The explorers used blankets and other supplies for barter to get food from the native people. |
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We learned the language with the help of a native informant. |
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He entered with a dash of gallantry, native, one might say, to the reckless spirit of the accolent. |
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Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties. |
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The land was settled by dispossessing the native people who lived here. |
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For most colonial wives, the houseboi, the domestic servant, was the first real contact with a native. |
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More recently the land has been part of a grassland reversion scheme, returning the surrounding fields to native chalk grassland. |
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Of the seven metals known in antiquity, only gold occurred regularly in native form in the natural environment. |
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The native peoples under Roman rule became Romanised and keen to adopt Roman ways. |
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Cassius Dio relates that he brought war elephants and heavy armaments which would have overawed any remaining native resistance. |
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Most native pottery was unsophisticated however and intended only for local markets. |
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The degree to which earlier native beliefs survived is difficult to gauge precisely. |
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There was a distinct native Italian style using black on a white background, which was no doubt cheaper than fully coloured work. |
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This may indicate that Cerdic was a native Briton, and that his dynasty became anglicised over time. |
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Widespread extermination and displacement of the native peoples of Britain is still considered a viable possibility by certain scholars. |
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Other directives dealt with the training of native clergy and the missionaries' conduct. |
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These questions will need to be addressed using mono-specific AhLPAT2 antibodies and immunomicroscopic analysis of native peanut tissues. |
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As in other Scandinavian countries, the ancient Norse followed a form of native Germanic paganism known as Norse paganism. |
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Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic influence, this influenced the literature written in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. |
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Within a century of the invasion, intermarriage between the native English and the Norman immigrants had become common. |
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William remained in England after his coronation and tried to reconcile the native magnates. |
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Although he put two Normans in overall charge, he retained many of the native English sheriffs. |
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Some of the native abbots were also deposed, both at the council held near Easter and at a further one near Whitsun. |
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For this reason many south Italian churches preserve works from France alongside their native pieces. |
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Richard first grew close to her at a tournament held in her native Navarre. |
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Shortly thereafter, colonist George Howe was killed by a native while searching alone for crabs in Albemarle Sound. |
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Interaction between the Dutch and native population mainly took place in Sri Lanka and the modern Indonesian Islands. |
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Compared to previous administrations, Napoleon III was far more sympathetic to the native Algerians. |
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From 1830 to 1946, only between 3,000 and 6,000 native Algerians were granted French citizenship. |
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In the 1580s and 1590s, James promoted the literature of his native country. |
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Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph. |
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Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin. |
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All native flora and fauna in Ireland is made up of species that migrated from elsewhere in Europe, and Great Britain in particular. |
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Notable exceptions include the Kerry slug and certain species of wood lice native to Ireland but not Great Britain. |
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The various governments and native groups worked closely together to realize these goals. |
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Many more native South West students are prepared to go to the north of England, than northern students are prepared to study in the South West. |
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Note that, as illustrated, the order is determined not by the currency, but by the native language of the document context. |
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Returning to his native countryside by 1773, Jenner became a successful family doctor and surgeon, practising on dedicated premises at Berkeley. |
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She met and married Henry Beveridge in Calcutta where she had gone in 1873 to open a school for native Indian girls. |
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The English are a nation and an ethnic group native to England, who speak the English language. |
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Alternatively, a ruling class of Beaker individuals may have made the migration and come to control the native population at some level. |
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Results were very mixed however and the Gaeltacht where native speakers lived continued to retract. |
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The last native speaker of Manx died in the 1970s, though use of the Manx language never fully ceased. |
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The last native Manx Gaelic speaker died in 1974, although there are ongoing attempts at revival. |
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Despite modern trends, regional and traditional forms of dress have developed their own significance as a symbol of native tradition. |
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Indonesian has the same function in Indonesia, but Javanese has more native speakers. |
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English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages. |
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Dropout rates for ESL students in multiple countries are much higher than dropout rates for native speakers. |
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Some ESL students avoid interactions with native speakers because of their frustration or embarrassment at their poor English. |
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Immigrant students often also lack knowledge of popular culture, which limits their conversations with native speakers to academic topics. |
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Forty six languages are known to have just one native speaker while 357 languages have fewer than 50 speakers. |
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To avoid beatings and other punishments, Yuchi, and other Indian children abandoned their native languages in favor of English. |
