Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I ca n't understand is why you needed to know what star sign I am , or the characteristics that go with it . |
| 2 | Between them , these two events introduced a vast new audience to the wildly sensual new Brazilian dance called the lambada , and the songs that go with it . |
| 3 | Novo Nordisk 's pesticide Novodor FC , based on a subspecies of Bacillus thuringiensis , is highly specific and controls the larvae of the Colorado beetle without harming non-target insects or animals that feed on them . |
| 4 | Many other creatures feed on the animals that feed in this way , or upon the animals that feed on them . |
| 5 | The population of aphids is normally kept down by other animals that feed on them . |
| 6 | If phytoplankton , the microscopic free-floating algae that form the basis of the marine food chain , are adversely affected , then so will be the krill , the tiny animals that feed on them , and then fish , seabirds , seals and whales . |
| 7 | This attractive hypothesis has been extended to other groups of plants and their ‘ consumers ’ suggesting that under certain circumstances plants may benefit from those animals that feed on them and , indeed , may positively ‘ encourage ’ such herbivory . |
| 8 | The vegetation of the Kingdoms of the East is as varied as the animals that live in them . |
| 9 | Each salmon remembers the precise taste of the waters in which it hatched , a flavour derived from the mix of minerals in its mud and the plants and animals that live in it . |
| 10 | That 's perk , the perks and the bonuses that go with it but the contract , that 's what really counts is n't it ? |
| 11 | In the end , after much hesitation — all Agnese 's stuff looked so expensive ! — Ronni selected a blue silk jersey dress the colour of her eyes that clung to her in all the right places and looked sensational , and a pair of matching blue sandals that , miraculously , fitted . |
| 12 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 13 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 14 | The eyes that burned through her seemed to hold her like rivets . |
| 15 | The dark eyes that swept over her were shadowed by heavily mascara-darkened lashes which contrasted with the white teeth gleaming from behind brilliantly red lips which were too thin for real beauty . |
| 16 | The eyes that dwelt upon her had opened wide in surprise , perhaps even in amusement ; but the mind behind them was held and deeply exercised . |
| 17 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 18 | The high street stores , and even the designers , are finding there is great value in maintaining , shapes , colours and styles that worked for them in previous seasons . |
| 19 | The great pressure of the overlying sediments and the mineral-rich solutions that circulate through them cause chemical changes in the calcium phosphate of the bones . |
| 20 | You get one of the lads that works with me , if he catches three of them he says well I 'll have them for my dinner . |
| 21 | From this theory ( often called ‘ diacritical ’ ) of language and meaning it follows that to study how a language functions we must take as our object not individual signs in isolation , but the relationships that obtain between them . |
| 22 | In contrast both to traditional views of form , and to some Formalist statements about the device , it calls attention to the organization of the text in its totality , the structure of the text being simply the totality of the relationships that obtain within it . |
| 23 | And the words that went with it said that ‘ after enjoying a leisurely breakfast the eagle soared high over the park and set course north , towards Scotland , where golden eagles come from . |
| 24 | Using all the words that come to you spontaneously and in sequence " spray " your information ( names , facts , concepts ) , however irrelevant or bizarre , along lines that run outwards from your central idea . |
| 25 | You may feel that an idea of this sort is what will give you the most charge to get through the sixty , seventy or eighty thousand words that lie between you and a finished manuscript , let alone the weeks of researching that may be necessary and the dense hours of hard thinking . |
| 26 | Headlong she ran , heedless of the branches that caught at her , tearing at her dark stuff gown , ripping away the white cap that covered her hair . |
| 27 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 28 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 29 | Rudakov knew the pitfalls , knew of the knives that waited for him . |
| 30 | At any energy there will be at least one closed orbit , and this orbit is said to parent the family of non-closed orbits that librate around it . |