Sentence examples for proficient not from inspiring English sources

A recent widower, Mr. D'Arcy spends as many nights in the Stone Hut as he can each winter and is proficient not only in stoking the wood stove but also in the cabin's other chief activity, storytelling.

If the students in Group 3 made errors, were not corrected and repeated them through practice, they may have become proficient not only in good practice but also in bad practice [ 17].

We've had enough of the lies -- being told that our students can't do the work, aren't proficient, and don't have what it takes to succeed in public schools.

The plots are proficient if not remarkable, but writer Nick Fisher's dialogue is crisp.

During the upcoming New York Antiques Show...the firm of Parrett/Lich is selling twenty-seven paintings by Sybil...The paintings are proficient, although not particularly distinguished.

Students who were already proficient may not have felt that they made gains, and therefore increases in SE were more limited.

They should state that the full RRE is ∼351 nt, and the smaller construct has been shown to be proficient, though not optimal, in nuclear export.

"I decided that at my age, 77, becoming proficient wasn't doable without a lot of time," said Mr. Koch, a partner in a New York law firm.

We observed that Myc-Aven was arginine methylated in PRMT1-proficient, but not in PRMT1-deficient cells.

The increase in MMR-proficient but not MMR-deficient cells suggests a reduced fidelity of DNA repair in late S phase, leading to an increase in transversions.

Scores are reported as levels -- not proficient, basic, proficient, advanced.