Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 61 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 62 | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes . |
| 63 | Sadly , if it was produced using the SEUCK utility it was n't tweaked enough — there 's no excuse for baddies that use such boring attack patterns . |
| 64 | They do n't do anything : it 's their currencies that do things . |
| 65 | Christ be in all my thinking about me , Christ be in all , Christ be the with eyes that see me , with ears that hear me , Christ ever be . |
| 66 | Prairie dogs , rabbit-sized rodents with short legs and small ears that live in vast communities on the grasslands of the American West , dig tunnels that may be as much as ninety feet long with short cul-de-sacs on either side . |
| 67 | This kind of problem has worried some people interested in animals that gain protection from predators by " mimicry " . |
| 68 | Will he further assure the House that the same strict safeguards and enforcement of rules on the protection and welfare of horses and other animals that apply in our country will apply in the EC area ? |
| 69 | At the end of the day it 's the animals that lose out . ’ |
| 70 | Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call . |
| 71 | But I also have in mind the massive destruction of delicate , irreplaceable ecosystems ( the rain forests of the world are the most obvious example ) , the massive pollution of the waters of the earth , the massive loss of top soil , the massive contribution to the greenhouse effect , and — lest we forget — the massive assault on human health that can be attributed directly and indirectly to the massive production and consumption of so-called ‘ food ’ animals that characterise our times . |
| 72 | The feet of the sauropod are small ( relatively speaking ! ) , with short , stubby toes , yet animals that walk on soft mud tend to have spreading feet to distribute their weight more evenly . |
| 73 | Similar to these are the filter-feeders , animals that pass a current of water through their bodies and take out of it all the food they need . |
| 74 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 75 | When the red deer samples are restricted to animals that reach breeding age , sex differences in the extent to which breeding success varies are accentuated ( Table 23.5 ) . |
| 76 | Remarkably , most animals that reach old age have each had , on average , the same number of heartbeats in their life . |
| 77 | Animals that fall into this general category include many territorial fish , such as the river bullhead , many reptiles , especially snakes , a few birds , such as the ruff , and many mammals , such as bears , pandas and raccoons . |
| 78 | Apart from the obvious welfare problems with snares , there is a wider perspective with regard to the number of badgers and other animals that get caught . |
| 79 | It is the animals that come here , and the Lapps just follow . |
| 80 | The teeth are not polished and hard like those of other animals that crush shells , such as the chimera , stingrays or lungfish , which are all modern fish , or the extinct placodonts , which are marine reptiles of the Triassic . |
| 81 | Since the nuclei from one animal contain identical genetic information , all the animals that develop from grafting nuclei taken from one toad into enucleated eggs will be identical . |
| 82 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 83 | To find the most advanced animals that show regular regeneration of lost organs , we must turn to the reptiles and , in particular , to the lizards . |
| 84 | Similarly , although they show remarkable powers of regeneration in the aquarium , there is a better chance of success if the animal is undamaged when purchased , so it 's wise to look for cuts and splits of any kind , and reject animals that show them . |
| 85 | He prefers stories about animals that act like human beings . |
| 86 | Presumably these sites were protected from the kinds of influence that normally destroy fish remains , such as the activity of scavenging animals that disarticulate the skeletons , or currents . |
| 87 | In America the neo-Lamarckian zoologist Alpheus Packard ( 1839–1905 ) studied the blind animals that inhabit many caves . |
| 88 | The species of plants and animals that inhabit them today have adapted , where adaptation was needed , only during the current ice age . |
| 89 | The technique of ‘ hunt the analogue ’ is a favourite one practised by palaeontologists , but it is certainly not a foolproof one , because there are many fossil animals that defy comparison with living organisms , and some analogues do not stand up to detailed scrutiny . |
| 90 | In addition , animals that differ from established allometries alert the biologist to the need for further study . |