Example sentences of "species were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several new plant species were recorded for the reserve but their most interesting find was of signs of a badger that had dug out a bees nest from the ground . |
| 2 | On Barro Colorado Island , herbivory rates and defence mechanisms of young and mature leaves of 46 canopy species were observed throughout the year : leaf properties such as toughness , phenolic content , pubescence , water , fibre and protein contents accounted for over 70% of the variation in herbivory , with leaf toughness most highly correlated . |
| 3 | To test this , EcoRI digests of DNA from a number of species were probed with the KOX2 cDNA under stringent hybridisation conditions ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 4 | However , it was given its name before many of today 's really aggressive species were introduced to the hobby , and it is not that violent a fish ! |
| 5 | But Forbes was unable to shake off the belief that new species were produced by the exertion of a supernatural agent — he proposed a strange theory of ‘ polarity ’ in which the creative power was supposed to have been exerted most strongly at the beginning and at the end of the history of life on earth . |
| 6 | The individual PEG species were identified in the chromatogram by comparing their retention times with the retention time for a pure PEG 634 standard . |
| 7 | To replace the depleted vegetation a range of species were planted on the island in the nineteenth century , including the maritime pine ( Pinus pinaster ) and blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylon ) , as well as a variety of herbs and shrubs which have now established specific vegetation zones . |