Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All these mammalian orders stem from small insectivorous animals that inhabited the forests while the dinosaurs were still living . |
| 32 | Animals that produced insufficient milk were sold . |
| 33 | Natural selection would then favour the animals that fought dangerously , which would increase in numbers . |
| 34 | Various animals that hunted in this country , foxes , in some places deer , hares are coursed er in some places . |
| 35 | On most of the walls there were stuffed heads ; lion , tiger , deer , something with horns like long corkscrews — and animals that looked so small and delicate … |
| 36 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 37 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 38 | In order to verify his electrical recording findings , Thompson made lesions in the cerebellums of animals that had learned the conditioned eyeblink response , Rabbits that learned with their left eye and had lesions made to the left half of their cerebellum no longer blinked when they heard the tone but continued to blink to the puff of air . |
| 39 | But animals that had received NGF as well lost fewer cells than those that had not . |
| 40 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 41 | No degranulation was noted in either transection or resection animals that had been treated with CR-1409 , but incipient vacuolation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum was a feature of all CR-1409 treated tissues as well as those of the PSBR group ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 42 | ‘ This was to prepare us should we come across animals that had been knocked down by cars . |
| 43 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 44 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 45 | They were prominent in the Silurian and Devonian , where they can be found with the fish-like animals that abounded in the fresh- and brackish water deposits of the time , although some of the Ordovician ones are in marine sediments . |
| 46 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 47 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 48 | And many will leave shows better informed about the animals that captured the prizes . |
| 49 | The ham for the Sarns ' table in Precious Bane presumably came from pigs kept in humane conditions , unlike the poor animals that inspired Mike Baxter to develop the new-style pig pens described in Quentin Seddon 's feature on page 58 . |
| 50 | The point of the story is that even though it was I that programmed the computer , telling it in great detail what to do , nevertheless I did n't plan the animals that evolved , and I was totally surprised by them when I first saw their precursors . |
| 51 | After the war , the succession of plants and animals that colonised these newly wasted sites was studied in detail by the London Natural History society ( LNHS ) . |
| 52 | Like animals that dwelt on land , the terrestrial flora also arose from ancestors that lived in the seas , a change that is known to have happened before the end of the Silurian . |
| 53 | Several hundred were swept downstream , and the settlers eagerly claimed those animals that refused to attempt the crossing . |
| 54 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
| 55 | Next , in the order in which she would need them , were her flannel petticoats , her cotton bodice and frilled drawers , her black woollen stockings , her long boned stays and the combinations that had so irritated her skin when she was small . |
| 56 | They blocked efficient economic combinations that posed no competitive risk to anyone , except the merging parties ' slower-footed rivals . |
| 57 | The air was full of white specks that got thicker as he watched . |
| 58 | Once the murder is done the hypocrisy must continue : in Marvell 's version of Machiavelli , ‘ The same Arts that did gain/A Pow'r must it maintain ’ . |
| 59 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 60 | By deliberately turning his back on the new spirit in art , Modigliani found himself excluded from most of the excitement and gaiety in the arts that flourished in spite of the war . |