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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In female flowers, the flies are wedged in tightly, the thorax pollen being rubbed off on to the stigma.
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The indirect muscles are usually the largest in the body, and are attached to the thorax and not to the wing-bases.
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The left arm bones were under the thorax .
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The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax .
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The Ventral Nerve-Cord consists of a series of ganglia lying on the floor of the thorax and abdomen.
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They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax .
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They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax , and black white-ringed antennae.