Example sentences of "of [art] [det] species " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the many species of Dictyonema only a few have a colony as regular in shape as this one , which can grow to a length of more than 20 cm . |
| 2 | Fleming sought help in identifying the mould from the mycologist La Touche , who worked in the same building and who thought that of the many species of Penicillium , it was most like Penicillium rubrum . |
| 3 | If you watch the jamboree of the many species which gathers at a lion kill , you observe that each animal changes its normal behaviour . |
| 4 | If you 'd like to include a catfish in your set-up , then try Sturisoma subulata , which is one of the many species commonly referred to as ‘ Twig ’ Catfish . |
| 5 | Aplysia can grow up to about 30 centimetres long and weigh a couple of kilos , and of the several species the biggest and experimentally most popular ( I do n't say the best ) comes from California — Aplysia californica . |
| 6 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 7 | Often one colony will enslave another of the same species , or one species will exploit another . |
| 8 | Since such altruistic acts are typically performed between members of the same species , and usually within a fairly stable social group , it is best to start by asking what causes animals to come together in groups . |
| 9 | The small , lentil-shaped fossils are a separate form of the same species . |
| 10 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 11 | In any one hectare of tropical forest you may find trees of one hundred different types and each individual may be widely separated from others of the same species . |
| 12 | Retribution can take a variety of forms : members of the same species may become generally scarce ; the hunter may have bad luck in future hunting , and/or he or a member of his family or social group may be afflicted with injury , illness , madness or even death . |
| 13 | I took it upon myself to suggest that two-tone bream are simply another variety of common bream ( not another breed ) just as black fish and bronze fish in the same water are varieties of the same species , and as mirror and leather carp are varieties of the same species . |
| 14 | I took it upon myself to suggest that two-tone bream are simply another variety of common bream ( not another breed ) just as black fish and bronze fish in the same water are varieties of the same species , and as mirror and leather carp are varieties of the same species . |
| 15 | For example , under differing degrees of habitat richness , two predators of the same species may have widely differing territory sizes if the resource areas are widely separated or not . |
| 16 | The main group is characterized by low proportions of alteration , and this includes many of the same species that produce little alteration of the skull and maxilla , namely barn owl , long-eared owl , Verreaux eagle owl , and great grey owl : see Table 3.7 . |
| 17 | The significant point , at least according to Huxley , is that the allometric variation that is so clearly observable between different sized individuals of the same species , can also be observed between animals of different size in different ( though related ) species . |
| 18 | Pheromones offer all kinds of possibilities : they are chemicals produced by an animal that effectively act as external hormones , and attract ( or repel ) members of the same species . |
| 19 | The Index Kewensis lists more than 250 species of dodder and while some of these are possibly synonyms of the same species collected from different localities , the dodder appear to be native to all the large temperate and tropical land masses of the world . |
| 20 | It appears , in fact , that the speed and reliability of a bee 's flower memory at least roughly corresponds to the degree of variability it is likely to encounter among flowers of the same species in nature ( including variation from day to day of an individual blossom ) . |
| 21 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 22 | He suggested that these fields are moulded by the form and behaviour of past organisms of the same species through direct connections across both space and time , a process he calls ‘ morphic resonance ’ . |
| 23 | Neither is he able , usually , even as an adult human , to distinguish the sounds made by individual birds of the same species — though the birds themselves can do this . |
| 24 | But we do not readily understand the subtle nuances of meaning and expression which members of the same species can communicate to each other . |
| 25 | Feeding behaviour among cetaceans is also of some fascination and there is clearly social co-operation between members of the same species , especially among Killer whales , which tend to hunt in packs , as do lions or wolves , using particular strategies for catching their prey . |
| 26 | Some insects , for example , emit a pheromone as an alarm signal , warning other members of the same species of impending danger . |
| 27 | Nell knew , and not only because she was a female of the same species . |
| 28 | All of the authors regularly exchange the young with each other , and with other breeders of the same species . |
| 29 | We are familiar with the complex societies of the insect world where we see the cooperation of many individuals of the same species to produce the highly organized colonies of the bees , ants and termites . |
| 30 | These conflicting experimental results may in fact be indicating that different batches or strains of the same species of plant , too , may exhibit different reaction patterns to the same homoeopathic remedy , and serve to underline the difficulty of using animal or plant models in a situation where , even with a cooperative patient giving a good history , remedy selection can be extremely difficult . |