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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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breed
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Adults are easy to keep in aquaria for they rarely climb out if well-treated, and will breed freely in captivity .
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Given optimum conditions, Oscars will breed in captivity , but sexing is difficult.
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Few fishkeepers for whatever reason, seem interested in attempting to breed this cichlid in captivity .
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Many attempts have been made to breed them in captivity , however, there are flaws in this idea.
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To date it does not appear that this species has been bred in captivity .
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Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity , are far more accommodating.
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Many campaigners feel that chimps for scientific purposes should be bred in captivity , to avoid draining the wild resources.
keep
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Other animals were sometimes kept in captivity , but never with much breeding success.
raise
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Some environmental groups maintaining that the birds should be left to their own devices rather than being raised in captivity .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Folkes says that he was held in captivity for over a year.
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In his autobiography, Mandela describes his life during captivity .
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In his book, he describes what life was like during his long captivity .
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The hostages are now entering their fourth week in captivity .
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The industrialist, who was captured on November 24th, was freed after 84 days in captivity .
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Wilson was released from captivity just before the end of the war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both these birds may have escaped from captivity .
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In the ocean they live to be 40, double their normal life expectancy in captivity .
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James was released from captivity but not from his nobles' displeasure, incited largely by the scheming Red Douglas family.
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Medicinal leeches in captivity can live for many years, but nobody in my local hospital knows precisely how long.
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One young man of John's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him.
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These fishes eat well in captivity , but it may take a little coaxing to get them started.
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To do so you would have to keep careful pedigree records of caddises bred in captivity , and breeding them is difficult.