Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [det] species " in BNC.
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| 1 | the likelihood of the damage or of its being severe was due to characteristics of the animal which are not normally found in animals of the same species or are not normally so found except at particular times or in particular circumstances ; and |
| 2 | A survey of the biota of the river between 1979 and 1981 revealed that the macroinvertebrate fauna had been adversely affected , involving loss of diversity and the proliferation of a few species which are tolerant of high levels of pollution . |
| 3 | Polar adaptations of a few species , so far as they are recognized , are discussed in Chapter 6 . |
| 4 | To compensate hunters , many of them peasants and Indians , for loss of income from the illegal trade , the government is allowing exports of a few species not in danger of extinction , such as the Teyu Guazu iguana , whose skin is used for handbags and belts . |
| 5 | The number of tree species with high proportions of ‘ barked ’ trees is low , but bark of a few species is pulled off in strips up to 10m long as seen in Bombax brevicuspe ( Bombacaceae ) and Lannea welwitschii ( Anacardiaceae ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Arctic stocks of Oxyria digyna ( Mooney and Billings , 1961 ) and meadow rue Thalictrum alpinum ( Mooney and Johnson , 1965 ) have lower optimal photosynthetic temperatures than alpine stocks of the same species . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If you watch the jamboree of the many species which gathers at a lion kill , you observe that each animal changes its normal behaviour . |
| 13 | It is important to understand variations in the growth patterns of plants of the same species . |
| 14 | The specialized hummingbirds do not normally maintain feeding territories or defend patches of flowers but ‘ trapline ’ to flowers on other plants of the same species . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This follows because in the competitive world of the coral reef , a fish of the same species represents a major threat to the food supply and refuge of the sitting tenant , simply because the interloper requires the same type of food and habitat . |
| 17 | Fish swimming in schools move faster and use less energy than fish of the same species made to swim alone . |
| 18 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
| 19 | Individuals of a few species like durians provide food for several orang-utan meals , but most are cleared by one animal in a single meal . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All individuals of the same species are not identical . |
| 23 | Mysids Mysis relicta by contrast have a two-yearly cycle ; females require the same amount of energy for breeding as individuals of the same species in warmer climates , but take a year longer to accumulate it ( Lasenby and Langford , 1972 , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | Thus two individuals of different species from the same place look more alike than two individuals of the same species from different places . |
| 25 | According to the sociobiologists , competition between individuals of the same species to achieve this end is what it is all about ; the Mendelian modification of Darwin 's dogma concerning " the survival of the fittest " is made to explain almost everything . |
| 26 | They also act as a badge of ownership , particularly to other males of the same species . |
| 27 | All of the authors regularly exchange the young with each other , and with other breeders of the same species . |
| 28 | Yet the caterpillars of a few species are well protected from predators ; they are highly distasteful , possessing a coat of irritant hairs , while others bear spines and venom . |
| 29 | For example , in a sample of 725 copulating pairs of two species of cicada , which are distinguishable but similar in appearance to the human eye , only seven contained members of two species ; the other 718 were matings of the same species . |
| 30 | 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 . |