Example sentences of "adapted to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their long arms are particularly well adapted to life in trees . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All penguins are flightless but are perfectly adapted to life in water and to withstanding cold . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , one group of toads , the spadefoot toads , have adapted to life in some of the hottest and driest places in the world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The rare Himalayan tahr — a distant relative of the mountain goat — has also adapted to life in harsh mountainous conditions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Among the antelope these include gazelle species that have adapted to life in India . |
| 13 | Both the nilgai and the four-horned antelope were originally Indian woodland species that have adapted to life on the plains . |
| 14 | 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 . |