Example sentences of "adapt to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 2 | It is a part of his search for perfection , according to Mr Ferguson , who is delighted at the way Schmeichel has adapted to life in England . |
| 3 | Their long arms are particularly well adapted to life in trees . |
| 4 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 5 | True , there is a general drift through time towards more complex plants , more perfectly adapted to life away from water , but primitive species have persisted alongside the innovations . |
| 6 | All penguins are flightless but are perfectly adapted to life in water and to withstanding cold . |
| 7 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , one group of toads , the spadefoot toads , have adapted to life in some of the hottest and driest places in the world . |
| 9 | Its best known relative is the chamois , a native of the European Alps which has also adapted to life at high altitudes on precipitous mountain cliffs . |
| 10 | The rare Himalayan tahr — a distant relative of the mountain goat — has also adapted to life in harsh mountainous conditions . |
| 11 | A smaller relative is the clouded leopard ( top right ) ; the snow leopard ( bottom right ) has adapted to life at up to 20,000ft ( 6,096 m ) and generally has a thicker coat . |
| 12 | The snow leopard , Panthera uncia , has adapted to life among the screes and snows at altitudes of up to 20,000 ft ( 6,100 m ) . |
| 13 | Among the antelope these include gazelle species that have adapted to life in India . |
| 14 | Both the nilgai and the four-horned antelope were originally Indian woodland species that have adapted to life on the plains . |
| 15 | That is not easy for them to do , for so extremely have their bodies become adapted to life in the air that their legs are greatly reduced in size . |
| 16 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |
| 17 | These fish are best bought when young , as the larger wild-caught ones very rarely adapt to life in an aquarium , refusing food no matter what persuasion is used . |
| 18 | Henderson was swamped by back-slapping colleagues who have helped him through the difficulties of adapting to life in Zimbabwe in the last two weeks . |
| 19 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 20 | Delegates and speakers alike expressed concern about the West 's readiness and ability to adapt to life in a ‘ computer culture ’ . |
| 21 | He had been unable to adapt to life at the school , she said . |
| 22 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 23 | Intensive pre-operative teaching and preparation will help prepare Mr Reynolds for the process of learning how to adapt to life with a stoma . |