Example sentences of "[n mass] [that] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fundamental point that you have to grasp is that parents want any transfers between their siblings that will result in a net gain for the , a , sorry , parents want any transfers between their offspring that result in a net gain for reproductive success . |
| 2 | If you are catching 6-pounders and want to catch 8lb bream , then move to another swim , or fish that swim at a different time . |
| 3 | Copepods Parabroteas sarsi and Pseudoboeckella poppei overwinter only as eggs in water bodies that freeze completely or become anoxic ; in large lakes they are active year-round , breeding in late winter to produce nauplii that feed on the early plankton bloom . |
| 4 | She found herself hurrying unnecessarily , weaving her way through the groups of people that drifted along the narrow paths , side-stepping the large and opulent prams that were moored to benches where smug mothers sat knitting and staring , dodging the children who chased each other in and out of the grown-ups ' legs . |
| 5 | Thomson has taken the issue further , arguing that many twentieth-century writers on social welfare issues have been misled into believing that recent developments represent an abrupt break with historical experience because of the peculiarly restrictive and individualistic support systems for elderly people that emerged in the late Victorian period . |
| 6 | Species that developed within a narrow environment such as the Galapagos Islands are being squeezed out . |
| 7 | Atlantic storm petrels Hydrobates pelagicus and Leach 's storm petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa are temperate species that breed within the arctic fringe only in Iceland and Labrador . |
| 8 | Of 47 species that occur in the Antarctic region , Wallwork ( 1973 ) considers about 70% endemic ; 17 species occur in continental and maritime Antarctica . |
| 9 | ‘ The limitations on artists who wish to make works that respond to the contemporary world of existing mass media images will be very confining indeed ’ , one critic warned . |
| 10 | For the same reason , fruit that ripens in a dry sunny autumn will often keep longest , whereas a wet season may shorten their storage life . |
| 11 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |