adhere to something

Examples of adhering

adhering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The slow, halting, sliding steps appear as though the feet are adhering to the floor.
Effect of temperature and approach\\separation rates on binding and unbinding mechanisms of two adhering membranes exposing mobile ligand and receptor groups.
In this study, the numbers not adhering to the treatment allocated were not large neither were the numbers referred to alternative services.
The choice of loudspeakers has often set us back, but finally while adhering to the basic idea, it has survived the changes in listening attitudes.
All of the six languages are flexible enough to specify/implement agents adhering to different agent models.
Many of the smaller liverworts grew over or through the sward of larger bryophytes rather than adhering to the bark.
If best practice is the aim of patient care then adhering to guidelines and clinical governance standards is essential.
How, then, can we rightly say that those officials are adhering to that criterion?
The quantity of adhering bacteria was measured by a rapid method based on reactivity kinetics of a constitutive bacterial enzyme under substrate-saturated conditions.
Another possibility is that children are adhering to a lexical principle.
Eight countries were represented in the congress, which drew forty-seven delegates, with more than 130 workers' organisations adhering without personal representation.
The liquid phase is adhering to the upper surface.
Excised embryos retained pericarp on one side and small amounts of adhering endosperm on the other side.
After partially drying and adhering to the glass, a solution of 0.1% cresyl violet was dripped over the retina to stain the ganglion cells.
Then follow the five sections, each adhering to the same presentational structure: an essay on the thematic concept, and interpretative photographic essays.
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