Example sentences of "adapt to [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its fighters would be amnestied , would have special access to education , health care , land and credit , and would receive a monthly payment for six months while they looked for employment and adapted to civilian life . |
| 2 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 3 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |
| 4 | Add to this the change in orientation of the legs in many reptiles , which can be used in an efficient running action , unlike the ungainly waddling of the amphibians and it will be apparent why the reptiles were better adapted to terrestrial life than the amphibians , and why they largely displaced them . |
| 5 | The planktonic larvae are , in short , adapted to planktonic life ; those of echinoderms and of gastropod molluscs for example have bands of cilia ( whip-like projections of the cell ) to drive them along . |
| 6 | Some Jews had been conspicuously successful in adapting to British life and they undoubtedly brought a new vitality to an economically declining region . |