Example sentences of "[n mass] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Painted to represent an aircraft that operated from USAAF Station 234 , Mount Farm , the fighter is adorned with the correct shade of PRU blue and carries the US Star 'n Bar insignia of the 7th Photographic Group , with the aircraft 's serial repeated in large yellow lettering across the fin and rudder .
2 This tome concentrated on the operational side of the type 's history , not just during World War Two , where the aircraft was undoubtedly the best long range fighting aircraft that served on all sides of the war , but through all the other conflicts in which the P-51 participated .
3 Some of the most difficult investigations involve aircraft that crash in deep water , frequently depriving the investigator of much of his evidence .
4 Above : Taken from a locally-based Jet Ranger , this photograph shows just six of the 11 airworthy Norseman aircraft that gathered at Red Lake to participate in Red Lake 's Norseman Celebration weekend on July 25/26 .
5 An example of the groundcrew 's efforts is well illustrated by their handling of the last aircraft that arrived on May 1 .
6 There was no sign , other than the winking of a small green light , that the aircraft that reverted to his control .
7 Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want .
8 The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ?
9 Scientists worldwide are facing the ever-increasing dilemma of how to handle vast quantities of data that advances in high technology have made it possible to generate .
10 This facility can be used to indicate individual items in a set of data that have to be treated in a special way , different from the majority of items in the set ; a special case is " undefined " items , which have not as yet been assigned a value .
11 Again , it is not totally inappropriate that this sort of overlap should exist since RMI must build upon the data that exist within the service ; it can not be separate and unrelated to that which currently exists .
12 Concentrating on maintaining a foothold on rocks worn smooth by winter torrents , I put up a startled grouse that exploded into flight .
13 When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris .
14 A SHEEP that behaves like a hound won first prize for fence-jumping at the Kent Dog Show .
15 In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs .
16 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 .
17 A shoal of small bream that runs into many hundreds will cover a lot of lake bed , possibly as much as fifty yards .
18 A small fish that strays near a sea anemone , one of the lowliest life forms , will be stung by a tentacle and held paralysed by it .
19 One kind produces reproductive cells ; another absorbs sustenance from captured prey ; another , heavily armed with particularly virulent stinging cells , trails behind the colony for up to fifty metres , paralysing fish that blunder into it .
20 The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’
21 He became very aggressive to any other fish that came near his cave entrance .
22 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 .
23 Huge numbers of the hatchlings are immediately eaten by the fish that swim in shoals around the reefs .
24 Their bowls will be brimming , they will head the queue for the sprat of meat or fish that floats in the soup gruel .
25 The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea .
26 The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! !
27 The snag is that small dace , bleak , and other small fish that feed at or near the surface , can devour much of this loose feed before it reaches bottom .
28 After that , the food chains ( see p 110 ) , can be very long ; fish such as sharks feeding upon fish , which feed on fish , which feed on fish that feed on plankton .
29 Numerous other predators and pathogens ( viruses , bacteria , protozoa , fungi and nematodes ) are also being investigated and the following are ready for evaluation in the field : Poecilia reticula and Aplocheilus spp. , fish that feed on mosquito larvae ; Bocillus sphaericus , a spore-forming bacterium that attacks mosquitoes ; Culicinomyces clavosporus , a fungus that kills mosquitoes ; and Romano- mermis culicivorax , a nematode worm that inhabits and kills mosquito larvae .
30 The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms .
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