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A small number of people in Cornwall have been brought up to be bilingual native speakers, and the language is taught in many schools. |
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Thomas was born in Redruth but lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. |
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A person's second language or L2, is a language that is not the native language of the speaker, but that is used in the locale of that person. |
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In 2015, French was estimated to have 77 to 110 million native speakers, and 190 million secondary speakers. |
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In Northern Germany, Standard German was a foreign language to most inhabitants, whose native dialects were subsets of Low German. |
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However, examples like this are perceived by native speakers as excessively bureaucratic, stylistically awkward or even satirical. |
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An Austrian study finds no effect on grade repetition among native students exposed to migrant students. |
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Research suggests that immigration has positive effects on native workers' health. |
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As immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs, which improves native workers' health outcomes. |
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Children are described as 'acquiring' their native language, where there is no previous information and knowledge in their mind. |
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It is the native language of the Punjabi people who inhabit the historical Punjab region of India and Pakistan. |
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This triggered a Brahman backlash in northwestern India, which argued that the language should be written in the native Devanagari script. |
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The western areas, where the native clergy was strongest, was an area little covered by Bede's informants. |
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In Vietnam, Mahayana Buddhism is practised, which is influenced by native animism but with strong emphasis on ancestor worship. |
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The Philippines has more than a hundred native languages, most without official recognition from the national government. |
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Originally, Indians were the ones who taught the native inhabitants about writing. |
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Cassandra from Ferrara, Italy, was still considered a foreigner because not native to Rome where she was residing. |
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Mushrooms with psychoactive properties have long played a role in various native medicine traditions in cultures all around the world. |
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She did not involve herself in English politics, instead she kept up an active interest in her native country. |
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The occupants were wealthy Romans or native Britons who had adopted Roman customs. |
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Irish hagiographers wrote primarily in Latin while some of the later saint's lives were written in the hagiographer's native vernacular Irish. |
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Such hagiographical calendars were important in establishing lists of native Irish saints, in imitation of continental calendars. |
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It was not until the reign of Henry IV that English became the native tongue of the kings of England. |
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Punjabi folk music imbued the play with the native ethos as the English setting of the Shakespeare's play was transposed into Punjabi milieu. |
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It has been passed down through the generations and Spenser views this system as a native backward custom which must be destroyed. |
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The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross or some pieces of cotton cloth. |
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In Delius's native Britain, it was 1907 before his music made regular appearances in concert programmes, after Thomas Beecham took it up. |
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Wherever they are, they wear their native dress and their music is known throughout the world. |
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A native of Southeast Asia, the melinjo tree is found wild in the forests and is also cultivated in some areas. |
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According to history, the melinjo is a native of the Malay Peninsula from where it later spread to Assam in India and to Fiji. |
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The contemporary sport developed in Canada from European and native influences. |
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Carlos Reutemann became a politician and served as governor of his native state in Argentina. |
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They are also historically known as the Loiners, referring to the demonym for a native of Leeds. |
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Having achieved his goal, Lewis declared himself a professional and moved back to his native England. |
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The native horse and the English horse were bred together, resulting in a compact, muscular horse. |
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Maurice Denis, one of the leaders and theoricists of the Nabis movement in the 1890s, was a native of Granville, in the Manche department. |
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Among members were Raoul Dufy, a native of Le Havre, Albert Marquet, Francis Picabia and Maurice Utrillo. |
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His work was embraced in France, where he sold more works than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school. |
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Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe, Africa and the Americas, but also elsewhere. |
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In Africa it is the official language of Equatorial Guinea, but has few native speakers there. |
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French also has official status in much of Africa, but relatively few native speakers. |
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The Roman provinces maintained trade routes and relations with native tribes in Denmark, and Roman coins have been found in Denmark. |
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Neoclassicism from France was slowly adopted by native Danish architects who increasingly participated in defining architectural style. |
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They met with considerable success as many of the native Welsh rulers, resentful of Llywelyn's overlordship, surrendered and joined the English. |
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Edward now enjoyed a degree of direct control in the native Welsh areas which no previous English king had achieved. |
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This episode prompted Chichester to expand his plans to expropriate the legal titles of all native landowners in the province. |
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They believed it was their duty to civilize the native people. |
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There is a great value and even a life lesson in the story of a native Arizonan. |
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Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world. |
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So far as known the Yurok never cut growing timber for fuel, nor did any California Indians, nor probably any axless native Americans. |
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He was a Bechuana by birth, a good hunter, and, for a native, a very clever man. |
