Example sentences of "species that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also made aware , by this ability to feel at a distance , of the movements of other fish swimming alongside it , an important ability for those species that form shoals . |
| 2 | Cultural behaviour is therefore most likely to be found in species that form social groups . |
| 3 | The island has many species that indicate a strong link in the past with Asian wildlife but also a connection , although a weaker one , with Australian fauna . |
| 4 | Species that developed within a narrow environment such as the Galapagos Islands are being squeezed out . |
| 5 | They were now revealed as what they had always been , not figures of fun , not left-wing political extremists , not loony vegetarians ( though they were vegetarians ) , but harmless , mild , Labour-voting , CND-supporting , Fabian pamphlet-reading intellectuals , of a species that Alix now knew to be far from extinct . |
| 6 | While this has its origins in the manipulation of plant and animal species that began c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3 ) it has been confined to plant and animal breeding programmes . |
| 7 | It is typical of species that breed in short-lived pools , like the spadefoot toad . |
| 8 | But explosive breeding also occurs in many North American , European and Asian species that breed in permanent pools . |
| 9 | Each autumn , almost half the species that breed in northern Europe start to move south . |
| 10 | Atlantic storm petrels Hydrobates pelagicus and Leach 's storm petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa are temperate species that breed within the arctic fringe only in Iceland and Labrador . |
| 11 | Evidently there had been a series of mass extinctions followed each time by the appearance of an entirely new set of species that formed the population of the next stable period . |
| 12 | Judges are not the first species that springs to mind as a faithful tribune of popular perception . |
| 13 | The larger transcript may correspond to either an unprocessed version of the 2.6-kb species or a distinct RNA species that bears some homology to the atk cDNA . |
| 14 | Species that depend on small numbers of prey species either require large hunting ranges ( Nilsson , 1984 ) or have to be nomadic , migrating in search of prey . |
| 15 | The Sierra Club Legal Defence Fund has said of the decline of the murrelet " this is further evidence that our forest ecosystems no longer are capable of supporting the species that depend on them " . |
| 16 | One of the species that does , according to a State Department report last year , is Fusarium semitectum . |
| 17 | The Black-blotched Butterflyfish ( Chaetodon ephippium ) is another species that does particularly well in an aquarium , when properly acclimated . |
| 18 | Though cuckoos are well known for laying their eggs in the nests of other species , more species of the cuckoo family build nests and incubate their eggs than do not There are in fact 80 species that act as true parents to their young . |
| 19 | They also include species that eat their way through enormous quantities of sediment , extracting edible particles from it , and in the process reprocessing all the sediment ; some of the fossil heart urchins probably had this habit ( see p. 128 ) . |
| 20 | While mass-bred imports often lose the more difficult traits of the natural fish , she has mixed species that prefer hard water with those that prefer acid . |
| 21 | It was a creature known in the Reconciled Dominions as a voider , one of a brutal species that haunted the wastes north of the Lenten Way . |
| 22 | The number of species that featured dwarfs ( males of half the female length or smaller ) as opposed to equally sized partners was 0:41 in the hunters , 93:66 in the web-builders and 17:3 in the ambushers. b , c , Scattergrams of male ( ordinate ) and female ( abscissa ) body size of active hunters ( Lycosidae/Pisauridae , wolfspiders ; Salticidae , jumping spiders ) and sit-and-wait predators ( Araneidae , orb spiders ; Thomisidae crab spiders ) . |
| 23 | Fish photography is probably best started with a species that stays relatively still on the gravel . |
| 24 | The species that survives today , the pearly nautilus , grows to about 20 centimetres across . |
| 25 | Flight-muscle homogenates of Hyalophora cecropia and Locusta migratoria will actively oxidize fatty acids by mechanisms not unlike those occurring in vertebrate tissues ( Gilbert , 1967 ) but much more is known of flight-muscle metabolism in the species that use carbohydrates . |
| 26 | Species that use molecular H 2 as an electron donor in the gut belong to the genera Desulfovibrio and Desulfobulbus . |
| 27 | Species that overwinter make use of their avian or mammalian pre-adaptations , rather than special modifications , for polar life . |
| 28 | Despite popular mythology concerning ‘ evil ’ and vicious species that track down their victims ruthlessly and mercilessly , the reality is that no venom , no poison , no bite , no sting , is ever administered except under extreme provocation or simply by accident , unless the victim is either a potential prey or a rival belonging to the same species . |
| 29 | In spite of all my experience or rearing wild animals , the one species that continued to defeat me was the infant elephant . ’ |
| 30 | He suggests that Marx 's interpretation of Hegel ( even without the benefit of access to the Jena lectures ) produced an account of the formation of the human species that reduces communicative action to instrumental action — labour ( Habermas 1974 : 169 ) . |