Example sentences of "species [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ideal species for community tanks , which is wild-caught . |
| 2 | There can be several reasons why a community tank can have its uses , one being as a mixture of different species for display purposes . |
| 3 | The classification of species of mushroom polyps , as with so many reef invertebrates , is far from clear , even to marine biologists . |
| 4 | The Woodland Survey indicates that there are no particular features of their bird populations , and certainly there are no characteristic species of beech woods in the way that Wood Warblers and Redstarts favour the open oak woods of the sand , or Nightingales the damp coppice of the clay . |
| 5 | The course boasts a large conservation area , and it is my intention to plant some two thousand species of hardwood trees . |
| 6 | He estimated that there were 108 species of land birds , only nine of which were found in islands to the westward and nineteen to the east . |
| 7 | Although there are several interesting species of land snails , the best-known molluscs amongst neurobiologists , if not gastronomes , have been the giant sea slugs , such as Hermissenda . |
| 8 | Much research in the pathophysiology of gall stones has been devoted to various molecular species of bile salts . |
| 9 | Southern species of fur seals are island breeders ( Figure 5.15 ) . |
| 10 | Wings are short or absent in several arctic species of stone flies , crane flies , midges and moths ; females are especially likely to have reduced wings and to avoid flying . |
| 11 | The Scribbled Anthias is one of the most spectacular species of Fairy Basslets to be occasionally available to the hobbyist . |
| 12 | INTRODUCED GAME BIRDS : Among numerous species of game birds from Asia and North America which have been introduced into the region from time to time , these have established themselves in at least one area , the pheasants in woodlands . |
| 13 | This shows the remarkable similarity that has evolved in the gape patterns of the chicks of two species of whydah birds and the chicks of the birds that they parasitise . |
| 14 | Within the Convergence only five species of birds feed on land or in fresh water , all on islands close to the Convergence ; they include two species of pintail ducks , two of sheathbills and a single species of pipit ( Stonehouse , 1972 ) . |
| 15 | Malaria is primarily a disease of the blood , and is transmitted from person to person by the bite of females of certain species of anopheline mosquitoes . |
| 16 | Yet another species of penguin nests on Kidney Island , the Magellanic or ‘ jackass ’ penguin . |
| 17 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 18 | The cut site was densely populated with many species of forest trees , the tallest of which had developed as coppice , while the burnt site had a loose canopy of pioneering Cecropia spp. 7m tall , and the bulldozed site had a thin layer of herbs , notably Xyris sp . |
| 19 | These include two species of porcelain crabs , and squat lobsters . |
| 20 | Pellets from species like barn owls are more compact and resistant to breakdown than those from other species , and pellet consistency also depends in large part on the food residues that go into it . |
| 21 | Though this species is not freely available , it ( when available ) proves to be a hardy and attractive species like M. hippuroides . |
| 22 | We had Gaboon vipers , puff adders , spitting cobras as well as harmless species like tree snakes and pythons . |
| 23 | Excitation within a d-d band may lead to very little resonance Raman enhancement , and indeed for some species with inversion centers it has been found that the Raman bands are weaker than in the normal Raman spectrum when excited by light in the absorption profile of a d-d band . |
| 24 | Crush eggs and caterpillars when seen : trap fruit species with grease bands ; spray with a contact insecticide , or a systemic one if you suspect them to be feeding out of sight . |
| 25 | The choice of species in tree plantings is also important . |
| 26 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 27 | Immigration from Brazil 's cities is increasing mercury poisoning by gold-prospectors and the taking of species by trophy hunters . |