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So.......... there isn't even THAT difference, according to a native Canadarian. |
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I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance. |
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Along the way, he has built some fascinating bridges between jazz, pop, classical music and the chacareras and tangos of his native Argentina. |
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There is nothing quite like the affection of a transplanted New Yorker for his native concrete jungle. |
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I will neither see my native city demolished and burnt, nor the matrons, virgins, and free-born youths of Campania dragged to constupration. |
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In the Western Isles a native tradition of building pots, known as croggans, by hand, survived into the 20th century. |
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Using a small brigantine and ten native canoes, they sailed along the coast and made landfalls. |
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Aboriginal groups could apply to jointly manage all Crown land under the most radical overhaul of native title settlement proposed in Victoria. |
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I had a so-called dog-robber, a native boy who washed my clothes and cooked for me. |
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A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone. |
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Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. |
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In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population. |
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Conversely, native Francien-speaking poets often displayed a degree of linguistic smugness and superiority. |
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Then she sang, with an exaggeration of her native gallousness, several sentimental ballads of the day. |
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You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. |
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This is a male contraceptive pill based on the active ingredient of gendarussa, a shrub native to Indonesia, where the drug has been developed. |
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John W. Stokes was a native Greenvillian whose family had settled here soon after the Revolution. |
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Several species of green lacewings are native to this region, all general predators that feed on a wide variety of insect pests. |
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Mr. Guirl is a native of Indiana, and his partner, Mr. H. A. Daggett, who was born in Maine, joined him at Clay City about six years ago. |
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Although the number of native vascular plants is low by world standards, Scotland's substantial bryophyte flora is of global importance. |
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The flora comprises 3,354 vascular plant species, of which 2,297 are native and 1,057 have been introduced. |
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The island has a wide variety of trees, including native species of birch, beech, ash, hawthorn, elm, oak, yew, pine, cherry and apple. |
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Only a mere 20 million people or so currently speak the North Germanic languages as their native tongue. |
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Then the Empire recruited entire tribal groups under their native leaders as military officers. |
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He was received by the native cacique Guacanagari, who gave him permission to leave some of his men behind. |
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Only seven or eight of the native 'Indians' arrived in Spain alive, but they made quite an impression on Seville. |
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It is the third most common native language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish. |
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English is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin and Spanish. |
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English is an official language of countries populated by few descendants of native speakers of English. |
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There are different L2 varieties that differ based on the native language of the speakers. |
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Up to that time, British iron manufacturers had used considerable amounts of imported iron to supplement native supplies. |
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Below the tree line are wooded areas, including British and European native oak woodlands and introduced softwood plantations. |
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The native red squirrel is found in the Lake District and in a few other parts of England. |
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It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew and butterwort, two of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain. |
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There is also the risk of disease being introduced, which can further threaten native populations. |
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Thousands of sheep, include the native Herdwicks which graze on the fellsides across the district, were destroyed. |
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It was the next native Persian dynasty after the collapse of the Sassanid Persian empire, caused by the Arab conquest. |
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It was written in Medieval Latin, was highly abbreviated, and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. |
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Afterwards, most diplomatic documents were written in French and later just native or other languages. |
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There are 55 mammal species in Ireland and of them only 26 land mammal species are considered native to Ireland. |
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A land of green fields for crop cultivation and cattle rearing limits the space available for the establishment of native wild species. |
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Hedgerows, however, traditionally used for maintaining and demarcating land boundaries, act as a refuge for native wild flora. |
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Remnants of native forest can be found scattered around the island, in particular in the Killarney National Park. |
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He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria, from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi. |
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The native term for the language is Cymraeg, and for the name of the country of Wales it is Cymru. |
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At one point, Brin has a Maori playing a native drum called a zzxjoanw. |
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The Reddit app will look familiar to anyone that has been asked to try out the mobile website, but it does feel like a native app, rather than a simple app wrapper. |
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I played seven sets of doubles with Mitchell and David, the native marker. |
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During the British Raj, British sportsmen in India would hunt jackals on horseback with hounds as a substitute for the fox hunting of their native England. |
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Before the arrival of the first settlers in Ireland about 9,000 years ago, the land was largely covered by forests of oak, ash, elm, hazel, yew, and other native trees. |
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FitzOsbern and Odo found it difficult to control the native population and undertook a programme of castle building to maintain their hold on the kingdom. |
