Sentence examples for were non-essential from inspiring English sources

Our analysis showed that a gene with an orthologue with a lethal knockout/knockdown phenotype was more likely to be essential than if the orthologue were non-essential; the more distant the orthologue, the greater was the probability of essentiality.

One negative: the homemade croutons tasted rancid, but they were non-essential and easily set aside.

The results revealed about 60% of the reactions in the model were non-essential under both conditions while 25% were completely essential and distributed across various pathways of rice central metabolism as illustrated in Figure 1.

It will only irk them further to read assessments in the review that £2m was spent on stadium wifi, LED displays and jumbo screens that were "non-essential"; that players were signed last summer that executives should have known the club could not afford.

(II) Restrict realism to those parts of theories that play an essential role in the derivation of subsequently observed (novel) predictions, and then argue that the terms of past theories which are now regarded as non-referring were non-essential and hence that there is no reason to deny that the essential terms in current theories will be retained.

A carefully crafted description of sluggish schizophrenia established that psychotic symptoms were non-essential for the diagnosis, but symptoms of psychopathy, hypochondria, depersonalization or anxiety were central to it.

Critics said it was non-essential and should not be paid for by council tax.

We don't need to watch football – we choose to – and everything we get out of it is non-essential.

This cutoff may include both genes that are strictly essential and those that are non-essential but confer increased fitness.

But as Gulliver readers know, not all business travel is non-essential.

Many shoppers avoid buying anything that is non-essential, and some retail executives believe this Christmas could be the worst at the tills for decades.