Example sentences of "plants [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brief selection of flowering plants listed here should help brighten the darker months . |
| 2 | All the plants listed here should be provided with plenty of illumination . |
| 3 | The pH should ideally be between 6–6.8 , but all the fish and plants listed here will tolerate a pH of up to 7.5 . |
| 4 | All the plants listed below require bright lighting . |
| 5 | In the late 1980s , the Japanese , with their own US plants producing so many cars that they had little need to import more , and with voluntary quotas unfilled , decided to reclassify light commercial vehicles as cars . |
| 6 | Fish and water plants suffer too , and in extreme cases an area of water can be literally suffocated as in the infamous case of Lake Eyrie in North America . |
| 7 | One of the main causes of mildew , a fungus which thrives on cotton , is the dampness caused by ordinary household plants placed directly on the floor . |
| 8 | The round black seed germinated that autumn and the following spring the plants developed long , woody tubers . |
| 9 | Some contain two or more different plants to flower together or to follow on from each other . |
| 10 | This octavo volume of 310 pages , with plants arranged under 696 genera , proves his intimate knowledge of the estate . |
| 11 | The Aberdeen Tropical Plants branch recently swept the board at their local Britain in Bloom competition . |
| 12 | A majority of climbing plants coil right handedly , in the direction of a woodscrew as it is driven into the timber . |
| 13 | Sweeping censorship and intimidation are common , and the violent destruction of printing plants has forcibly removed some of Zaire 's most respected newspapers and magazines . |
| 14 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 15 | European Community officials have admitted that only around a third of the funds allocated in 1991 and 1992 to help Easter European countries to improve safety at their nuclear power plants has actually been spent . |
| 16 | Several plants grouped together will create their own humid micro-climate , though overcrowding may make the combined effect too much . |
| 17 | Woodland plants grow well in clearings and along the forest edge and provide food for many insects and mammals . |
| 18 | Many of the Maquis plants grow more leggy in our softer conditions and hard pruning , preferably in early spring , is almost always beneficial . |
| 19 | The plants grow naturally in impoverished peat bogs , and they devour insects as a source of protein . |
| 20 | On the whole , Chris finds his plants grow better using normal light bulbs , rather than fluorescent tubes . |
| 21 | As one moved away from the edge of the water , the plants changed systematically until eventually the natural woodland of the surrounding region was encountered . |
| 22 | If the order is wrong , or if the plants appear badly dried , shrivelled , broken or in similar bad condition , now is the time to say so , and not weeks later , when they are not growing well or are dead , as so many complainants do ! |
| 23 | The plants provide surprisingly ornamental edgings to beds and borders , and also grow well in pots which enable them to be protected , and thereby extend the season both early and late . |
| 24 | It is different : unlike most coastal villages on the western seaboard , it faces east , on a bay of Loch Carron , is well sheltered by a belt of trees on a high bank , has an equable climate that allows palms and exotic plants to flourish outdoors and enjoys immunity from heavy traffic and disturbance . |
| 25 | Polar plants grown experimentally in temperate regimes thrive better and produce more per unit area , performing best in temperatures 5–20°C higher than at home . |
| 26 | Using more than is necessary will not make the plants grow better and might even damage them as well as the rest of the environment . |
| 27 | As carbon dioxide concentration increases C 3 plants benefit more , until at 1000 ppm some C 3 plants perform almost identically to comparable C 4 species . |
| 28 | There were windows all down both sides with blue patterned curtains at intervals and green plants lodged above , behind pelmets . |
| 29 | Dr Ger Van Vliet , scientific director of the Botanical Gardens in Lieden , said his tasks in the next three years would be to make customs officials more aware of endangered plants , reducing the illegal trade , and help countries supplying wild plants to sell correctly propagated specimens . |
| 30 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |