Sentence examples for block of natural from inspiring English sources

But Turkey was incensed last year when the country, which has licensed exploration of a block of natural gas to Texas-based Noble Energy, began to drill.

The indolizine nucleus at different degrees of unsaturation is a building block of natural and synthetic target compounds; thus new approaches, especially if stereoselective and/or stereospecific, are highly desirable.

As the main building block of natural bone is a mineralized collagen fibril, the approach of using an inorganic phase such as tricalcium phosphate (TCP) in an organic carrier intended as a graft material is currently realized in bone-tissue engineering strategies.

Next to sugars also sugar derivatives constitute an important building block of natural fibers and are therefore readily available.

The two partners of Ridgewood Energy struck it big in 1991, when they teamed up with BHP Billiton and discovered the West Cameron 76 block of natural gas off the coast of Louisiana.

Recognizing lexical inferences is one of the building blocks of natural language understanding.

It identifies large contiguous blocks of natural land (hubs), interconnected by natural corridors to allow animal and plant propagule dispersal and migration.

The size of patches of spared land affected conservation outcomes: population sizes were maximised under a land-sparing strategy that spared large blocks of natural habitat of ~ 1000 or, better, ~ 10,000 ha.

Land-sharing policies that promote the integration of small-scale wildlife-friendly habitats might be of limited benefit without the simultaneous protection of larger blocks of natural habitat, which is most likely to be achieved via land-sparing measures.

Dr Edwards's team points out that "land-sharing policies that promote the integration of small-scale wildlife-friendly habitats might be of limited benefit without the simultaneous protection of larger blocks of natural habitat, which is most likely to be achieved via land-sparing measures".

In order to reveal lectin-binding properties of this type of non-hydrolyzable sugar derivative, libraries originating from a mixture of common building blocks of natural glycans and thiocompounds were tested against three plant agglutinins with specificity to galactose, fucose or N-acetylgalactosamine, respectively, in a solid-phase assay.