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It is the second language in the world by the number of people who speak it as a mother tongue, after Mandarin Chinese, with 437 million native speakers. |
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It is estimated that more than 437 million people speak Spanish as a native language, which qualifies it as second on the lists of languages by number of native speakers. |
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If the value of wages in the new country surpasses the value of wages in one's native country, he or she may choose to migrate, as long as the costs are not too high. |
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As the Norman lordships became increasingly Gaelicized and made alliances with native chiefs, whose power steadily increased, crown control slowly eroded. |
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This was easy to do as the native Irish had no great sense of national identity at that time and were prone to mercenarism and shifting alliances. |
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Despite the enormous number of disulfide combinations possible, LDLR oxidative folding leads to a single native species with 30 unique intradomain disulfides. |
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Later, he became a landlord of property confiscated from the native Irish. |
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Mount Vernon native Matt Bondurant received critical acclaim for his historic novel The Wettest County in the World about moonshiners in Franklin County during prohibition. |
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Cumin is native to the region from the eastern Mediterranean to India. |
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Oakland native Ward is now unbeaten in 25 fights and can now claim to be one of the top few pound-for-pound fighters on the planet after a technically dazzling display. |
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The native Denverite decided to go to University in Boulder. |
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During the initial exploration of the mainland coast and the native settlements, the Europeans blamed the natives of the village of Aquascogoc for stealing a silver cup. |
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Research on the economic effects of undocumented immigrants is scant but existing studies suggests that the effects are positive for the native population, and public coffers. |
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Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart. |
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During the past twenty-five years, entheogenic mushrooms have been available in food preparations prepared by native peoples of third world countries. |
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At his first rendezvous, De Marsay is blindfolded and driven endlessly through the streets, an estranging device which makes his native city a sexual labyrinth. |
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In parts of the Caribbean, such as Haiti, French has official status, but most people speak creoles such as Haitian Creole as their native language. |
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Not long before his birth, his parents had moved from his father's native Ireland to Cornwall, where his mother came from, in order for his father to find work as a policeman. |
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Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. |
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Finnochio or Sweet fennel is a biennial plant, a native of Italy and Portugal. It differs from common fennel in its dwarfer stature, darker hue, and shorter duration. |
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Me, I've spent my whole life studying native militarians. They are an interesting people, clad in colorful native dress and participating in bizarre social customs. |
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Yet within this general trend, a native school of painting was developing. |
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Among the purposes of foreign language learning are traveling abroad, communication with native speakers, reading foreign literature or scientific and technical works. |
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By the late 1590s, his championing of native Scottish tradition was diffused to some extent by the increasing likelihood of his succession to the English throne. |
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Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home. |
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In France's overseas possessions, native use of French is increasing. |
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The star indicates much trouble for the native in whose chart it is matutine rising or setting, but if the aspect is matutine culmination Arcturus brings riches and honor. |
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Many royal grants and privileges were granted to Scottish merchants until the 18th century, at which time the settlers began to merge more and more into the native population. |
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Today, much of the remaining native Caledonian Forest lies within the Cairngorms National Park and remnants of the forest remain at 84 locations across Scotland. |
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He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. |
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Despite the extinction of the professional poet, the integration of the native elite into a wider cultural world did bring other literary benefits. |
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Beech and lime, though not native to Ireland, are also common there. |
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Despite this, Urdu was chosen as a token of unity and as a lingua franca so as not to give any native Pakistani language preference over the other. |
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Although English is used in most elite circles, and Punjabi has a plurality of native speakers, Urdu is the lingua franca and national language of Pakistan. |
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It was the largest native land claim settlement in Canadian history. |
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At that time, most of the native inhabitants of Roman Britain spoke Brythonic languages, and were all regarded as Britons, divided into numerous tribes. |
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As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle. |
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With few resources and using information given by caciques, he journeyed across the Isthmus of Panama with 190 Spaniards, a few native guides, and a pack of dogs. |
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After a difficult voyage facing strong winds and currents, they reached Atacames where they found a large native population under Inca rule, but they did not land. |
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They are now important staple foods, replacing native African crops. |
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The settlers kept importing slaves, which resulted in a high proportion of native Africans from West Africa, who continued to practice their culture in new surroundings. |
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Of these, only Caddo and Choctaw still have living native speakers, although several other tribes are working to teach and revitalize their languages. |
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Bede represented the native British church as wicked and sinful. |
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It has also become by far the most important language of international communication when people who share no native language meet anywhere in the world. |
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English is unusual among world languages in how many of its users are not native speakers but speakers of English as a second or foreign language. |
