Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] evolved from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three species of bee seem so closely related that they must have evolved from a single carrion-eating ancestor . |
| 2 | It was obvious that the fish — the ‘ lowest ’ class within the vertebrate phylum — must have evolved from a pre-existing invertebrate form , yet this had occurred before fossils became plentiful in the rocks . |
| 3 | But Hankamer 's idea is more appropriate to the ‘ evolution ’ of fully fledged languages , a process of interest in its own right but somewhat peripheral to the project of accounting for how more complex linguistic structures might have evolved from simpler ones . |
| 4 | Thus the present smooth and uniform state of the universe could have evolved from many different nonuniform initial states . |
| 5 | Such cells may have evolved from a coming-together of prokaryotes . |
| 6 | However , James Valentine of the University of California suggests worms may have evolved from arthropods ( jointed-legged creatures ) rather than the other way around , because they had cavities in their middle layer ( known as coeloms ) which they used as skeletons to support themselves when burrowing . |
| 7 | Although the bird was native to America , its name may have evolved from the days when turkey was first distributed in England by Turkish merchants . |
| 8 | Molluscs may have evolved from a flatworm-like ancestor independently of the annelids , but molecular evidence supports the possibility of an annelid link . |
| 9 | The theories discussed below may have evolved from different assumptions , but it is still difficult to discriminate completely between them . |
| 10 | Desmond Morris later drew attention to several signals that resemble activities produced by the autonomic nervous system such as auditory signals ( shouts ) that may have evolved from rapid automatic breathing , and even the scent-marking by urine at territory boundaries in mammals . |
| 11 | Darwin believed that very similar species , such as those grouped into a single genus , would have evolved from a fairly recent common ancestor . |
| 12 | Multimedia will have evolved from a technological issue into a metaphysical one . |