Example sentences of "fish that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We were asking Fish Sparks as we call him how he knew about the fish that swims up your pee and he said he 'd seen some fat explorer fellow on the box going on about it , which sounded likely enough . |
| 3 | So all the fish that use this system , whether in the rivers of West Africa or in South America , keep their bodies as stiff as ramrods and have to propel themselves by undulation of their fins . |
| 4 | Leaving the tank bare of decoration , while possible , can have adverse effects on large fish that like to dig . |
| 5 | Many offer aeration and flow control facilities to increase the amount of essential oxygen in your water ( PFK May ) Tuck them away in corners and use the outflow to provide currents for those fish that like them — or defect the outflow onto the tank side and disperse it , for fish that like calmer surroundings . |
| 6 | But now the water 's evaporating , killing the tiny fish that brought the birds here in the first place , and as the food source disappears , many birds are dying . |
| 7 | Fighting will probably break out and so the fish that becomes the sub-dominant one should be removed , not the dominant fish . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | was a fish that had jumped too far from the water . |
| 10 | I like fish that prefer a well-planted aquarium and the Siamese Tigers are no exception . |
| 11 | Not a single one of the millions of fish that fought their way up the river ever returns to the sea . |
| 12 | Another programme explores the fish that congregate around sunken wrecks off the British coastline . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It feeds upon flying insects and the tiny fish that inhabit the Aquasphere . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was also a brave warrior and killed the evil Great Fish that menaced his people by plunging a barb of ice down its throat and into its heart . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When Captain Cook visited the nephrite zone of the South Island of New Zealand , the Maori described jade as a fish that became stone only when brought to land . |
| 19 | The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’ |
| 20 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All of them sheep and cattle yes , even the savage beasts birds of the air and fish that make their way through the water . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Healthy specimens should be active and the body should be slightly convex and fish that show flat flanks should not be purchased . |
| 26 | Twenty years ago , it contained more than 400 species of haplochromines , small fish that kept the algae down and maintained the food chain . |
| 27 | He became very aggressive to any other fish that came near his cave entrance . |
| 28 | You will be buying fish that have been fully acclimatised to the British seasons , and which are long past the ailments associated with new imports . |
| 29 | It is quite possible that trace minerals and access to plants not available the rest of the year are essential for the fertilisation , hatching and development of fry in some species of fish that have proved difficult to breed in the past . |
| 30 | In August each year , the fish that have just reached adulthood travel towards the American coast . |