1. Toads are colonising the whole place.

2. Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment.

3. Patient M17 was the only individual who was colonised by the epidemic strain at the time of first referral to the unit.

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4. The inference is therefore that the fish is either dead or cured by the time fungus gets around to colonising it.

5. The algal spores are airborne and blanketweed will colonise any suitable pool, irrespective of whether or not it is planted.

6. The rude but beautiful weeds that colonise the forgotten or unofficial places provide a commonwealth of their own.

7. Patients with active colitis were colonised less frequently and with lower numbers of E coli than were control patients.

8. Fears of the emergence of drug resistance in colonising bacteria in patients receiving selective decontamination of the gut have not been realised.

9. But on many streams which mink have colonised, particularly those close to intensive agriculture, fish are no longer abundant.

10. The worm is now poised to emerge from its dormant phase and begin to spread rapidly by colonising more machines and sites.

11. Some colonised the deep seas where there was little light and lost their eyes altogether.

12. Each of the Edinburgh patients colonised by the epidemic strain showed a rising IgG antibody response to P cepacia-specific cell wall antigen.

13. Mussels had colonised the remains of an ancient forest and we asked about waders, so busily taking advantage and feasting there.

14. He believes man must colonise space to survive.

15. The researchers found that Asaia colonise the mosquitoes' gut and salivary glands.

16. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon.

17. When the tide goes out it leaves mud that the mangroves are trying to colonise.

18. For example, Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space.

19. Vascular access may increase the risk of infection but cannulas are not usually colonised by organisms originating in the gut.

20. We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised.

21. Thus, pressure is increasing to identify sources and modes of transmission, and to segregate colonised from non-colonised patients.

22. Had they done so they would certainly have greatly accelerated the rate at which they colonised the land.

23. But neither fish can be regarded as the one whose descendants eventually colonised the land permanently.

24. In theory then, global warming might allow these vectors to spread into areas they weren't previously able to colonise.

25. ‘We were interested whether behavioural flexibility can increase the chance of a given species to successfully colonise cities,’ said Dr Maklakov.

26. But a buried carcass is not going to stay fresh for very long, and the bacterial communities that colonise it are likely to threaten the beetle's developing larvae.

27. Residents of Russia's far east fear that China is planning to plunder their oil and timber and perhaps even to colonise their empty spaces.

28. "We were interested whether behavioural flexibility can increase the chance of a given species to successfully colonise cities," explained evolutionary biology expert Dr Alexei Maklakov.

29. But even producing knock-offs takes skill, particularly when the original companies are determined to colonise the Chinese market.

30. In the mid-19th century the Norwegian government, eager to colonise with people a terrain it owned in name only, offered free land here to impoverished farmers from the south.