21.   The author said her maternal instincts were awakened because three of her best friends are pregnant.

22.   The movie gives Foster a chance to put her maternal instincts to use.

23.   The maternal instinct is way down on the list of plant characteristics.

24.   We must believe that they are utterly out of touch with not only their maternal instincts but with their humanity.

25.   What Foster did get was a chance to put her maternal instincts to the test.

26.   But the call ended abruptly, provoking her maternal instinct.

27.   Desperately searching for a surrogate mother, zoo officials found a stray dog whose maternal instincts rose to the fore.

28.   Her three daughters and four sons - Marina, Mirzan, Melinda, Mokhzani, Mukhriz, Maizura and Mazhar - bring out her deepest maternal instincts.

29.   Leigh Yeoman, a mother of five in Charlotte, North Carolina, said reading about the dirty, hungry children kindled her maternal instinct.

30.   For many fans, it has become more than a toy, it engenders a relationship, appealing to the maternal instinct in women, Bandai claims.