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Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Researchers studied the way the individuals explained and reacted to experiences such as disappointments, failures, losses and bad relationships.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: They were looking for correlations between those attitudes and the timing and cause of death.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: In another study, researchers from Ohio State University reported that the possible harm associated with pessimistic outlook - increased anxiety, stress, depression and ill health - appears greater than the protective good given by an optimistic outlook.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: "It may be more important that you are not a pessimist than that you are an optimist," said research psychologist Susan Robinson-Whelen, the study's lead author.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: The study is part of a larger project studying the effect of stress on adults taking care of a sick family member.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: In a land of few roads and phone lines, Mongolia's nomads - about 30% of the population -live the simple life of their great-great-grandparents.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Cattle, yak, two-humped camels, horses, goats and sheep provide everything from food to barter goods to transportation. But even by Mongolia's standards the past year was rough.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Following a leader, the birds move with military precision in a long line.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: As the leader lifts its wings, each bird behind it also lifts, almost in unison.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: For more than two hundred years Madame Tussaud's has entertained and amazed people of all ages, nationalities and from all walks of life.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: After all, where else can you see world leaders, movie stars, sporting heroes and other celebrities.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Employing the best sculptors to create the most life-like reproductions, Madame Tussaud's is particularly famous for its attention to details.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Most figures are sculptured from sittings with actual people, and each takes about 6 months to complete.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: All the historic characters have been created after attentive study of old portraits and sculptures.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: In the 1770 Marie Grosholtz (later to become Madame Tussaud) began making her wax portrait figures.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Her figures of French writer Francois Voltaire and US statesman Benjamin Franklin are on display today.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: In those days wax portrait figures were like the cinema or TV today - people knew the names of the famous and infamous people of the time but didn't know how they looked so were intrigued enough to see their wax portrait figures.

Укажите тип предложения: After surfacing with its catch, the bird closes its mouth and the water drains from the beak.

Укажите тип предложения: Despite its clumsy appearance, the pelican is an expert fisher.

Укажите тип предложения: Gaelic has not been the majority language of Scotland for around 1000 years, and is now spoken by only some one per cent of Scots, most living in the Western Isles.

Укажите тип предложения: He may do some head movements, inscribing a figure eight in the air to attract a female's attention.

Укажите тип предложения: Its ancestors appeared 30 to 40 million years ago.

Укажите тип предложения: Many people believe the pelican fills its sac with fish, then flies back to its nest with them.

Укажите тип предложения: Next, the male brings sticks, reeds, straws, grasses, leaves to his waiting mate who builds up the site.

Укажите тип предложения: Not noted for grace or beauty, the pelican looks like something Mother Nature put together for the fun of it.

Укажите тип предложения: Once he succeeds, he allows her onto the nest site that he has been protecting, and mating takes place.

Укажите тип предложения: One of the largest birds in the world, it appears clumsy even at rest.

Укажите тип предложения: Pelicans are sexually mature when they are two to four years old.

Укажите тип предложения: Religion in Scotland spans greater extremes than any other part of the United Kingdom except Northern Ireland.

Укажите тип предложения: Robert Burns wrote in it, and from the early 20th century, writers such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid sought to revive it as a literary medium.

Укажите тип предложения: Scotland has, however, a rich and varied brew of regional accents and dialects, and you may not find the response to your question so readily comprehensible.

Укажите тип предложения: Scots, as a tongue akin to but significantly different from English, was abandoned by the ruling class after the Union of 1707.

Укажите тип предложения: The pelican uses it to catch fish which it keeps in the strong sac that is the creature's trademark.

Укажите тип предложения: The sac conveniently folds under the beak when not in use.

Укажите тип предложения: This is not only untrue but impossible, for the weight in the sac would unbalance the bird and make the flight out of question.

Укажите тип предложения: Today, you may ask a question in standard English and be understood by any Scot.

Укажите тип предложения: Unlike many birds, a male pelican makes no fuss of mating.

Укажите тип предложения: When it dives, the pelican gulps fish and water into the sac which can stretch enormously.

Укажите тип предложения: When it sits or floats, its neck is bent in an awkward way.

Укажите тип предложения: When the nest is complete, the female lays two or three eggs and, for one month, the two take turns incubating them.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: People who tend to see their personal difficulties as a catastrophe are more likely to die young than others, a psychology study says.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Researchers found that a tendency to "catatastrophize", that is to see bad things that happen to you as part of global evil and pain - was linked to an increased risk of dying before the age of 65, especially in men.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: "An approach to life in which people catastrophize about bad events leads to untimely death decades later," concluded a research team headed by University of Michigan psychologist Christopher Peterson.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: The same correlation was not found in people who explain life difficulties in other ways, such as blaming themselves, researchers said.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Not all animals, however, were liable to legal responsibility and punishment. In some countries, bulls, horses and rams were under special protection and enjoyed immunity.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: If a man was attacked in his home and nobody could testify to his words, he could have a cat, a dog or a rooster as a witness.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: In the 13th century the pig was sentenced to hanging in France for eating its litter.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: In 1314 a bull was sentenced to the gallows for attacking a man.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: In 1796 a bull convicted of causing a cattle epidemic was buried alive in Germany. And this list can be prolonged.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: In 1713 termites were brought to trial in Brazil for eating the flour and destroying the wooden supports of a monastery cellar.