Sentence examples for for a tract from inspiring English sources

It is uninhabited and, except for a tract of stunted birch forest, completely desolate.

His talk reminded me of the time I won the school essay prize for a tract on time-wasting.

However his neighbour, the kindly, illiterate Baines (Harvey Keitel), whose Maori facial tattoos indicate he's going native, agrees to swap the piano for a tract of land.

The company expects "fair-value compensation" for a tract of land ceded to the government in 2006.

Seventeen years later, MGM's legendary New York streets, where "The Band Wagon" and "Blackboard Jungle" had been filmed, were leveled to make room for a tract of modest two-story condominiums in Culver City.

At the time, he had been looking for a tract to build a vacation home for his family, then based in Miami.

HxTfA exhibits similar selectivity to TfA for A-tract sequences of DNA, alkylating adenine-N3, albeit at 10-fold higher concentrations.

This suggests that energy terms driving stacking may be too favorable, as suggested by Banas et al. for A-tracts in B-DNA.

The enrichment of A/T-rich elements at the upstream region of memory effect promoters is mostly for T-tracts and less evident for A-tracts (reading 5′ to 3′ on the upper strand), which is consistent with the observation that nucleosome-depleted regions are typically defined by T-tracts followed by A-tracts.

This was an action for the possession of a tract of land in the territory of Dakota.

This is expected for the A-tract regions flanking the G·C bp.