Example sentences of "modes of life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large amphibians of the Palaeozoic did not survive beyond the Permian , and so our inferences about their modes of life have to be made entirely from the bony fossils that survive . |
| 2 | The character of the rocks , and their setting in the past geography at the time when they accumulated , diagnoses the climatic setting in which the extinct fauna lived , and climate imposes certain restraints on possible modes of life . |
| 3 | Above right A sample of the different shapes achieved by the brachiopods : different shapes for differing modes of life |
| 4 | Unlike the brachiopods , many of the modes of life of living bivalve molluscs can be more or less directly matched in fossil examples . |
| 5 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 6 | The most powerful case against randomness is that afforded by mass extinction and radiation events , whereby a wide variety of taxonomic groups with different modes of life , and effective biological independence , have experienced synchronised diversity reduction or increase . |
| 7 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 8 | inherit , preserve and pass on a tradition … they engender modes of life , habits of thought and standards of judgement which render them centres of resistance to crude forces which threaten steady and peaceful evolution … |
| 9 | Yeah , they may feel constrained in their very traditional modes of life dominated by religion or some er some restrictive erm |