Example sentences of "fish that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a need for fish that has been on the market a couple of days . |
| 2 | I can only wonder at the fish that would have been caught when the river had fully fined down . |
| 3 | I know from bitter experience there is nothing more frustrating that to keep catching fish that just miss the line when the fellow next to you only gets one , but its nose nudges over the line . |
| 4 | The amount of small fish that swim behing the breaker is enormous . |
| 5 | Then , how long before somebody proposes giving points for undersized fish that did not make the undersize fish measure ? |
| 6 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 7 | Ospreys do not nest in the Galloway lochs , although they do ‘ prospect ’ the area regularly : it seems likely that it is the lack of fish that keeps them away . |
| 8 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They saw her sometimes , watching them from the hillside as they carried peats or hay , wood or baskets of fish that they 'd not sell her ; and each one could feel the chill as she silently vowed vengeance on them all . |
| 11 | Poor Blair would then feel guilty , having missed a fish that Father would most certainly have landed . |
| 12 | They had been lured miles into the hills by reports of a distant loch , full of superb fish that had n't seen artificial fly or an angler for years . |
| 13 | The wave is a fish that always gets away . |
| 14 | I enjoy the actual hunt in the same way that a fisherman enjoys casting his fly or bait near a fish that he has seen in the hope of catching it . |
| 15 | It was their job to collect the fish that their menfolk landed and to bargain with the ’ jowters ’ who bought the fish . |
| 16 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 17 | Such occasions are not the rule though , for their whole design suggests a fish that is more at home when his hollow belly is gripping the bottom and the surging current is pushing down on his drooping snout and coursing past his streamlined body . |
| 18 | A very careful choice of rod should be made for a fish that fights as hard as barbel . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The more fish that are hooked and lost on inadequate tackle means an even more delicate approach is needed to hook these fish again , obviously with the same result , only faster . |
| 21 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 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 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 24 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 25 | Another programme explores the fish that congregate around sunken wrecks off the British coastline . |
| 26 | Its latest report lists two agents as likely to be widely used in the near future , Gambusio affinis , a fish that feeds on mosquito larvae , and Bacillus thuringiensis , a bacterium that kills mosquito larvae . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ministers have upheld a decision by the Directorate of Came and Freshwater Fish that the wolf , which has been killing sheep near Vergarshei in the south of the country , should be shot . |
| 29 | This is the Harlequin Principle and is vividly expressed on the body of the harlequin sweetlips , a fish that appears to the eye as a collection of coral reef growths . |
| 30 | This is even more confusing because the predator receives the impression that it is approaching a fish that is swimming straight towards it . |