Example sentences of "member of [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , cattle are enemies of grass in that it is still true that an individual grass plant would be better off not being eaten by a cow than being eaten , and any mutant plant that possessed , say , a chemical weapon that protected it against cows , would set more seed ( containing genetic instructions for making the chemical weapon ) than rival members of its own species that were more palatable to cows . |
2 | The Red Tailed Black Shark is a well-established aquarium favourite and gets on well with any fish , apart from members of its own family . |
3 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
4 | Researchers are not limited to studying only members of their own society but can interview people in other societies including people who may be illiterate and therefore leave no written record of their activities . |
5 | However , they are not usually aggressive , except to members of their own kind , and even then they usually settle down without too much fuss . |
6 | Many of the South-Asians responded to this crisis by organising self-employment or by working in new small or medium sized businesses set up , owned and run by members of their own communities or by members of extended families . |
7 | All living organisms are continually in competition with other species and other members of their own species in order to obtain their needs . |
8 | Even the smallest kittens , they noticed , were acting out attacks either on other members of their own species or on prey animals . |
9 | So while crickets , grasshoppers and cicadas are easily heard by such creatures as ourselves , these same airborne vibrations may actually be seen , as well as heard , by the fellow members of their own species , much as we are able to see the air shimmering with heat as it rises off hot rocks . |
10 | Griffin gives many further examples : that pets and other tame creatures come when they are called by their names ( this would commend itself to Hearne ) , and that numerous species of birds , mammals , and even some fish and insects , seem to recognise individual members of their own species . |
11 | Therefore , all that is necessary for a species to acquire a culture is that its members should be capable of learning and memory , and meet other members of their own species sufficiently often to be able to learn things from them . |
12 | Natural selection will favour animals that produce normal healthy offspring by choosing to mate with members of their own species , rather than producing sterile hybrid offspring . |
13 | Sexually dimorphic creatures must be able to discriminate members of their own species from other species , males from females , and so on . |
14 | Individual trees are just as likely to be harmfully overshadowed by members of their own species as by members of other species . |
15 | Yet , if such all-male groups were to reproduce themselves as hunting groups and gain the immense adaptive advantages that situation bestowed , they would have had to institute at least one , and probably several , hunts against members of their own species — the primal fathers who , of course , monopolized all the females . |
16 | Magharba and Majabr also made contracts ( al-thalth , al-nusf ) , again confined mostly to members of their own groups . |
17 | Yes , cats do perform homosexual acts under certain circumstances , but no , they never prefer to mate with members of their own sex if members of the opposite sex are present . |
18 | The other residents are mainly visiting academics , often very senior members of their own universities , from many countries , any academic discipline , and are staying in the college usually for a short time . |
19 | Preadolescent boys and girls of all ages are less identifiable as black , although their ethnicity may be " guessable " for members of their own community . |
20 | They had ‘ as much in common with members of their own class in other European states in their interests and assumptions as they did with their feudal inferiors ’ . |
21 | There is a large list of local YOC groups and a major presence in schools ( in the form of school groups and regular mailings of newsletters and posters to teachers ) , allowing members a local involvement in conservation and fun with approved leaders and other members of their own age . |
22 | After successfully qualifying , two people were advised by members of their own profession to do full-time voluntary work . |
23 | Most ‘ hooligans ’ use the word in a flattering sense to describe the ‘ hardest ’ members of their own group . |
24 | The session ended with an extraordinary meeting demanded by the Conservative junior ministers in order that they might express their discontent to the Cabinet members of their own party . |
25 | An elderly parent living alone invariably has problems to cope with , though , in some area of life , and ideally the people to help them should be members of their own family ; people who know their character and understand their needs , those they do not have to make an effort to relate to and trust , and who can move around freely in their homes , to sort through the various ‘ pockets ’ of their anxiety more easily than any stranger can do . |
26 | Not all catalogues draw attention to the fact that extra vigorous varieties will be overpowering when planted alongside less precocious members of their own family . |
27 | They could work privately , alone or with a partner , and could employ members of their own family , but not " wage earners " . |
28 | These members of her own generation , give a few years , were undeniably pleasant , serious , clever . |
29 | Thus men will have all Government ministries and departments at their disposal , but a woman 's ‘ concerns ’ will be handled by members of her own sex . |
30 | Because if she does n't , I do ; millions in this country do ; and members of her own party do : that urging from the Prime Minister wo n't resolve the dispute — arbitration will . ’ |