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There also exists a grouping of major native varieties of English in the southern hemisphere, the most prominent being Australian and New Zealand English. |
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Most of these areas were not incorporated fully into England until the 16th century, and native Welsh speakers still lived there until at least the 19th century. |
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Owing to the risk of French personnel driving on their native right side of the road, sensors in the vehicles alert the driver if the vehicle strays to the right side. |
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When Augustine failed to rise to greet the second delegation of British bishops at the next meeting, Bede says the native bishops refused to submit to Augustine. |
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He took the same attitude to native people he met on the Beagle voyage. |
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By 1866 any native of Newcastle upon Tyne could be called a Geordie. |
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Bede uses the story of Augustine's two meetings with two groups of British bishops as an example of how the native clergy refused to cooperate with the Gregorian mission. |
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As it is I see Destitution and Despair ahead of me, and have begun an epitaph in the Micawber style for my future grave in the precincts of my native County's jail. |
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He was succeeded as archbishop by Deusdedit, a native Englishman. |
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In political terms he is a partisan of his native Northumbria, amplifying its role in English history over and above that of Mercia, its great southern rival. |
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The native Picts, according to the medieval writer Bede, were converted in two stages, initially by native Britons under Ninian, and subsequently by Irish missionaries. |
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As evidence of their teaching, Bede reports that some of their students, who survived to his own day were as fluent in Greek and Latin as in their native language. |
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The majority of the vocabulary of Scottish Gaelic is native Celtic. |
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Willibrord was a monk of Ripon who was also a native of Northumbria. |
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Genetic studies have supported the prevalence of native populations. |
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This would have included large grants of land to native Irish lords who had sided with the English during the war, for example Niall Garve O'Donnell. |
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Local musicians learned Western instrumental styles to create their own popular styles including their native languages and indigenous musical features. |
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Shelta, the language of the nomadic Irish Travellers is native to Ireland. |
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During the colonial period, native literary figures were influenced by western literary realism and took up increasingly varied topics and narrative forms. |
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The few native land mammals in Greenland include the polar bear, arctic fox, reindeer, arctic hare, musk ox, collared lemming, ermine, and arctic wolf. |
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Brown simplified the long narrow stretch by sweeping it into a lawn that dropped right to the riverbank, stopped at each end by bold clumps of native trees. |
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The Bronze Age Beaker period is noteworthy, since archeological finds seem to indicate a strong continuity with native Bronze Age traditions in Ireland as much as Britain. |
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A native speaker of Chinese, for example, may face many more difficulties than a native speaker of German, because German is more closely related to English than Chinese is. |
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There is also low mobility among these students from low to high performing groups, which can prevent them from achieving the same academic progress as native speakers. |
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He first smashed the native Mameluke army at the battle of the Pyramids on 21 July, and secured lower Egypt before leading an expedition in Syria against Turkish forces. |
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Many nations and regions have their own characteristic sausages, using meats and other ingredients native to the region and employed in traditional dishes. |
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The second invasion involved a substantially larger force and Caesar coerced or invited many of the native Celtic tribes to pay tribute and give hostages in return for peace. |
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Roman coins and pottery have been found circulating at native settlement sites in the Scottish Lowlands in the years before 100, indicating growing Romanisation. |
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Additionally a popular native variety of sausage is the red pudding. |
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Most people who teach English are in fact not native speakers. |
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Some countries use the official language designation to empower indigenous groups by giving them access to the government in their native languages. |
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The first Englishman to mention the story was Bede and he seems to have taken it, not from native texts or traditions, but from The Book of the Popes. |
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An indigenous language or autochthonous language is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people, often reduced to the status of a minority language. |
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There is no record of any native Amerindian population in the British Virgin Islands during this period, although the native population on nearby Saint Croix was decimated. |
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This native British Church developed in isolation from Rome under the influence of missionaries from Ireland and was centred on monasteries instead of bishoprics. |
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The Maolis were very polite. I was assured by a member of the House of Representatives that the native race is not decreasing, but actually increasing slightly. |
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This article focuses primarily on the modern definition, a distinct minority community of mixed Eurasian ancestry, whose native language is English. |
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Godwine was probably a native of Sussex, and by the end of Edward the Confessor's reign a third part of the county was in the hands of his family. |
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There were many small skirmishes and larger battles with the native Irish clans in the following two centuries, with the Danes sometimes siding with allied clans. |
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This is done because the community has no native state of its own. |
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In all these countries, Latin American Spanish is the vernacular language of the majority of the population, giving Spanish the most native speakers of any Romance language. |
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Even this tiny residue was further diminished in the decades that followed, the elimination of native landholding being most complete in southern parts of the country. |
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Some of these new residents intermarried with the native English, but the extent of this practice in the years immediately after Hastings is unclear. |
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