone, as it were (Orwell, Forster, Lawrence, the Brontës, Spark).

It was a mammal, perhaps a big stoat; Gary could only think that it must have been dropped from the sky by a bird of prey, the flesh falling away from the backbone as it decayed.

Subsequently, it was demonstrated that the phosphate diester bridges in the LPS backbone as well as some membrane proteins are important in forming a cell surface structure resistant to the penetration of several antibiotics [ 16].

The electrochemical response reveals capacitive charging of the conducting backbone as well as redox cycling of the pendant groups.

The copolymers (PLS2) have ester and amide functional groups in the backbone, as well as pendant free hydroxy functional groups.

As terrifically played by Rickards, Felicity is a smart, confident, klutzy but fiercely loyal woman with great fashion sense and a moral backbone as strong as one of Oliver's arrows.

t-BuO2H causes oxidation of DNA bases and sugar backbone as well as single-strand breaks [50].

Potent plasmid DNA vaccine vectors are necessary in vaccine regiments because they elicit no immune responses against their backbone, as can be the case with viral vectors.

As indicated by Raman spectroscopy, the Fe2+ ions during pretreatment affect C-O bonds in polysaccharide backbone as well as the (-CH2OH) side groups of cellulose.

Each FAP is aware of its approximate backbone quality as it needs this information to schedule users' data over backbone.

These dimers involve intermolecular hydrogen-bonds between adjacent peptide backbones as well as interactions between sugar residues.