Sentence examples for nicking of from inspiring English sources

It's a delightful joke, of course, this nicking of Copenhagan's most famous landmark, but Parker has made a beautiful work in its own right.

The annual nicking of a Christmas tree from a nearby farm that might possibly result in you being shot – that's the stuff memories are made of.

On plain English and the law: "What message to the potential horse thief could be clearer than section one of the Docking and Nicking of Horse Act,1949: the... nicking of horses is prohibited" On identity cards: "The extensive personal information retained on the proposed... register and the requirement on individuals to keep notifying changes is excessive and disproportionate".

Gel electrophoresis showed the concentration dependent cleavage activity of compound 6 alone or in presence of Cu (II) causes the nicking of supercoiled pBR322 and it seems to follow the mechanistic pathway involving generation of hydroxyl radicals that are responsible for initiating DNA strand scission.

The structure unveils a powerful inhibitory mechanism to prevent undesired nicking of newly replicated DNA and allows us to propose a model describing how the interaction with MutS and the processivity clamp could license the endonuclease activity of MutL.

Another mechanism to initiate replication consists in the specific nicking of one of the strands of a circular double-stranded DNA, producing a 3'-OH group available for elongation (KORNBERG 1980).

This is nick-of-time politics.

Just in the nick of time!

They had made it here in the nick of time.

They did so "in the nick of time".

The Donegal man makes it in the nick of time.