Example sentences of "plants that were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIG. 1 The stable carbon isotope composition of upper leaves from C3 and C4 plants that were grown at daytime [ CO 2 ] from near 350μmolmol -1 |
| 2 | We calculated a 13 C as a function of c a in the 38-m chamber from the 13 C of leaves from C4 plants that were grown with oats , mustard and wheat using a fractionation by C4 plants relative to air of 3.136 . |
| 3 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 4 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 5 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 6 | The botanical annals are full of examples of plants that were introduced into a novel area , only to become seriously weedy — witness the prickly pear 's progress in Australia and South Africa , or the rhododendron in Britain . |