Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And are those hot chestnuts that I see ? ’ |
| 32 | I 've thumped it into your ears that she 's mine and she 'll remain mine . |
| 33 | Mr Delors abandoned a semi-social engagement in Watford to return to Brussels after a brief visit to Oxford , with accusations ringing in his ears that he had sabotaged the talks . |
| 34 | It is a universal characteristic of higher animals that they senesce ; that is , the likelihood of their dying in a given time interval , say a year , increases as they grow older , and often fecundity declines . |
| 35 | The integration of these systems followed gradually , and much later , when man learned to grow and store crops for his now domesticated animals that they might survive winter or drought at home . |
| 36 | So trained were these beautiful animals that they would trot from their stalls whenever they heard the fire alarm bell . |
| 37 | And when they are fleeing it is , of course , the rump regions of the other animals that they see most clearly . |
| 38 | But it is not only to the institutionalised abuse of animals that we must turn if we are progressively to disengage ourselves . |
| 39 | The greater understanding of the minds of our common farm animals that we gain from these experiments will undoubtedly be of use in designing housing systems which allow the animals both increased freedom , and increased control over their own lives . |
| 40 | There are also several creatures which , while they seem to be related to the segmented worms , are rather more complex in structure and quite unlike any other animals that we know , living or fossil . |
| 41 | Well looking at the individual breeds of animals that we 've got here , tell us about the basic breed line that you you keep on the farm here . |
| 42 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 43 | We are such thoroughly visual animals that we hardly realize what a complicated business seeing is . |
| 44 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 45 | ‘ The trouble with foresters , ’ said Kāli , ‘ is that they 're permanently hungry : feed them well and they 'll leave you alone : forget to and they 'll scour the entire village for evidence of green wood , musk , tār and all the other protected animals that you 're not supposed to kill . |
| 46 | Animals that you have captured specially for testing should be set free immediately afterwards in the place from which they were taken . |
| 47 | If you walk into the centre of the triangle the animals that you find there , for instance the spider with a Jewish seven-branched candelabra on its head , will be various " genetic compromises " between the three anchor biomorphs . |
| 48 | To the immune systems of the animals that it may infect , the resultant mutant virus will look as if it is rabies and so will trigger antibodies and generally stimulate immunity against the disease . |
| 49 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 50 | The ant repays the tree by sweeping it leaves free of fungi , by assaulting any leaf-eating animals that it encounters and by attacking any competing plant that dares come within chewing distance . |
| 51 | As the ash dries hard it is dug out for sale for the construction industry , yet another habitat is created With the layers of rock compacted over millions of years , this soft ash forms perfect artificial gifts for burrowing animals like rabbits For this young fox , what better place to practise digging than a soft cliff of ash , watched nervously by potential lunch Another predator not necessarily fond of the ash , but very keen on the animals that it attracts , is the polecat ferret Once used by poachers many of these agile hunters are now wild and range freely over the rough ground near power stations in search of prey Round at the top of the ash are the nest borrows of one of Britain 's rarest bird , the sand martin the monitor of this power station has ensured special in there so the birds can find ideal nest sites . |
| 52 | Every social , political , and box-office consideration suggested to the showmen that it would be unsatisfactory for the movies to remain a merely sectional entertainment . |
| 53 | He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all . |
| 54 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 55 | Will he give an assurance that he will sustain the generous funding of Northern Arts that he has managed in the past few years ? |
| 56 | Wild rabbits can be kept in captivity and eventually tamed , and it is , in fact , because this has happened through the centuries that we now see so many variations . |
| 57 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 58 | Be that as it may , the judges assumed this duty in 1292 and there are dicta from time to time in the succeeding centuries that it is one they have no power to give up . |
| 59 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 60 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |