Sentences with phrase «key in a lock»

However, putting an extra key in a lock box can provide an easy way for trusted neighbors, friends, or even the police to enter the home if need be.

It's like leaving your office key in the lock so you don't have to remember it.

«Conventional antibiotics are like keys in a lock,» explains Zasloff.

There was a rusty key in the lock, and when she turned it, the door flew open and in the little room was sitting an old woman with a spindle and spinning her flax industriously.

Using computer simulations called molecular docking, team members screened more than 3 million molecules to find some 2,500 that fit the mu receptor like a perfectly cut key in a lock.

When time is up for the day, parents can easily add 20 - minute increments of time after keying in a lock code.

We had a broken key in the lock incident, and we had instantaneous help from every direction!!!

Albeit With great dignity because you didnâ $ ™ t appear gullible enough to try the key in the lock.

Some people have their bigger children tend the small ones, and some have their children go home and watch television and wait for the sound of their key in the lock.

Dr Ranjit Gill, chief clinical officer of Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, told the Manchester Evening news, «this fits our plans like a key in a lock... the deal will be really good for patients in Greater Manchester and will help us join up NHS care with social care for the first time».

Using an artificial version of the protein Izumo, found on the surface of sperm, the team scoured the genetic sequences of millions of proteins until they found one that attached itself to Izumo, like a key in a lock.

LOCK AND LOAD In this computational image, a ligand protein binds to precise spots (yellow) on a T cell's receptor protein PD - 1, acting like a key in a lock.

In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»

Folded proteins tend to bind to their targets firmly, like a key in a lock, at just one or two spots, but their more stretched - out wiggly cousins are like molecular Velcro, attaching lightly at multiple locations and releasing with ease.

This small protein molecule contains a loop which fits, like a key in a lock, into the ion channel proteins found on nerve cell membranes, which are used to transport sodium and potassium ions in and out of the cell.

Many drugs work like a key in a lock, and this discovery shows us the inner workings of the tau protein «lock».

Later on, scientists identified a molecule, B7 - H1, subsequently renamed PD - L1, which binds to PD - 1, clicking like a key in a lock.

Hormones work like a key in a lock.

It's like a key in a lock, and instead of looking for «a key» or «a diet», I think we should try looking for the key which works with our «locks», or a diet which meets us where we are.

Once the endocannabinoid binds to the receptor (like a key in the lock), a reaction in the sending cells results in fewer chemicals being released — thereby putting things back into a balanced state.

I'm still looking for someone who fits me and my horse life like a key in a lock.

Also, you can operate the window from the outside of the vehicle by inserting and turning the key in the lock on the tailgate.

Firing up the engine was a question of inserting the key in a lock barrel on the right side of the steering column for the 208 and the Fabia.

Make showing your property easy for brokers by placing a key in a lock box on the front door.

That tells the animal that you are on the way home long before you put the key in the lock.

This is clearly a case of mistaking Lilacs for Corner Cottage and then wanting the same amenities and not being happy with what was actually booked... Also, the lady at the main house did advise this guest to drop the keys in the locked postbox when leaving, which he seems to have forgotten.

The analogue stick is used to turn a key in a lock, or wind up a music box and turn the pages of book.

In the luminous «Provincetown Pier» (1988), the shapes fit together like a key in a lock, while a red horizontal stroke defining the side of a boat threatens to blow the composition apart.

Centocor's expert said the antibody - antigen relationship is like «a key in a lock», but accepted the special human / human antibody required finding «a ring with a million keys on it.»

When I got to the door, I fumbled to find my keys and just as I put my key in the lock, you guessed it, I dropped my cell phone.

That's the digital equivalent of locking your front door but leaving the key in the lock.

Back in 2010, I was showing a home to a client while I was five months pregnant, and as I walked up to the front door and put the key in the lock, I heard «rattle, rattle, rattle.»

Turning the key in a lock that no landlord has access to, playing football in your own backyard and painting your living room bright yellow — what could be more exciting than making the jump from renter to first - time homeowner?

When I turn the key in the lock, I want my heart to lift and sing and colour is the easiest way of achieving this.