Sentence examples for was rather deficient from inspiring English sources

"I was rather deficient in my knowledge of French opera," Jellinek said, and when he went on to attribute this deficiency to the Francophobia by which Hungary was gripped between the world wars, I felt yet another stir of childhood memory.

Few people would have watched it live on German TV – a self-deprecating fan banner greeting "the four viewers on Sky" might not have been too far off the truth – but the game between the billionaire-sponsored village club and the Red Bull-owned newcomers was entertaining enough despite being rather deficient in terms of historical resonance or, if you will, authenticity.

Moreover, taking into account the fact that the T. reesei secretome is rather deficient in β-glucosidases, it is particularly relevant to engineer microorganisms that are self-sufficient with regard to this type of enzyme activity.

This result indicated that impaired DC migration was rather due to CCR7 deficient signalling than expression in the absence of Jak3.

The soil of the area is rather acidic and is deficient in humus.

Furthermore, phenotypic screening for phloem mutants is reported to be rather difficult as lignin-deficient sclerenchyma cells of phloem tissue do not collapse [ 28] as easily as in tracheary cells [ 29].

Interestingly, a striking difference between GHR deficient or GH disrupted mice and hNAG-1 mice is that GHR deficient mice are rather obese which have increased subcutaneous adiposity while hNAG-1 mice have decreased adiposity [ 1].

Except for the gene expression changes (Fig. 5 and Fig. 6), the degree to which the circadian rhythm is disrupted in these AMPK-deficient mice is rather modest.

However, the regulation of PI3K activation in p85 α-deficient mice is rather complex.

The phenotypic changes that were found in MMP19-deficient mice could be rather a result of combined processing of multiple substrates than outcome of one major substrate.

However, the row of experimental probes available to study atomic-deficient void structure of such materials is rather limited, especially at nanometer and sub-nanometer scale.