Example sentences of "a [adj] species " in BNC.
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| 1 | Really , doctors were , by and large , a hateful species . |
| 2 | Fisher noted that the evolution of distastefulness in a palatable species is problematic because the predator can not distinguish between the palatable and distasteful individuals without killing them . |
| 3 | It would be much better to choose , not the level where the genus Euphoria is succeeded suddenly by the totally unrelated genus Amnesia ( as in figure 3.4:1 and 2 on left ) , but within a formation of uniform lithology where , for example , the species Abra cadabra ( which really exists ) Passes insensibly into a descendent species or subspecies by a progressive statistical swing in the unit characters . |
| 4 | A differential species is one which is strictly confined to a particular sub-community , and not found in others . |
| 5 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , with luxury goods we have a definite species of personal consumption : jewellery , large houses , certain kinds of motor car , luxury yachts , etc. , as well as personal services . |
| 7 | Alba is a very old breed , originating from a European species dating back at least to medieval times . |
| 8 | Since the role of SSRP1 is not understood , a homolog from a lower species was desired to delineate evolutionarily conserved domains likely to be critical for function . |
| 9 | Thus it seems likely that the winter population and a substantial passage in February and March are largely composed of stellata ; passage of this species continues through April and May , and is then joined by a large movement of arctica ; immer is always a scarce species . |
| 10 | The difficulty is best explained by contrast with a eukaryotic species — for example the house mouse , Mus musculus . |
| 11 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 12 | The old man was regarding him as if he were a strange species behind bars . |
| 13 | Tolba belongs to a political species that will become more common as the decade rolls on towards the next century . |
| 14 | This is scarcely surprising ; human beings have evolved as a social species . |
| 15 | Willows of a few species are abundant along some of the rills , but seldom attain a height of three feet . |
| 16 | Most molluscs are small , a few centimetres long and some are really tiny , but a few species have attained considerable dimensions . |
| 17 | A few species generally resembling this one occur in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks . |
| 18 | Living Iridomyrmex are found principally in Australia and South America , with a few species in India . |
| 19 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 20 | Whereas tropical forests may contain hundreds of species of trees , temperate forests typically contain only a few species ( oak with ash , yew with beech ) or even only one ( as in the redwood or cedar forests of North America ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In all these cases , the bone accumulations resulting from burial , pitfalls , burrow deaths and hibernation/aestivation deaths are distinguished by their limitation to one or a few species but with all parts of the skeleton represented unbroken and well preserved . |
| 23 | Bone accumulations such as these are usually self-evident , and while they indicate which animals were present in an area , their limitation to a few species restricts their usefulness for ecological interpretation . |
| 24 | In either case , the same degree of dominance of a small mammal assemblage by one or a few species may be achieved , but by different means . |
| 25 | In most groups studied in detail , a few species are extremely abundant and many are scarce . |
| 26 | Compare that to a whole forest in the UK that may contain just a few species . |
| 27 | He subdivided this very large genus into several ‘ sections ’ , each of which contained species which were similar to each other and probably closely related — though there are a few species which , in typical cichlid fashion , do n't seem to fit properly anywhere . |
| 28 | There are only a few species of plants which grow floating on the water surface and are considered as useful for the heated aquarium . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In a few species such recognition may be inborn , but in the majority it has to be learned by experience . |