Example sentences of "[adv] adapted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian Beef Shorthorn has become naturally adapted to the tropical northern regions and its population is high . |
| 2 | Further serious environmental consequences have arisen from the introduction of grazing herbivores ( such as cattle , sheep , goats , horses , donkeys and mules ) to which the Andean environment is not naturally adapted but which are the mainstay of modern Andean populations . |
| 3 | This rhetoric , though in highly adapted forms , is subsequently shared with television . |
| 4 | Large , short-tailed ( except Lammergeier ) , birds of prey , their long broad wings , with a span of 5–9 ft , highly adapted to soaring . |
| 5 | Terrestrial birds highly adapted to climbing about trees , extracting insect prey from their bark and rotten wood , and also excavating nest holes : tail stiff ( except in Wryneck ) , to act as support against vertical surfaces , with zygodactyl feet ( two toes pointing forwards , two backwards ) but one toe vestigial ; legs short , bill stout ( except Wryneck ) , and tongue very long . |
| 6 | And as you would expect in a town of enterprise , some of these buildings have been sensibly adapted to modern use . |
| 7 | One such room was especially adapted for partially sighted people and the hard of hearing , so that special interest groups with immobility or other disabilities could make use of the function room . |
| 8 | There are many patented wages systems in use especially adapted to meet the requirements of the individual employers , but the basic principles underlying all the systems are the same . |
| 9 | Some rooms are especially adapted for visitors with physical disabilities . |
| 10 | It has been especially adapted by her father to take the strain of the amount of money she always collects . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the above , some schools persisted with , or only cosmetically adapted , their existing management structures . |
| 12 | With further financing and other assistance from the Rural Development Commission and the local authority ( the borough of Pendle encompasses both towns ) , the building was expensively adapted to fulfil his second major contract , which followed hard upon the first . |
| 13 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 14 | Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’ |
| 15 | Some articles are clearly written as a by-product of teaching , perhaps adapted from lectures or intended to form part of a book . |
| 16 | The independent Red Army press was rather better adapted to its readership . |
| 17 | Here we have the notion that as the system of technology ( the domestication of animals and the formation of herds ) develops , it becomes incompatible with the social system , especially the system of inheritance and familial authority , This growing incompatibility , or contradiction , then leads to a revolutionary change in the social system , in this case the change to father right , a system which according to Morgan and Engels was better adapted to pastoralism . |
| 18 | This reaction attributed evolution to pure chance and held the opinion that complex animals could not be considered better adapted to their environments than more lowly forms : all represented degrees of specialization . |
| 19 | Add to this the change in orientation of the legs in many reptiles , which can be used in an efficient running action , unlike the ungainly waddling of the amphibians and it will be apparent why the reptiles were better adapted to terrestrial life than the amphibians , and why they largely displaced them . |
| 20 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 21 | If this interpretation is correct , curriculum managers who wish to manage the curriculum in the sense of modifying it so that it is better adapted to the needs of real children and a real society , will be best advised not simply to resist and criticise , but rather to use the power that many people at all levels of the system actually have . |
| 22 | Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live . |
| 23 | To take a single example , it is reported that the grandchildren of the first European colonists of North America already had eyelid-shapes tending towards those of the Red Indians , which were better adapted to looking out over vast spaces in bright sunlight . |
| 24 | The apes — chimpanzees , gorillas and orang utans — are better adapted for throwing things than monkeys since the structure of their shoulders , combined with their upright posture , allows them to throw with considerable force . |
| 25 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 26 | However backward in some respects , its educational level was high , and it was certainly better adapted in 1880 to the demands and discipline of industrial life than the population of any other part of the world except North America . |
| 27 | Any species must eventually become extinct ; for changes in local conditions will sooner or later allow other species better adapted to the changed conditions to invade and conquer in the struggle for existence . |
| 28 | So far as the finger-work or typesetting goes , she is as quick or quicker than a man ? — They say she is more deft and better adapted to it " ( a trade unionist ) . |
| 29 | Greek artists always preferred to combine vigour with fine finish , and red figure proved better adapted to that ideal . |
| 30 | Each species ' range is determined by the area within which it can outbreed potential rivals because it is better adapted to that set of conditions : |