1.   A gut-level fear reaction that comes out of a basic survival instinct and which operates independently of the intellect.

2.   Although it is a by-product of the survival instinct, this empathy is genuine.

3.   Deep in his sick brain his survival instinct warned him his injury was serious.

4.   Her tameness drops away like a spring moult, and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else.

5.   Her theory is that baby has a healthy survival instinct and is unlikely to attempt anything really dangerous.

6.   My survival instinct told me to get up and run.

7.   He has a strong survival instinct.

8.   And they said Lawrence had a strong survival instinct in a bad place.

9.   Balancing sniveling desperation with sheer survival instincts, her working-class heroine is the essence of mucking up and muddling through.

10.   Because of that survival instinct, in the millennium to come a curious question will occupy the minds of our descendants.