Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But references to meanings are generally based on certain accidental characteristics that act as contextual code signals in communication , and can hardly be treated as part of the " essential description " of their referents . |
| 2 | The family has probably always been a major source of violence — consider the wealth of folk stories and songs that deal with cruel sisters , feuding brothers , and infanticide — but now the violence may be more hidden , less open to immediate social control from the wider community , at least until it is too late . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He prefers stories about animals that act like human beings . |
| 6 | In addition , animals that differ from established allometries alert the biologist to the need for further study . |
| 7 | Animals that feed on static food have to move around to find it ; and , as we shall see , the best course of movement depends on the distribution of the food items in space . |
| 8 | With several separate aquaria , each kind of animal can be given the type of food it needs , and animals that feed on other animals can be kept apart . |
| 9 | Warm-blooded animals that live in cold water , such as whales , seals , and penguins , insulate themselves with layers of fat ( blubber ) , and reduce the blood flow to the surface . |
| 10 | It is only young , inexperienced animals that engage in spectacular jumps and other daring manoeuvres . |
| 11 | legs that parted on dark dishevelled gold |
| 12 | They could feed , but not resolve , grievances that arise in different parts of Britain . |
| 13 | Gasping at the totally unexpected movement , and the searing shock of his touch , Polly stared up into eyes that gleamed with cold fire . |
| 14 | He stopped abruptly , glaring down at her from eyes that looked like dark chasms . |
| 15 | ‘ You argue well , ’ agreed Hotspur , watching him keenly , and with a sudden remote spark in his eyes that looked like involuntary laughter . |
| 16 | TIP : Fish pox is a viral nuisance that covers your Koi ( usually the most expensive ones , it seems ) with unsightly whitish-pink blobs that look like melted candle wax . |
| 17 | Er these are sort of parties that start at midnightish and go on through the night . |
| 18 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 19 | For the next week we travelled across rolling , well-cultivated country intersected by steep ravines that developed into spectacular gorges at the edge of the plateau . |
| 20 | There are frogs that glide with big webs between their toes , tree-snakes with flattened bodies that catch the air , lizards with flaps along their bodies ; and several different kinds of mammals that glide with membranes stretched between their limbs , showing us the kind of way bats must have got their start . |
| 21 | The majority of the budget consisted of relatively uncontrollable expenditure ; uncontrollable in the sense of outlays for entitlement programmes , such as social security and unemployment benefits , and outlays that arose from previous electoral obligations . |
| 22 | It examines sounds and grammatical constructions that occur in natural languages , and how meaning is conveyed . |
| 23 | The data in Table 14 , which classify percentages of pregnancies that ended in still births by length of preceding pregnancy interval pooled according to country of study , seem to confirm the validity of the Hungarian findings for developing countries . |
| 24 | Although the instruction books that come with new machines recommend certain ways of setting such machines up , I have always liked to experiment across the range of possible settings . |
| 25 | Since they are hard to find , except in odd little shops that specialise in big underpants and sheepskin slippers for old people , they cost a pretty penny . |
| 26 | With most car makers chasing after baby-boomers , Buick decided to concentrate on the generation of buyers longing for ‘ traditional American elegance ’ , a euphemism for cars that appeal to upper-middle-income buyers in their 50s and 60s . |
| 27 | The motor industry thinks different , Retooling to make cars that run on low octane fuel will cost money . |
| 28 | It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol . |
| 29 | distinguishes between the public authority of the state as distinct from the relationships that prevail in civil society . |
| 30 | In order to check the relationships that exist between individual piece-parts and the original design , an assembly procedure is provided . |