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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A ladybird crawled up a dry stalk, then stepped delicately across to the oiled and battered stock of the rifle.
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Artificial selection, for instance, has demonstrated a genetic influence on the mating preferences of ladybirds.
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But the World Wide Fund have filmed our ladybird larvae.
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Majerus, O'Donald, and Weir, for instance, were interested by the genetical control of mate selection in ladybirds.
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No, there was Tumbleweed asleep under an old army greatcoat, a ladybird ambling about on his twitching nose.
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There is no scriptural basis for this, however, and ladybirds are not mentioned in the Bible.
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Wherever it went it dislodged the tiny blue butterflies in clouds, and scattered the glossy scarlet of the ladybirds.